Category Archives: Research Blogging

The Problem Is Social Organization

Posted on April 8, 2013 by James Hanley

For a long time I’ve kind of puzzled over why my intellectual interests seemed so disparate. Part of it is that I truly find a wide variety of areas of study very interesting. It seems logical to me–each of those … Continue reading →

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Undigested Thoughts on North Korea’s Bomb Test

Posted on February 19, 2013 by James Hanley

Conveniently, North Korea’s latest nuclear test came just as my Nuclear Weapons and Power class was coming to the section on proliferation, so of course it has me thinking. But I don’t have a fully coherent set of thoughts that … Continue reading →

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James Q. Wilson

Posted on March 6, 2012 by J@m3z Aitch

James Q. Wilson died a few days ago. He was one of most intelligent, far-sighted and humane political scientists America has ever produced. He was a conservative, in the valid and meaningful sense of the word. He is most famous … Continue reading →

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Baby’s Got Blue Eyes

Posted on February 20, 2012 by J@m3z Aitch

While taking care of some administrative details, I stumbled across a student’s senior research project from a couple of years ago that I thought was pretty fascinating. The student was an African-American female, who had brown eyes but often wore … Continue reading →

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What the Evidence Says about Strategic Voting in Open Primaries

Posted on January 24, 2012 by J@m3z Aitch

This ran a couple weeks ago as a guest post at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen. The discussion there was two-fold, one line argued about the legitimacy of strategic voting, with the other line arguing about whether it actually happened … Continue reading →

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The Never-Wrong Method for Predicting Presidential Elections?

Posted on October 20, 2011 by J@m3z Aitch

There’s been a little bit of attention given to a political science prof, Allan Lichtman, who’s correctly predicted each presidential election from 1984 through 2008. U.S. News called him the never-wrong pundit. So what’s his methodology?

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