Abandoned Footnotes

Happy solstice, everyone! I have not been very consistent this year about writing in this blog, despite my resolution last year . After a ...

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...

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...

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...

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

Happy solstice, everyone! It’s been a good year here at Abandoned Footnotes HQ. On the more academic side of things, three papers deriv...

Another year is coming to an end, another  Ragnarok deferred ; a time to take stock and give thanks. It’s been a very busy year. I spent six...

It's the solstice: time to take stock, and (in the Northern hemisphere, where I am right now) give thanks to the guardians of Asgard for...

Jay Ulfelder kindly points his readers to my (recently updated!) working paper on “ The Irrelevance of Legitimacy ” in a recent post whe...

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

(Warning: contains self-promotion and potentially hazardous levels of theory). It is a bit of an occupational hazard for bloggers that...

Dear readers, I'm currently the secretary of the New Zealand Political Studies Association . We are a small professional association (...

Almost without really meaning to, I've joined the ranks of the twitterati (partly I wanted to keep up with events in Tunisia and Egypt, ...