Ezra Klein Archive: Political Science
The submerged state in one graph
"The submerged state" is Cornell professor Suzanne Mettler's term for the slew of government policies that most Americans don't know exist or don't realize are government policies. As part of her paper -- gated, sadly -- exploring how these invisible...
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| February 11, 2011; 12:37 PM ET |
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Charts and Graphs, Political Science
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Convention placement doesn't matter
The Obama administration announced today that the 2012 Democratic Convention will be in Charlotte, North Carolina. This has been taken as evidence that the Obama administration is worried about North Carolina, confident in North Carolina, or otherwise focused on North...
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| February 1, 2011; 4:00 PM ET |
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What was incumbency worth in 2010?
Apparently five percentage points, which is a lot lower than it's been in the past: Steve Ansolabehere and Jim Snyder estimate the incumbency advantage in the past set of House elections to be 5 percentage points. They estimated these the...
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Ezra Klein
| January 4, 2011; 9:00 AM ET |
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2010 Midterms, Political Science
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The tax deal and 2012 revisited
When political scientists say that elections are all about the economy, what they mean is that elections are all about the direction of the economy. A bad economy that's getting better will do more for an incumbent than a good...
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| December 15, 2010; 9:29 AM ET |
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How polarized are we?
It's common enough to say our political system is polarized. But is our world polarized, too? I've been reading Farhad Manjoo's “True Enough,” and early in the book, he references an interesting Pew study suggesting that political polarization is leaking...
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Ezra Klein
| November 24, 2010; 2:09 PM ET |
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Political Science, Polls
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10 things we think we know, but really don't
Towards the end of Hans Noel's paper on “Ten Things Political Scientists Know That You Don't,” he offers a list of 10 things that the public thinks it knows but political scientists haven't been able to prove. They are: 1....
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| October 19, 2010; 12:49 PM ET |
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Political Science
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