Abandoned Footnotes
Stray thoughts, notes, and digressive ditties.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Political Instability at a Glance
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(A graph-heavy post on the post-WWII history of political instability.) (Update 1/24/2014: Thanks to Profs. Gleditsch, Goemans, and Chio...
Monday, January 05, 2015
The Revolution as a Drinking Party
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A revolution may not be a dinner party , but they sometimes involve a great deal of partying. From Stephen Kotkin’s recent biography of Stal...
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Sunday, December 21, 2014
Endnotes: Solstice Edition
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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...
Tuesday, December 09, 2014
Vagueness and Political Regimes
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I've been recently re-reading Juan Linz 's Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes , a book I didn't appreciate enough when I fi...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
The Good Tsar Bias
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Ian Kershaw's remarkable book The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich is a really clever piece of public op...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014
The Tedium of Authoritarianism
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As part of my research on Francisco Franco , I recently had the opportunity to spend some time at the Archivo General de la Administración...
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Thursday, March 13, 2014
The Varieties of Electoral Experience
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(Some commentary on recent elections in North Korea, and on electoral rituals generally) As many readers will know, North Korea just had a...
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