Abandoned Footnotes

Stray thoughts, notes, and digressive ditties.

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Charisma and Representation

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(Reflections on the nature of charisma and charismatic authority. Applications to current events and people are left as an exercise for the ...
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Friday, January 19, 2018

Democracy Data, Updated

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(Of interest mostly to political scientists or other users of country-year democracy data) Quick announcement: I’ve just updated my democr...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Stalin as Reviewer #2

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(Of historical interest mostly, though I think it’s a good story). Most people reading this blog probably know about Trofim Lysenko , who,...
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Thursday, January 11, 2018

Flattery at the Monkey Cage

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I have piece at the Monkey Cage on what flattery in authoritarian regimes might say about flattery in the Trump administration . There is pr...
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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