Quantitative and formal analysis of international relations, comparative politics, and American politics.
Michael A. Allen I am currently finishing up some slides at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton “International” airport on my way to the Annual Peace Science Conference. However, given the recent airtime given to Biden’s comments about Obama being tested during the first six months, it worth mentioning two political science articles that have addressed this. First, Horrowitz et. al. (2006) … Read more
For those who are not regular readers of Trade Diversion, Jonathan Dingel has been providing several points of defense for Krugman against a barrage of political attacks generated solely due to the recent annoucement of his impending Nobel. The barricade so far includes these posts: Original Defense Additional fortification Redoubt and attack The introduction to … Read more
Just in case you were not subject to the barrage of email reminders, the deadline for Midwest Proposals is today: Call for Papers for the 67th MPSA Political Science Conference April 2-5, 2009, Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago*******************************************************************************Deadline to submit a proposal: October 10, 2008. Please forward this email to faculty or graduate students … Read more
Not only can you Google yourself now, but Google has made available their index for January of 2001 to help celebrate their 10th birthday. Not only can you Google yourself, but you may be able to see some trends (though, for any correct statistical inference, you would want to control for the number of websites … Read more
The Atlas of the Real World provides a potentially powerful visual tool that re-sizes nation-states on a globe based on their rank or gravity on particular issues: The Atlas of the Real World uses software to depict the nations of the world, not by their physical size, but by their demographic importance on a range of subjects. … Read more
It appears that one cannot go wrong with something as simple as a two-by-two table (produced in Excel) in a blog post. The three biggest traffic generating posts that I have personally done involve the Prisoner’s Dilemma (it is about a 2×2 game!) that received link love from Freakonomics, the Dark Knight Ferry game which … Read more
Going through Jeff Gill’s Bayesian text book when I came across the line: From the Bayesian perspective, there are two types of quantities: known and unknown. (43) This seems to be from the pre-9/11 school of thought as Rumsfeld* has us living in a more complicated world: I guess technically I should exclude unknown knowns … Read more
Einstein is probably the first image conjured in popular culture when asked to think of famous scientists, especially those that transformed the way in which we understand the world. It has been popularly acknowledged that he failed math as a child, though this is not true: In 1935, a rabbi in Princeton showed him a … Read more
Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, has commissioned and released the results of a survey of economists on a range of issues and candidates choice for the 2008 election. This was partly prompted by earlier statements by Clinton and McCain that neither candidate would not throw their lot in with economists and Adams decided to … Read more
Since it had become suggested reading for our first year graduate students in their introduction to methods course, I finally compelled myself to read over the April edition of PS: Political Science and its symposium on duplicate paper presentations at conferences. That is, whether it is acceptable for an identical paper to be presented at … Read more