Abandoned Footnotes
Stray thoughts, notes, and digressive ditties.
Monday, February 20, 2012
A Very Short Quantitative History of Democracy, Dictatorship, and Other Political Regimes, Part I
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(Part I of probably two). Readers will have to forgive me, but I find dataset blogging addictive. One can use historical datasets to t...
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012
The Half-life of Leaders and the Half-life of Regimes
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Thinking back on the last couple of posts , a couple of questions arise naturally. First, there is the question of the survival of regime...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Comparative Political Leader Survival, 1946-2008
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After playing around with Jay Ulfelder's data on the survival of democracy in the previous post , it occurred to me that I have not ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
How Fragile is Democracy? A Footnote on Jay Ulfelder’s Dilemmas of Democratic Consolidation
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Stories about what makes democracy stable tend to take one of two forms. The first stresses socialization, learning, and the gradual develop...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Belief and Action
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(Warning: somewhat abstruse and probably wrong philosophical argument. Follows up in a more philosophical vein some of the themes in the ...
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Sunday, January 01, 2012
The Complexity of Emotion in Authoritarian States
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Seeing the videos of crying North Koreans after the death of Kim Jong-il, many people gravitate to the question of whether the emotion on...
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