The Monkey Cage

I take it you are looking for English-language blogs - otherwise I know a handful of Swedish academic bloggers blogging in Swedish, but strangely only one other Dane who has resigned from the blogoverse, incidentally.

Jacob: We are looking for English-language blogs. This isn’t to give short shrift to our Swedish colleagues. It just reflects our own audience.

I already thought my daily reading list was already relatively massive. I need to also update my blogroll (and post more of course).

A few others:

Theory Talks - http://www.theory-talks.org
Stephen Walt -http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/

There is also this wiki list of Political theory and science blogs:

http://www.academicblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Political_Science_and_Political_Theory

I expected so - but just in case. :-)

Perhaps it’s a bit of self-promotion, but perhaps I can add mine to the list?

I’m an MIT graduate student who moonlights as one of a handful of Japanese politics bloggers.

http://www.observingjapan.com

More shameless self-promotion: my (relatively new) blog on social networks and American political science: http://networkedpolitics.blogspot.com/

Also, check out Drew Conway’s blog on networks, computational political science, and security studies Zero Intelligence Agents: http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/agc282/zia/

I blog about Latin American politics. For reasons unknown, there are very few political science professors who do so.

http://blogs.middlebury.edu/presidentialpower/

Thanks for the posting Networked Politics! I will add one more…

Chris Albon (grad student at UC Davis) has a great blog on international security issues related to health and medicine

http://warandhealth.com

Let’s see, comparing your list with my blogroll I come up with these additions:

Public Reason, http://publicreason.net/

Melissa Harris-Lacewell, http://melissaharrislacewell.com/Blog/

Colin Farrelly, http://colinfarrelly.blogspot.com/

Russell Arben Fox, http://inmedias.blogspot.com/

Patrick Deneen, http://patrickdeneen.blogspot.com/

Will Roberts, http://acceleratethecontradictions.blogspot.com/

Michael Munger, http://mungowitzend.blogspot.com/

Two more:

http://inmedias.blogspot.com/

http://uselesstree.typepad.com/useless_tree/

Thanks for the shoutout to abstractpolitics.com. My goal for the site is different from other political science blogs—I don’t write commentary, I post 1-2 page critical summaries of recent journal articles. The hope is to make it easier to stay on top of what’s coming out in the top journals.

I’m always looking for contributors, especially folks from subfields other than my own.

StochasticDemocracy.com

The author is a undergraduate math major, but it seems to all be quantitative political science(Regressions and all).

Doesn’t get updated too often though.

And this…

http://www.everydaypoliticsblog.com/

You might be interested in my blog. It focuses on semi-presidentialism and developments in countries with semi-presidential constitutions - www.semipresidentialism.com

I’m a professor of international relations who runs a security-oriented blog called Security Dilemmas at securitydilemmas.blogspot.com

Thanks for putting this list together..you’ve helped me find some gems. I’m a political scientist who contributes to a blog called
ThickCulture. It’s hosted by the American Sociological Association. For those of you with cross-disciplinary inclinations, you should check out the other blogs hosted by the ASA. Sociological Images is particularly good.

here’s one from our friendly neighbor to the north, currently a post-doc at UBC:

http://ashrewdnessofapes.blogspot.com/

Thanks to you all. If you come across others, please let me know and I’ll add them to the blogroll. Self-promotion is always encouraged.

Hey, how about a little love over here, yo!

Donald Douglas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science
Long Beach City College

Blog: American Power

http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/

Regular contributor: Pajamas Media

A great list! I fear my blogroll will have to expand too now.

I guess I’ll propose my own blog for the list: http://polemarchus.net

Andrew Gelman also posts at 538

There are some definitional issues with this bleg, if I may say so respectfully. First, perhaps not all “academic political scientists” (i.e. poli sci faculty or grad students) who blog are doing mainly “academic blogging.” (At least one I’m aware of — I’m not going to name names — is doing a bit of academic blogging and a lot of fairly partisan politics/partisan commentary on current events. I’m also aware of another blog which is about 50/50 academic blogging and partisan commentary. Of course, one person’s partisan commentary may be another’s dispassionate analysis, so that’s another issue.)
Then there’s the problem of defining “academic political scientist” strictly to mean someone in a university setting, which rules out: 1)PhDs in think tanks and/or government who blog; 2) unemployed PhDs who blog; and 3)possibly some other categories (consultants? independent scholars? freelance writers? who may be political scientists by training) as well.
Finally, there’s the problem of defining what kind of PhD makes one a ‘political scientist’. Some people have PhDs in Public Policy, or Organizational Behavior, or Political Economy, or Mass Communications, or International Relations, but many of them, if pressed, would probably identify themselves as political scientists. But it’s not clear from the bleg whether only someone whose PhD is labeled “political science” or “government” fits your definition of political scientist. (It would be interesting to know how many APSA members’ degrees say “political science” and how many say something else.) I think you might want to clarify some of these definitional issues.
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(All that said, the blog called Notes on Politics, Theory and Photography definitely qualifies as a blog by an academic political scientist, and I don’t think it’s on the list yet.)

LFC: Notes on Politics, Theory, and Photography is listed under the blogger’s name (Jim Johnson).

As for your definitional queries, I can only say that the phrase “academic political scientist” was intended to denote people with academic training in political science, not people who hold positions in the academy. It is entirely possible that someone with a degree in political economy or other fields would qualify, depending on their specific areas of expertise.

I deliberately didn’t want to get into the definitional particulars because I wanted to cast as wide a net as possible.

If there are other blogs that you think might fit the bill, please suggest them. Thanks.

French poli-sci blogs, all academic:

http://politbistro.hypotheses.org/ (doctoral students)
http://bouillaud.wordpress.com/ (professor)
http://laurentbouvet.wordpress.com/ (professor)
http://xaviercrettiez.typepad.fr/ (professor)
http://yannickrumpala.wordpress.com/ (lecturer)
http://yvessurel.blogspot.com/ (professor)
http://vedel.blogspot.com/ (researcher)

Sources:
http://politbistro.hypotheses.org/blogs
http://wiki.henryfarrell.net/wiki/index.php/Academic_blogs_in_French

Methodology undergrad here. Can anyone distinguish what blogs on here focus on methodology (game theory or regressions)?

Some more self-promotion:

http://learningaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/

Thanks for the support, Jacob and Laura.

Thanks for the list! I have been looking for a collection of links like this one.

And yet more self-promotion: I am a political science graduate student and keep a blog at http://kstrump.blogspot.com.

Jim Ceaser, Andy Busch and I have a new book on the 2008 election. We’re using the blog to supplement the book with further analysis and information. URL is http://epicjourney2008.blogspot.com/

One more time with ThickCulture. The last comment had a broken link :-(

electionupdates.caltech.edu

And I agree with one poster above—just because a political scientist has a blog does not therefore make the blog about politics or political science.