Abandoned Footnotes
Stray thoughts, notes, and digressive ditties.
Friday, August 10, 2012
Rawlsian Legislatures: A Modest Proposal
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(Attention conservation notice: various harebrained schemes I cooked up preparing for a seminar on Rawls that appear to structurally mimic...
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Monday, August 06, 2012
Mixed Constitutions vs. Mixed Economies (or, Ancient and Modern Liberalisms)
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(Attention conservation notice: Inspired by a student’s comment a while back, this has languished in my drafts folder. Contains speculative ...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
New Book: A Stranger's Knowledge: Statesmanship, Philosophy, and Law in Plato's Statesman
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Due to a vaguely superstitious reluctance to make an announcement until I had the final physical copies in my hands, I neglected to announce...
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Monday, May 21, 2012
Democracy and development since 1950 in one chart
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My previous post , in one chart: (Click here for larger size). Bubbles to the right are more democratic countries, measured using the U...
Thursday, May 17, 2012
A Very Short Quantitative History of Political Regimes, Part 1.75: Democracy and Development
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(Statistician General’s warning: no significance tests or confidence intervals were harmed in the writing of this post. Appropriate model a...
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Saturday, May 05, 2012
Educational software I wish existed: StackExchange for teaching in the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Here’s an idea I’ve been mulling over for the past week. (Mulling over enough to have spent many hours in an abortive attempt to create a ...
Saturday, April 28, 2012
The Kantian Logic of Democratization: A Footnote on Levitsky and Way’s Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War
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(A review of Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way’s Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War , Cambridge University Pre...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Charles Tilly's Poetry, and the Use of Models in the Social Sciences
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In a 1991 review essay discussing several books by James C. Scott , the late Charles Tilly gets cranky with rationalistic explanations of be...
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