Tuesday, July 10, 2012

New Book: A Stranger's Knowledge: Statesmanship, Philosophy, and Law in Plato's Statesman

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Due to a vaguely superstitious reluctance to make an announcement until I had the final physical copies in my hands, I neglected to announce...
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Monday, May 21, 2012

Democracy and development since 1950 in one chart

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My previous post , in one chart: (Click here for larger size). Bubbles to the right are more democratic countries, measured using the U...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

A Very Short Quantitative History of Political Regimes, Part 1.75: Democracy and Development

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(Statistician General’s warning: no significance tests or confidence intervals were harmed in the writing of this post. Appropriate model a...
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Saturday, May 05, 2012

Educational software I wish existed: StackExchange for teaching in the Humanities and Social Sciences

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Here’s an idea I’ve been mulling over for the past week. (Mulling over enough to have spent many hours in an abortive attempt to create a ...
Saturday, April 28, 2012

The Kantian Logic of Democratization: A Footnote on Levitsky and Way’s Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War

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(A review of Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way’s Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War , Cambridge University Pre...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Charles Tilly's Poetry, and the Use of Models in the Social Sciences

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In a 1991 review essay discussing several books by James C. Scott , the late Charles Tilly gets cranky with rationalistic explanations of be...
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Thursday, April 05, 2012

The Limits of Protest in Complex Societies

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(I’ve been invited by the  Society for Philosophy and Culture  here at  VUW  to host a session of their  Symposiumon “Protest” on 5 April ...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Crowdsourcing a Democracy Index – 2012 edition

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It’s that time of the year again – time to crowdsource a democracy index. First, a bit of context. Last year, I had the idea of using th...
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