Abandoned Footnotes
Stray thoughts, notes, and digressive ditties.
Friday, January 18, 2013
The Deification of Hugo Chávez
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I normally don’t write much about Chávez or Venezuelan politics here. I find it emotionally complicated for a variety of reasons; and at t...
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Friday, December 21, 2012
Endnotes
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It's the summer solstice here in Wellington, which always feels like the end of the year to me . The longest day should end the year, in...
Saturday, December 15, 2012
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: More on Benevolent, Malevolent, and Unconstrained Regimes
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(Quick graphical follow up to this post on malevolent democracies and benevolent autocracies ; part of this series , asymptotically approach...
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Of Malevolent Democracies and Benevolent Autocracies: A Very Short Quantitative History of Political Regimes, Part 1.9325
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(Continues my occasional series on the history of political regimes , part 1.9325. Lots of charts and graphs and a slideshow, using the Cin...
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Friday, October 26, 2012
“Ten thousand melodies cannot express our boundless hot love for you”: the Cult of Personality in Mao’s China
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(6,500 words on Daniel Leese’s fascinating book Mao Cult: Rhetoric and Ritual in China's Cultural Revolution [Cambridge University P...
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