Friday, October 25, 2013

Combating Bureaucratic Corruption and Inefficiency: Lessons from the United States

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 Note:  On October 26, I head off to Moscow, Russia for a week to lecture and teach.  This blog is one of the talks I will be giving at Peop...
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Campaign Financing and the Price of Democracy

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All indications are that the Supreme Court will soon declare yet another campaign finance reform measure unconstitutional, chipping away yet...
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Saturday, October 19, 2013

Making Sense of American Politics in the Age of Barack Obama

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 Note:  On October 26, I will be flying to Moscow, Russia to teach at the Peoples Friendship University.  I will also be giving a talk at t...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

Ending the Government Shutdown in Court

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So what if Congress and the president cannot reach an agreement to end the partial government shut-down or worse, extend the debt limit?  Is...
Saturday, October 5, 2013

Members of Congress have an ethical and legal duty to fund the government

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The political thinker and Irish Member to the British Parliament Edmund Burke once famously declared the duty of a legislator as betwee...
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Minneapolis will likely see increased voter turnout in November

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Today's Blog  appears in Minnpost . Predicting voter turnout is always difficult, including for political scientists.   The same will ...
Saturday, September 21, 2013

Let Them Eat Cake: The Compassionate Conservatism of Paul Ryan and the Republican Party

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    Michael Harrington’s 1962 The Other America told the story of two countries.  One was a country of affluence, where people had enough to...