Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Endnotes: Solstice Edition

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It's the summer solstice here in New Zealand, a day which always seems full of meaning: a more suitable end for the year than the astron...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Flattery Inflation

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Reading Aloys Winterling’s entertaining revisionist biography of Caligula (which combines my interests in crazy dictatorships and the class...
Monday, November 14, 2011

Exit, Voice, and Democracy

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Speaking of exit, voice, and domination , here's a very interesting paper by Mark E. Warren  in the latest APSR: Voting with Your Feet: ...
Monday, October 31, 2011

Endnotes

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I haven't done one of these in a couple of months. So, for your Monday (or Sunday - we're ahead of the world here in NZ) reading pl...
Friday, October 28, 2011

Spaces of Appearance, Spaces of Surveillance, and #OccupyWallStreet

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(Warning: contains self-promotion and potentially hazardous levels of theory). It is a bit of an occupational hazard for bloggers that...
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Thursday, October 13, 2011

The Little Ice Age and Other Unintended Consequences of the Conquest of the Americas

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I recently read Charles C. Mann's 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created , which I highly recommend. It's the best kind of ...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Technical Request

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Dear readers, I'm currently the secretary of the New Zealand Political Studies Association . We are a small professional association (...
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Sunday, September 25, 2011

On the Meaning of Political Support

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In the closing pages of Eichmann in Jerusalem , Hannah Arendt notoriously claimed that “politics is not like the nursery; in politics obed...
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