Friday, June 24, 2011

The Irrelevance of Legitimacy

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(As I intimated a while ago, I’ve grown weary of the concept of legitimacy . This is an experiment in thinking about how one might understan...
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Wednesday, June 01, 2011

1989 and the Arab Revolutions of 2011 redux: A plea for theory-driven comparisons

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Marc Morjé Howard has a guest post up at The Monkey Cage summarizing some of the similarities and differences between the revolutions of...
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Sunday, May 29, 2011

Crowdsourcing a Democracy Index: An Update

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(Part 1 of possibly several, depending on time and mood) A couple of months ago , I set up a democracy ranking website using the Allouride...
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Sunday, May 15, 2011

Nauseating Displays of Loyalty (Towards a General Theory of Sycophancy and Related Phenomena)

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An anonymous reader points me to a very interesting paper by Victor Shih  on "' Nauseating' Displays of Loyalty: Monitoring the...
Saturday, April 30, 2011

Endnotes

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I know this blog has turned into the dictatorship channel recently (that's what I'm teaching at the moment; look out for it to turn ...

Qaddafi's Chickens

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[In 1977] the Libyan leader suggested that in order to achieve self-sufficiency every Libyan family had to raise chickens in the home. The c...
Friday, April 22, 2011

More on Inequality, Democracy, and Dictatorship: Is there a “Natural Rate of Inequality”?

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(Continues the discussion in this post , with more graphs, more data, more theory, and more verbiage. Mostly exploratory, considering furthe...
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