Abandoned Footnotes

After playing around with Jay Ulfelder's data on the survival of democracy in the previous post , it occurred to me that I have not ...

Stories about what makes democracy stable tend to take one of two forms. The first stresses socialization, learning, and the gradual develop...

 (Warning: somewhat abstruse and probably wrong philosophical argument. Follows up in a more philosophical vein some of the themes in the ...

Seeing the videos of crying North Koreans after the death of Kim Jong-il, many people gravitate to the question of whether the emotion on...

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...

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

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