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Tom Coburn's Grudge, Part II
Via Jennifer Diascro's Twitter feed: The Economist has an article up addressing the specific targeting of Political Science Research by Senator Coburn. The article addresses a point that I've brought up a couple of times in the past (see here... Continue reading
Posted Mar 21, 2013 at The Quantitative Peace
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Tom Coburn's Grudge
So I'm a little late getting to this, but Tom Coburn is at it again—more successfully this time, it appears. The short version is that Coburn was able to get an amendment through that prohibits the National Science Foundation from... Continue reading
Posted Mar 20, 2013 at The Quantitative Peace
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Good call.
Commented Mar 19, 2013 on Spring Cleaning at The Quantitative Peace
Spring Cleaning
Just a quick update. We're all hoping to resume posting more regularly later in the spring. Until that time, the impending death of Google Reader has prompted us to make a few changes that we wanted to make everyone aware of. Although there are other RSS feed readers out there, it may be easier ...
Spring Cleaning
Just a quick update. We're all hoping to resume posting more regularly later in the spring. Until that time, the impending death of Google Reader has prompted us to make a few changes that we wanted to make everyone aware... Continue reading
Posted Mar 19, 2013 at The Quantitative Peace
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Links Galore
It's been a while since my last post, so I thought it was time to put up at least a little something: Senate Republicans are, for the moment, blocking Chuck Hagel's nomination as Defense Secretary. Admittedly, my attention to current... Continue reading
Posted Feb 15, 2013 at The Quantitative Peace
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Chuck Hagel and Bipartisanship in Foreign Policy
Posted Jan 7, 2013 at The Quantitative Peace
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Quick Plug on New Pubs (Shameless partial self-promotion edition)
A bit of shameless self-promotion before the holidays. The kind folks at International Studies Quarterly have put a new article by Colin Barry, Chad Clay, and myself up on early view. The link to the article, entitled "Avoiding the Spotlight:... Continue reading
Posted Dec 21, 2012 at The Quantitative Peace
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Quick Plug on New Pubs
Just some quick and dirty near-self-promotion. Michael Allen (Boise State) and Matthew DiGiuseppie (University of Mississippi)—both of whom are proud, card-carrying Binghamton PhDs—have a new piece on credit and alliance formation that is now available on International Studies Quarterly's early... Continue reading
Posted Nov 2, 2012 at The Quantitative Peace
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Updates
Just a couple of links, comments, etc. Six seismologists in Italy have recently been convicted and sentenced to six years in prison (each) for issuing a "falsely reassuring statement" prior to the 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy (BBC Article). The... Continue reading
Posted Oct 23, 2012 at The Quantitative Peace
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Comments
So as not to appear rude, I wanted to note that we seem to be having problems on our end posting/replying to comments in the comments section. Apologies to the few individuals who do leave comments, and I hope this... Continue reading
Posted Oct 22, 2012 at The Quantitative Peace
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"Kountry" Package for STATA
I may be late to the ball on this one, but in discussing a project that we're working on, fellow QP blogger Michael Allen recently pointed me to the "kountry" package for STATA. The package was created by Rafal Raciborski... Continue reading
Posted Oct 20, 2012 at The Quantitative Peace
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Bureaucratic Politics, Interservice Rivalries, and The Galactic Empire
The fact that this post follows so closely on the heels of my recent post regarding the sparseness of posts over the next couple of months should in no way be taken as negating my previous point. That said, Steve... Continue reading
Posted Sep 20, 2012 at The Quantitative Peace
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Posting Will Be Sparse...
Obviously posting has been a bit sparse for the last month or two, and it will likely continue in this fashion throughout the remainder of the fall semester. While we are currently running on silent, this should only be temporary.... Continue reading
Posted Sep 17, 2012 at The Quantitative Peace
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Monkey Cage APSA Survey
Given that there is a hurricane that is currently headed for the city of New Orleans—a city which also happens to be hosting the 2012 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association—this poll at the Monkey Cage may be... Continue reading
Posted Aug 27, 2012 at The Quantitative Peace
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Paul Ryan's Foreign Policy Views
Posted Aug 13, 2012 at The Quantitative Peace
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(Mis)Understanding Political Science and Some Other Stuff
Let me preface this by saying that I started writing this post a little while ago, so some of the content is a bit dated at this point. That said, over at the Duck, Steve Saideman has a post up... Continue reading
Posted Jul 16, 2012 at The Quantitative Peace
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Human Rights and NGOs
I've been working recently on quite a few projects that deal with human rights and NGOs, and today's BBC podcast has quite a bit of material that is relevant to these topics. First, there's a story regarding a new law... Continue reading
Posted Jul 6, 2012 at The Quantitative Peace
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Military Capabilities
Phil Arena has a very cool post up wherein he explores a potential alternative to the ubiquitous CINC score for measuring military capabilities. This strikes me as something that is long overdue. And there are a couple of things that... Continue reading
Posted Jun 22, 2012 at The Quantitative Peace
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On the Utility of IR Research
At the Duck of Minerva, Josh Busby has a post on the gap between political science research/IR and the policymaking community. I don't have a whole lot to say about the specific content of Busby's post, aside from the fact... Continue reading
Posted Jun 20, 2012 at The Quantitative Peace
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The Syrian Civil War II
So it's official...ish. It's official-ish. Or maybe not. The BBC reports that the UN Under Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations, Herve Ladsous, seems to be the first official to publicly describe the Syrian civil war as a civil war, as... Continue reading
Posted Jun 13, 2012 at The Quantitative Peace
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The Syrian Civil War
Over at the new Political Violence at a Glance blog, Barbara Walter and Elizabeth Martin address a question that I raised last week regarding the reluctance of policymakers to label the Syrian conflict a civil war. Walter and Martin raise... Continue reading
Posted Jun 11, 2012 at The Quantitative Peace
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Don't Call It A Comeback (This Civil War Has Been Here For Years)
Well, maybe not years. And LL Cool J references aside, while perusing my usual news outlets this morning I've found that in the wake of what is reported to be a fresh massacre, Syria is again a common theme in... Continue reading
Posted Jun 8, 2012 at The Quantitative Peace
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Math's PR Problem OR Changing our Educational System
I was listening to the BBC's Global News Podast this morning and found an interesting segment on the utility of mathematical modeling. Professor John Adam's book (which can be found here) looks at how one can model various aspects of... Continue reading
Posted May 18, 2012 at The Quantitative Peace
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NSF Funding Amendment, Part II
Erik Voeten at the Monkey Cage with an update on the amendment that cuts NSF funding for political science programs. A version of the amendment passed the House with a vote of 218-208. You can see the breakdown of the... Continue reading
Posted May 10, 2012 at The Quantitative Peace
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NSF Funding Amendment
Via Henry Farrell at the Monkey Cage: Republican Jeff Flake of Arizona may today introduce an amendment to cut NSF funding for political science. Both APSA and Farrell call for folks to contact their representatives, and I will echo that... Continue reading
Posted May 9, 2012 at The Quantitative Peace
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