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  • Ideology and Education

    Thomas Edsall has a good review of some recent research on polarization in the New York Times today: The strength of a voter’s identity as a Democrat or Republican drives political engagement more than personal gain. Better educated voters more readily form “identity centric” political commitments to their party of choice, which goes a long…

    May 10, 2018
  • The Enduring Appeal of Perversity Arguments and Unintended Consequences Warnings

    The Enduring Appeal of Perversity Arguments and Unintended Consequences Warnings

    James Forman, Jr. won the Pulitzer Prize last week for his book Locking Up Our Own. It is well-deserved. That book–and his earlier work wrangling with Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow–shows the ways that we have arrived at the wicked problem of mass incarceration through something much harder to disdain than evil scheming by distant elites. We…

    April 23, 2018
  • Going Negative: Angry Ads and Negative Partisanship

    Going Negative: Angry Ads and Negative Partisanship

    It’s been twenty years since Ansolabehere and Iyengar published Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink & Polarize the Electorate.

    April 19, 2018
  • Man AND Rabbit: Naturalizing the Ethics of Belief

    Man AND Rabbit: Naturalizing the Ethics of Belief

    We need trust to know–even if we’ll also be misled into error by that trust.

    April 16, 2018
  • Moana, Complacency, and the Enduring Appeal of Steady-State Economics

    Moana, Complacency, and the Enduring Appeal of Steady-State Economics

    (Sometimes you wake up in the middle of the night with a reading of the political economy of Moana, and you just have to write it down. I regret nothing!)

    December 17, 2017
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