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Guest Post: Obamacare and The Divided Welfare State
By Alex Armstrong* Reading Jacob Hacker’s The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States, I was struck by how accurately it illustrated the struggle...
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Re-reading Juan Linz at the Fiscal Cliff
Though it seems likely that Vice President Biden, Mitch McConnell, and John Boehner have found an agreement that can pass both the Senate and the House, it seems equally likely that any such agreement...
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Representation by law? Gender quotas in Brazil’s elections
On January 1st, 2013, 7,646 women took office as members of the local legislatures in more than five thousand municipalities in Brazil. 665 women were also elected as mayors in these municipalities,...
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Re-Reading Juan Linz at the Fiscal Cliff, Contd.
I just saw that another person–in addition to Matt Yglesias and me–thinks Juan Linz’s old writing on the crisis-prone nature of presidential systems is increasingly applicable to the United States,...
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Multiplicity (not starring Michael Keaton)
Duck of Minerva did a public service by hosting a debate between Matt Kroenig, Todd Sechser and Matthew Fuhrmann (see here, here, and here). The topic was nuclear superiority and crisis bargaining....
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Naming and Faming: Forbes’ Power Women
Forbes’ list of Most Powerful Women for this year is out and Angela Merkel has come out on top again, for the 7th time in the last 8 years. I was struck by the number of American women on the list...
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What We’re Reading
One of the most high-profile and devastating attacks by Indian Maoists occurred on the 25th of May, killing and injuring many Congress leaders, including the founder of Salwa Judum, a pro-government...
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What We’re Reading
Some people use the word impossible when they mean improbable. Like this anonymous intelligence source: “The big thing that changed is an increase in the number of incidents,” the source says. “It’s...
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Turkey: A Nation of Joiners
(Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Candas Pinar, PhD candidate in Sociology at Yale University, focusing on state-society relations and political demography in the Muslim Middle East.)...
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What’s at stake with Syria? Reputation, Credibility, and Future Deterrence
The seemingly imminent intervention in Syria has recently been the talk of the town. As a nation, we appear overwhelmingly divided over whether a military response to President Assad’s use of chemical...
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