The Monkey Cage
Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage. - H.L. Mencken
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A Lamentation of Google et al.
Why Is This Man Glowering When He Should Be Smiling? Conservatives, Liberals, and the Happiness Gap
Is This the Phone I Should Buy?
Self-Segregation and Polarization among Blog Readers
Hypocrisy
Can they really do that?
Who Thinks Obama Isn't a Christian?
Ranking states by the liberalism/conservatism of their voters
APSA, New Orleans, and Gay Rights
R.I.P., Uga VI
Can Condi Rice Rock?
Nixon and Elvis: The Rest of the Story
Immigration and Crime
Academics and Op-Eds
"Though left-handers comprise just 10% of the population, they are dominating presidential politics." The media finally catch up to "The Monkey Cage."
Political Scientist killed in Iraq
PS in the (sort of) MSM
Charles Whittaker Watch
Obama on rich liberal political donors
Columbia Professor in Noose Case Is Fired on Plagiarism Charges
The Worst Sounds
Variable 666
More on Race and Voting
The Incredible Vanishing War
George Carlin on Voting
Does Racial Prejudice Hurt Black Candidates?
R.I.P., George Carlin
Racial Attitudes and Vote Choice
R.I.P., Charger
The Perils of "Applied" Research in Academic Settings: Syracuse University Puts the Kibosh on Its Survey Research Operation
Help for Beleaguered Political Scientists
Campaign Finance and Partisan Polarization
Isn't the last of these a Maurice Sendak book?
Move over APSR?
Andrew Gelman and Philip Klinkner to Join The Monkey Cage
The Nixon We Never Knew
Public Opinion about the Rights of Guantanamo Detainees
Tony Schwartz
Who Were the Reagan Democrats?
"But viewed in retrospect, it is clear that it has been quite predictable"
Walk, Barbara Mikulski, Walk!
Court Affirms Habeas Corpus for Guantanamo Detainees
The Bicycle as an Engine of Human History
The Top Political Science Paper on SSRN
Legitimating the EU
Does Oil Hurt Women's Rights?
Anti-Immigrant Violence in South Africa
The Home Field Advantage
President Dukakis says: be careful in interpreting early opinion polls
Clinton vs. Obama, by demographics, by state
The Importance of Selective Exposure
Fraud in Science: Reality Mirrors Art Mirrors Reality
Non-strategic behavior of political parties when deciding when incumbents should retire
The Playing Field Shifts: Predicting the Seats-Votes Curve in the 2008 U.S. House Election
Watching the Sausage Get Made: The Selection of a Presidential Running Mate
But Commencement Has Always Been Such a Joyous Occasion!
Saudi political scientist arrested by secret police
The Dollars and Sense of Public Financing of Professional Sports Arenas
Tom Lehrer on Political Science
Very
Good Advice
Bloomberg for VEEP?
Lamenting Culinary Choices in DC
Touché
Rich county, poor county
Pew Center Muslim-American Survey
Early Admissions
Los Angeles Times Op-Ed
The Assimilation of American Immigrants
Are Jews Drifting to the Right?
Public Support for Gay Marriage
SNL's Hillary Lampoon
Studies of the Effects of Voter Suppression?
The Dismal Economics of Big-Time College Sports
Good Journalism about Social Science
Humor for Graduate Students
Seven Decades of World Politics as a Food Fight
On the Road Again
Pax Corleone
"The Daily Show" as Journalism -- Or Not
Helping Hands for George Stephanopoulos
An Engineer's Guide to Cats
Will Obama Unify the Democratic Party?
On the Relationship between Journalism and Social Science
Demography Is Not King, or Why David Brooks Is a Hedgehog, Not a Fox
The Worst City in the U.S. for Asthma Sufferers Is ...
Great Quotes from Modern Composers
Take Me Out to the Ball Game: The Best Place to Watch Major League Baseball Is ...
Who Knew? Paying Taxes is Voluntary.
The Dakota Effect
Has Obama Been Hurt by Jeremiah Wright and "Bitter-gate"? Not really.
Charles Tilly Has Died
Why Do People Fight in Civil Wars?
Financial Markets for Dummies
AAPOR Report on Polling and Cell Phones
Estimating the Cost of Campaign Advertising: A Cautionary Note
Ethan at 3 Months
Annals of French Culture
Negative Advertising – The Gift That Just Keeps On Giving
Was There Bias in Media Coverage of the March to War in Iraq?
A "Monkey Cage" Exclusive: MRI of the Feline Brain
Momentum and Legitimacy in Presidential Primaries
Poor Rural Voters (Update)
Advertising Your Legislation on Youtube
New blog
A Different Take on Sociotropic and Pocketbook Voting
Baracky: The Movie
Why Should There Be a Tax Deduction for Charitable Giving?
The Sources and Limits of Obama’s Rhetorical Power
Poor Rural Voters
Passover Greeting
The Political Behavior of Veterans
The AAPSS Has a Blog
Biffos and Buffalos
The Military as a Macho Culture -- or Not
What If the US Treated Mexico Like Europe Treated Spain?
Going Back to "Lucky" Lottery Stores
Hangover Treatments
Reassessing the Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
Implicit Prejudice Revealed: Opposition to a Woman President
Polling on Boycotting the Beijing Olympics
Olympic politics
Public Opinion on Trade, or Why Mark Penn Had to Go
The Media and Public Acceptance of Conspiracy Theories: The Case of 9/11
More on networks and donations
A Tournament of Party Strategies
Annals of Improbable Research
Networks in politics
Red State Blue State Paradox as a Graph
Is the American Public Realist?
Gatekeepers in the Press: Photo Coverage of Katrina
Pitfalls of Election-by-Mail
Piecework, Political Economy and the Internet
Book Cover Design - Need Your Help
Fafblog is back
Safire's Political Dictionary
Everyone Realizes the Challenges of Causal Inference
Texas' Ten Percent Solution: Good News or Bad News for Minorities?
Did the Bush Administration Buy Votes with FEMA Aid?
Fathers, Daughters, and Roll Call Voting in the U.S. Senate
Do Female Legislators Affect State Spending?
Forecasting the Electoral College
The Imagined Community in Europe and the United States
Oh, No!!!
Does Email Increase Turnout?
Shameless Self-Promotion
Does Electing Judges Undermine Judicial Legitimacy?
The Active Fantasy Lives of Libertarians
The perquisites of office
Ticket-scalping, or is it gambling? Nope, it's free enterprise, NCAA-style
Covering Bad News -- No Longer Forbidden in China
Who Do You Trust To Fix America: Obama or McCain?
An Awareness Test
Games terrorists play
Hedge Hogs
Thumbs Down? Opponent Dissatisfaction among Obama and Clinton Supporters
What Is the Median Income in the United States?
All in the Family: How Political Leaders Secure Their Regimes
The Obamaniacs Strike Back on Race
Delegate Poaching in Colorado?
Beyond Red and Blue: A Patchwork Nation
Campaign Buttons Revisited
Status, power, and aphrodisia
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Often in error, but never in doubt -- The (in)accuracy of pundits' poliical predictions
What's In Candidate Websites?
Who Is the Most Powerful Member of Congress?
But for the Grace of God &c
2025: The Wrong Number
The White House Press Corps: Lapdogs, Watchdogs, or Mutts?
The Joy of Bike Racing -- A Photo Essay with a Scary Video at the End
Rating the Performance of the 50 State Governments
Deliberation vs. participation in blogs
Rap Music Triggers Latent Sexism
Campaign Rhetoric and Political Reality, Part 3
Campaign Rhetoric and Political Reality, Part 4
The Paradoxes of Public Opinion about Global Warming
The Political Valence of DNA Testing
Campaign Rhetoric and Political Reality, Part 1
Campaign Rhetoric and Political Reality, Part 2
The Facts about Doctoral Degree Completion in Political Science
Will the Divisive Democratic Primary Hurt the Nominee in November?
Kenya electoral train wreck update #3
Message to Ralph Nader
Freak-Freakonomics
Campaign Appeals and Legislative Action
Academic ethics and social science
Early Returns in Texas
Superdelegate Mashup
Let's Celebrate U.S. Electoral Politics, Just for a Moment
GOP Veepstakes
How the Way We Organize Information Can Shape Our Behavior -- A New Application of an Old Idea
Election08Data Blog
The
real
reason why Dani Rodrik is not a political scientist
Two Thirds Empty or One Third Full?
The Best Cartoon of This Campaign Season
The Best College Team Nicknames
Pat Schroeder Strikes Back at Harvard and Congress
Drezner on political science methodology and Walt/Mearsheimer
How, If at All, Should We Evaluate Flawed Historical Heroes?
Your Very Own Church Sign Generator
The 2008 Democratic Veepstakes, Round 2
The blogging life
Do Conservatives Self-select Away from Academic Careers?
Lend me your Earmarks
Dominant Party Strategies -- Downsian Defense v. Rikerian Offense
PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL and NUDGE
Race, Gender, Obama, Clinton
Campaign Posters from Peter Max to Socialist Realism
Skin Color Effects on Political Attitudes -- NOT
2007: "A Notable Setback for Global Freedom"
My only love sprung from my only hate!
No Comment
That Is SO Interesting (Or Not) ...
Jennifer Hochschild Enters "The Monkey Cage"
Obama, Clinton, and Contingency in Political Science
Conservative Dominance of Political Talk Radio
Think Tank Sociology
Why Are These People Smiling?
The Flag as a Bearer of Quantitative Information
Michael "The Body" Munger
Counting Delegates Under the Other Party's Rules
More on Academic Attire
Is the OLS Regression Model Dead in Political Science?
Uno -- A Great Beagle
On the other hand
Mapping the DC Primary Results
Who Cares About a Little Cat Fur in the Bun If It Keeps the Ground-up Rat Out of the Hotdog?
Some Patterns in the "Potomac Primary" Results
Leonardo, Queen Elizabeth II, Stalin, Marx, and Nietzche Sitting at a Table with Lincoln, Mao, and Li Bai, Just Behind Einstein, Darwin, and Shirley Temple: Huh?
If the primaries (and caucuses) were the general election...
Is Joe McCarthy Still With Us? Political Intolerance and the Sense of Repression in the U.S.
A State-by-State Analysis of Obama's Performance to Date
The Left Side of the Political Spectrum
10,000 years
Accounting for terrorism
Ready, Aim, Fire: 250 Members of the House, 55 Senators, and 1 Vice President Agree on Something that Does Not Matter
D'Gary
NEWSWEEK Goes Neuropolitical
Cancel My Account
0-for-1
How To Give a Good Talk
A Dress Code for Academics
The Democratic Veepstakes, 2008 Edition
Don't Worry, Be Happy: A Defense of the Big Chain Bookstores
We Welcome Henry Farrell to the Cage
Rational irrationality
Conservative and liberal bloggers
Are Books on the Way Out?
Q: What's the best way NOT to stimulate the economy?
Looking Ahead to November
Is there a liberal bias among US newspapers?
It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
What a Flake
Maybe Al Gore Was Right
Hoisted from Comments: Chris Kennedy v. Matt Jarvis on the Impact of the Youth Vote
State-by-State Blogosphere Political Commentary Roundup -- Super Tuesday Edition
The Catch That Saved the U.S. Economy
Off to the (Congressional) Races
Plagiarism and Dub-Pubbing in Science
The Odd Delegate Selection Rules
Another Brief Stop at the Intersection of Politics and Entertainment
Political Theater
The $$ Campaign
Paying for Justice
Dopamine: The Electoral Connection
Who Benefits (and Who Doesn't) from Bans on Affirmative Action in College Admissions?
"He is the senator with the most liberal voting record."
Hillary Boy
Will Young Voters Be Decisive? -- 2008 Edition
Economic Self-interest and the Super Bowl: Let's Cheer for a Giant Victory
935 Bush administration misstatements about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and ties to Al Qaeda, 2001-2003
Friend Sense
Do war casualties affect elections?
Books that make you dumb
Conditional electoral gambling, I mean investing
The Black American political experience as depicted in introductory political science textbooks
Ethan, Day 2
Some new data on the Bush administration's assertions of state secrets privilege
Margaret Truman
How many senators does it take...
Ethan Roland Sides
Lights, Camera, and ????–––Cameras at the Supreme Court
Please respond immediately...
Catching Up with Obama Girl
Angst in Albion
Animalia Politica
Is the Speaker of the House from a High Cost Housing Market?
Explaining the Delegate System
University Presidents and Candidate Endorsements
Coming Soon on "The Monkey Cage": Guest Bloggers
Intelligence and Sociopolitical Orientations
Headscarves
Louisiana Is #1: Let the Good Times Roll!
Why Is It Hard for Senators to Become President?
Kenya Electoral Train Wreck Update #2
Embodied Cognition: Thinking with Our Hands
The Attraction Effect in the 2008 Campaign
More on the Political Impact of Video
Rich state, poor state, red-state, blue-state: it's all about the rich
Ferrets
Economic and Social Differences by State and Party ID
Network Analysis Conference at Harvard This Summer
Image Bite News Is Displacing Sound Bite News
MLK Day
A Checklist Before Submitting an Article
A Different Take on the "Rally" Phenomenon
Religious Commitment in Academia: Political Scientists Stand Out
Ben Bernanke Knows How to Run a Meeting
Should the Democratic Presidential Nominee Compete for Southern Votes?
The Rationalizing Voter
What's a "Big Win"?
McCain's "Big Win" in South Carolina -- Reconsidering the Media Spin
Yet Another Obituary: R.I.P, Hydrox
Looking at Campaign 2008 through Rose-colored Glasses
Journal Turn-around Times: The Slower, the Better?
Political Markets, 1868-1940
Inequality and Media Capture
Step Right Up for More Obituaries: The Fly-Powered Airplane and the Human Blockhead
Underdogs, Top Dogs, and Media Campaign Coverage
What Predicts Success in Graduate Programs? Passing Comps versus Finishing the Dissertation
Starting a Political Science Program from Scratch
Advertising Social Science
The Hunt for the Electoral Causes of Congressional Polarization
William McGuire
Sneeze Etiquette: The Proper Use of the Sleeve
Polling that Goes Beyond the Horse Race
The Benefits of Political Advertising, Redux
The Net Effect of Affirmative Action in College Admissions
Caitlin Flanagan Sounds Like Anthony Kennedy, or Desperately Seeking Social Science
Hoisted from Comments: Jim Gimpel
The Kenyan Electoral Train Wreck Continues
The New Hampshire Polls, One More Time
What Does the IAT Reveal about Your Candidate Preferences?
R.I.P., Eddie Miller
What Can Social Science Tell Us?
The Politico's Mea Maxima Culpa
An Average Metablogpost
Follow-Up: Did Converse et al. Get It Wrong about New Hampshire in 1968?
Should We Blame Secretly Prejudiced New Hampshire Voters for Obama's Loss?
More Fact Checking about New Hampshire: The Famous 1968 Result
Does Huckabee Have a "Catholic Problem"?
Iraq and the Democratic Candidates, or Let's Fact-Check Frank Rich
Scott Page in the New York Times
Les Liaisons dangereuses?
Why Was Hillary's 29% Showing in Iowa a "Devastating Loss?"
Chads, Hacks, and Bugs
Football freakonomics
Obama, Young Voters, and New Hampshire
Are Consumers to Blame for the Media's Focus on the Horse Race ?
Frivolous Cat Post #2 -- Doughy
"Fair and Balanced" Perceptions of TV News Coverage?
Telecommunications Exorcism in Reeves, LA
A Sure Sign of the State of American Culture
Who Will Win The Nominations?
David Broder Did Not Read The Monkey Cage Yesterday
Where Do Electoral "Mandates" Come From?
Polarization in the 2005-2006 Congress Highest in 120 Years
Are Primary Electorates Unrepresentative?
The Best and Worst of This Year's Crop of Presidential Campaign Ads
Polls vs. Prediction Markets
Is the Internet "Democratizing" Campaign Donations?
Debunking Conventional Wisdom about the Iowa Caucuses
The Kenyan Electoral Mess -- An Afterword That May Not Be the Final Word
The Best and Worst Ads of 2007
Gooseberry Is Blind
Measuring Debate Time
Football Schedules -- The Conventional Wisdom Is Wrong Again
If You Think the U.S. Electoral System Is a Mess, Get a Load of What's Happening Today in Kenya
Is Ron Paul Changing American Politics?
How Much Do Presidents Spend on Polling?
One Kentuckian in Ten Has No Teeth at All
The Washington Post Glosses Over Good Research on Voter Identification Laws
Top Political Movies
Did "Macaca" Lose the 2006 Election for George Allen?
Lionizing Putin: Do the Russians Have It All Wrong?
Decking the Hall, Sabermetrically
The Link Between Country Music and Suicide
Year-end Songs, Gen-yoo-wine Amurrican Version
Some Year-End Songs
Ken Shepsle Is The New Steve Carrell
Reintroducing "Pseudo-Events"
The California State Legislature Grooves to the Dulcet Tones of The Mamas and The Papas
More on Commas and Gun Control
Republicans Do Have More Zeal Than Their Democratic Counterparts...Pre-1976
Frivolous Cat Post #1 -- Gooseberry
Dr. Milgram, I Presume?
Getting to Know Hillary -- Sort Of
The Corrosive Effects of "In-Your-Face" Televised Political Discourse
Republicans voters have displayed a zeal for their candidates that Democrats could only envy...Really?
Polarization Redux
The Science of Evil
Women Leaders as Role Models for Women
Commas and the Right to Bear Arms
A Non-Frivolous Cat (and Bird) Post
How Malleable Is Public Support for Running Government Like a Business?
If States Regulated the Environment, Would All the Spotted Owls Die?
Did "Moral Values" and the Gay Marriage Backlash Play a Key Role in Bush's 2004 Victory?
Have American Voters Become More Focused on Candidates' Personalities?
Bridging the Gap between Psychology and Experimental Economics
Reader-Indulgent Canine Post #1
Does Wealth Make Blacks More Conservative?
Year of Ideas
Henry Kissinger, Angelina Jolie, and the International Politics of "Glam"
The Hearty Scandinavian Laughter of the Lutherans
Public Opinion Dynamics During Wartime: Are Ordinary Citizens Cost-Benefit Calculators?
Let's Factcheck
Campaigns and Elections
Magazine
If You Thought Immanuel Kant Was Bad, Meet Thomas Jefferson
Is Voting Genetic?
Annals of Ignorance in High Places
Estate Taxes - Are We Homers or Not?
The Environmental Impact of Divorce
Attack Ads Have Come to Philosophy
A New New Favorite Song for John
Self-indulgent Canine Post #2
More on the Media and Ideological Bias
What's the Point of "Journalism" Like This?
Are the Media Ideologically Biased?
The Hypothesis that Dare Not Speak Its Name about the International Terrorist Threat
Head of the CBO is Blogging
The Perils of Political Appointees as Agency Heads
Do Voter Identification Laws Depress Turnout?
Presidential Nominations
Campaign Ads as Multivitamins for Politically Undernourished Citizens
Media Coverage of American Politics: A Core Reading List
Political Aphorisms
Is Obama the "Post-Polarization Candidate"?
Too Much Money in Campaigns?
An Incivility Crisis in Campaign Ads?
Are Whites More Likely to Support the Death Penalty When They Think Blacks Are Being Executed?
My New Favorite Song
Thank You for Not Sharing (A Rant)
Are Voters Different From Non-Voters?
Judicial Largesse
Some Presidential Trivia
Does Voting by Mail Increase Participation?
Conciliation, Counterterrorism, and Patterns of Terrorist Violence
How (Ideologically) Different is a Rur'l Republican Texan from an Urban Democratic New Yawker? (Update)
Running Regressions for the New York Times
Should Iraq Be Partitioned?
Children and Presidents, Redux
Presidents, Good and Evil
New Wisconsin Advertising Project Book
The Enduring Importance of False Political Beliefs
"The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib"
The Curious Case of Women Coaches of Women's Intercollegiate Sports Teams
Conflicted Liberals?
George W. Bush vs. Paris Hilton, Dick Cheney in Hell (?), and 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists
Umberto Eco, Meet Samuel Kernell
The Washington Post: If You Don't Get It, You Don't Get It
Comments Are Now Operational
The Battle of the Bulge on the Campaign Trail
Quell the Exaggeration
How (Ideologically) Different is a Rur'l Republican Texan from an Urban Democratic New Yawker?
Why Endorsements Matter in Presidential Nominations
My Niece, Canine Variety
The Long-Term Economic Cost of Wars
Do Political Ads Affect Voters?
Polls Find Voters Weighing Issues vs. Electability
How Have the Mighty Fallen...
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A Lamentation of Google et al.
Why Is This Man Glowering When He Should Be Smiling? Conservatives, Liberals, and the Happiness Gap
Is This the Phone I Should Buy?
Self-Segregation and Polarization among Blog Readers
Hypocrisy
Can they really do that?
Who Thinks Obama Isn't a Christian?
Ranking states by the liberalism/conservatism of their voters
APSA, New Orleans, and Gay Rights
R.I.P., Uga VI
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