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In the wake of Barney Frank's announced retirement, I'm seeing a lot of suggestions that are based, I think, on misunderstandings of Frank's strengths and of the various different skills needed for different roles. So: we have Tim Noah suggesting...
Seth Masket (link from Andrew Sullivan) writes: The upcoming presidential election is the most important election in a generation. . . . we are in the middle of (and hopefully on the tail end of) a truly catastrophic recession. The...
My co-author Jason Reifler and I have just posted a new manuscript (PDF) titled "Opening the Political Mind? The effects of self-affirmation and graphical information on factual misperceptions." It's one of the followups to our Political Behavior article (PDF) on...
Social science has established a real beachhead in contemporary political campaigns. Sasha Isssenberg’s forthcoming book, The Victory Lab, tells the story (see also this). Here is a passage from his interview with David Leonhardt about an excerpt from the book...
About four weeks ago—in the midst of the negotiations over extending the US debt ceiling—I was talking with a British friend of mine, and he asked me what President Obama meant when said he was going to take the argument...