Sunday, December 31, 2017

Endnotes

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There was a bit more activity on this blog than last year , though still very little (only 5 posts); my New Year’s resolution is to write mo...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

Manchu Status Taxes

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The Manchus had their own aristocracy of a kind, formed from the descendants of Nurhaci and other famous warriors, and from the powerful C...
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Utopia and Revolution

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(Mostly a disorganized discussion of Richard Stites’ superb Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolu...
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Monday, October 02, 2017

The quantification of power: some thoughts on, and tools for, measuring democracy

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(More substantive content soon! This is mostly of interest to political scientists, R users, and people concerned with the measurement of d...
Monday, February 13, 2017

Propaganda as Literature: A Distant Reading of the Korean Central News Agency's Headlines

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A rather long post  on reading the Korean Central News Agency's headlines I am not putting directly on this blog because it contains in...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

Big Lies at the Monkey Cage

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No, not that post . Just me talking about the uses of lies in politics , which may interest some readers here. Posts at the Monkey Cage a...
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Saturday, December 31, 2016

Endnotes

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Not much happened on this blog this year, except for two announcements (for my new book and a software package for extending the Unified D...
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Friday, December 09, 2016

New Book: Non-Democratic Politics

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My new book, Non-Democratic Politics: Authoritarianism, Dictatorship, and Democratization has been out for a few weeks ( Palgrave , Amazon ...
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Thursday, March 24, 2016

Artisanal Democracy Data: A Quick and Easy Way of Extending the Unified Democracy Scores

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(Apologies for the lack of posting - I've been finishing some big projects. This is of interest primarily to people who care about quant...
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