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Excellent blog on Chinese Politics/Political Economy
Victor Shih, currently an assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University, keeps a blog at which he addresses issues related to Chinese politics. The blog deals mainly with topics … more →
Clouds, Clocks and Sitting at Tables
Excellent blog on Chinese Politics/Political Economy
jd wrote 10 months ago: Victor Shih, currently an assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University, keeps … more →
External Threat and State Capacity
jd wrote 1 year ago: We addressed the history of state-formation in continental Europe and learned that, as Charles Tilly … more →
India--an "exceptional" Country with Democratic Deficit
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jd wrote 1 year ago: In comparative politics, there are two countries that are truly exceptional–the USA and India. … more →
Ganguly on Structural Sources of Authoritarianism in Pakistan
jd wrote 1 year ago: In Intro to Comparative Politics, we devote a considerable amount of time to understanding regime ty … more →
Is there a causal link between Natural Resources and Conflict?
jd wrote 1 year ago: The “resource curse” is the name given to the alleged causal links between a country … more →
The State and Democratization
jd wrote 1 year ago: The Polity IV data set code book, has a section entitled Indicators of Democracy and Autocracy (Comp … more →
What is (are) LICUS?
jd wrote 1 year ago: To me, it sounds like a species of tropical plant, but it is an acronym used by the World Bank and o … more →
Political Terror Scale
jd wrote 1 year ago: Authoritarian regimes use both “carrots” and “sticks” in order to control th … more →
John Cleese on Proportional Representation
jd wrote 1 year ago: There are generally two types of electoral system in use around the world–first-past-the-post … more →
CDU and Greens form Coalition Government in Hamburg
jd wrote 1 year ago: ollowing our mock election and government formation simulation, I thought it might be of interest to … more →
FDP Wins Plularity of Bundestag Seats in Mock German Election--Spring 2008
jd wrote 1 year ago: [UPDATE: I made a mistake when I was initially tabulating results, necessitating a slight change in … more →
My Introduction to Comparative Politics Syllabus
jd wrote 1 year ago: Here is a link to my syllabus; I approach the teaching of comparative politics from a thematic persp … more →
