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On (Modest) Differences In Racial Distribution of Voting Eligible Population and Registered Voters in California

Each election cycle brings renewed concern about differential voter registration rates across demographic groups. In California, for instance, only 62.8% of eligible Latinos are registered to vote, compared to 72.9% of eligible Whites—a gap of over 10 percentage points. Such disparities rightfully worry those committed to democratic

13 Apr 2011 3 min read

Measuring Partisan Affect Coldly

Outside of the variety of ways of explicitly asking people how they feel about another group — feeling thermometers, like/dislike scales, favorability ratings — explicit measures asked using mechanisms designed to overcome or attenuate social desirability concerns — bogus pipeline, ACASI — and a plethora of implicit measures — affect misattribution, IAT — there exist

24 Mar 2011 1 min read

Remembering Reagan

08 Mar 2011 1 min read

Some Potential Negatives of Elite Polarization

Growing ideological distance between the parties has produced clearer choices. This added clarity has resulted in improved propensity among voters to make ideologically consistent choices (Levendusky 2010). This is seen as a positive. However, there may be some negative normative implications as well. If parties have moved away from the

18 Feb 2011 1 min read

Institutional Distrust

It is sometimes assumed that high levels of institutional distrust in America are peculiar to it. So much so that a variety of theories have been offered to ‘explain’ this peculiarity including, but not limited to, elite polarization, income inequality, polarized media, etc. Empirical support for the ‘American exceptionalism’ however

25 Jan 2011 1 min read

Affectively Polarized? Partisan Polarization Among the Masses

The shooting of Representative Giffords has reignited the debate about the extent to which the public is polarized. Some political scientists have answered the question by analyzing people’s policy positions over the years. And the data are clear on the question—no, not really. However, a lack of ‘real’

09 Jan 2011 1 min read

The Unscientific Republican

Only 6% of scientists in a random sample of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) identify themselves as Republicans, according to a Pew 2009 Study. Assuming AAAS is not tremendously unrepresentative of scientists as a whole, what explains the under-representation of Republicans in science? While Republicans are under-represented

16 Dec 2010 1 min read

Extremely or Fairly Satisfied with How Democracy Works

Proportion extremely or fairly satisfied with the way "democracy works" over time across some established democracies, Nordic countries, and in the U.K, and satisfaction with democracy by party by year in the U.S. Established Democraciesest2.pdf7 KBdownload-circleNordic Countriesnordicr.pdf10 KBdownload-circleU.K.ukr.pdf6 KBdownload-circleU.S.nesres.

25 Nov 2010 1 min read

Education of a senator

While top colleges have been known to buck their admission criteria for the wrong reasons, they, on average, admit smarter students, and the academic training they provide is above average. So it may be instructive to know what percentage of Senators, the most elite of the political brass, have graced

30 Jun 2010 1 min read

The Jury is Out: Correctness of Democratic Decisions

Rousseau saw majority preferences as an expression of the general will (The Social Contract). With Condorcet, the general will was also imbued with the notion of correctness. As contradictory evidence is ample, it is time to remove the false comfort of any epistemic benefit accruing from such aggregation. Condorcet Jury

18 Mar 2009 8 min read

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