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May 23, 2013 9:59 AM The Quantity of Candidates Isn't Nearly as Important as their Quality

Some candidates are thinking of running against Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper next year. Does that spell danger for him? Republicans seem to think so: At least five candidates are officially challenging Gov. John Hickenlooper in 2014 and another three are...

By Seth Masket

May 17, 2013 9:39 AM The First Ever Electoral Map?

The good folks at Handsome Atlas have scanned the entirety of the 1880 Statistical Atlas of the United States, and look what's in there: No, that's not from David Leip. That's a very detailed, county-level map of the 1880 presidential...

By Seth Masket

March 05, 2013 10:37 AM Is Democracy Still Relevant to Political Decision Making?

Mark Mazower has a good piece on Italy in the Financial Times. The turmoil produced by the Italian elections has directed attention back to where it should have been all along – to the politics of the eurozone crisis. We...

By Henry Farrell

March 04, 2013 12:53 PM Women Are More “Election-Averse” Than Men

In an effort to control for confounding factors that might affect the relative propensities for women and men to enter politics, we take the question of candidate emergence into the laboratory. We find evidence that women are election averse while...

By John Sides

February 11, 2013 11:41 AM How We Get the Next Pope

The pope has resigned. That’s it.  Don’t really have anything more to add at this point, just figured it might be a while before I ever get to write that again (e.g., maybe 600 years or so…).In the meantime a...

By Joshua Tucker