Abandoned Footnotes
Stray thoughts, notes, and digressive ditties.
Friday, July 31, 2015
Propaganda as Signaling
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In a lovely piece published nearly three decades ago , the French historian Paul Veyne noted that much “propaganda” art throughout history ...
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Tuesday, June 09, 2015
What do people think of democracy around the world? And does it matter?
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(Warning: A long and rambling graph-heavy post on public opinion by someone who has never worked with public opinion data before, and who is...
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Principal-agent problems in the Soviet Union, circa 1990
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Widespread fictitious economic accounting was foiling planners to the point that the KGB employed its own spy satellites to ascertain the s...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Electoral Parodies
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I've been reading a lot about various dictators this summer. And again and again I am struck by the existence of what one might call “e...
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Thursday, January 29, 2015
The Saudi Monarchy as a Family Firm
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(I normally don’t write on current events, since I’m not a specialist in the politics of any country, but I had just finished Michael Herb...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Political Instability at a Glance
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(A graph-heavy post on the post-WWII history of political instability.) (Update 1/24/2014: Thanks to Profs. Gleditsch, Goemans, and Chio...
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