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Building a Political Science Public Sphere with Blogs with John Sides

We argue that political science blogs can link conversations among political scientists with broader public debates about contemporary issues. Political science blogs do this by ...
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Academic Article

Making Global Markets: Historical Institutionalism in International Political Economy, Introduction to Special Issue on Historical Institutionalism and International Market Regulation – with Abraham Newman

As dramatically evidenced by the global financial crisis, the interaction of domestic regulatory systems has significant international consequences. Nevertheless, these relationships have received only limited ...
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Blogs and Bullets: New Media in Contentious Politics with Sean Aday, Marc Lynch, John Sides, John Kelly and Ethan Zuckerman,

In this report from the United States Institute of Peace’s Centers of Innovation for Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding, and Media, Conflict, and Peacebuilding, a team ...
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Reading Milton Friedman in Dublin

When I first came to the United States from Ireland in the early 1990s, Americans thought of my home country as a land of green ...
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Self-Segregation or Deliberation? Blog Readership, Participation and Polarization in American Politics – with Eric Lawrence and John Sides

Political scientists and political theorists debate the relationship between participation and deliberation among citizens with different political viewpoints. Blogs provide an important testing ground for ...
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European Parliament Takes a Stand – with Abraham Newman

Most Americans, if they think about the European Parliament at all, probably imagine a bunch of left-wing backbenchers goofing off in Brussels or Strasbourg with ...
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Chapter in an Edited Volume

“Constructing Mid-Range Theories of Trust: The Role of Institutions” in Whom Can We Trust? How Groups, Networks, and Institutions Make Trust Possible (the Capstone volume of the Russell Sage Foundation project on Trust) – eds. Karen Cook, Russell Hardin and Margaret Levi

The last fifteen years have seen an explosion in research on trust, but there are still important gaps in our understanding of its sources and ...
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Chapter in an Edited Volume

The Invisible Transformation of the Co-decision Procedure: Problems of Democratic Legitimacy, Institutional Challenges in Post-Constitutional Europe: Governing Change eds. Catherine Moury and Luis de Sousa – with Adrienne Hèritier

The relationship between Council and Parliament within the codecision procedure involves a plethora of informal and semi-formal meetings in which many of the real decisions ...
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Essay

Do The Netroots Matter?

These should be good times for the netroots, the loose coalition of bloggers, MoveOn activists, and online organizers that sees itself as the Democratic wing ...
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Ontology, Methodology and Causation in the American School of International Political Economy – with Martha Finnemore

This paper explores disjunctures between ontology and methodology in the American school to better understand both the limits of this approach and ways we can ...
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Essay

Can Partisanship Save Citizenship?

Public intellectuals don’t agree on much. However, in recent years they seemed to nearly unanimously believe that American public life was in terrible shape. Political ...
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Chapter in an Edited Volume

“Privacy in the Digital Age: States, Private Actors and Hybrid Arrangements,” in Governing Global Electronic Networks: International Perspectives on Power and Policy – eds. William Drake and Ernest Wilson

Privacy has emerged as a key regulatory issue in the wake of the information and communications revolution. New technologies have brought new problems; they have ...
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Institutions and Majority Rule in Online Communities – with Melissa Schwartzberg

Norms, Minorities, and Collective Choice Online Much work in political science and political theory, ranging from the arguments of eighteenth-century political theorists, such as Condorcet ...
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Chapter in an Edited Volume

“Socialist Surrealism: China Miéville’s New Crobuzon Novels,” in New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction – eds. Donald Hassler and Clyde Wilcox

How do politics and the science fiction and fantasy genres inform each other? Science fiction has always had a strong undercurrent of utopianism – writers ...
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Balancing National Security and Commerce: Information Politics in the New Transatlantic Agenda

Following several years of tension between Europe and the United States, policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic have rediscovered pragmatism. Apparently irreconcilable differences of ...
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Essay

Underworlds (Review Essay on Roberto Saviano’s Gomorrah)

Gangsters have guns and muscle, but a good writer always gets the last word. Roberto Saviano is a marked man. After writing Gomorrah and publicly ...
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Introduction: Blogs, Politics and Power – with Daniel W. Drezner

There is good reason to believe that blogs are changing politics, but we don’t know exactly how. Nor do we know whether the normative consequences ...
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The Power and Politics of Blogs

The rise of bloggers raises the vexing question of why blogs have any influence at all, given their relatively low readership and lack of central ...
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“Conclusions,” in West European Politics – with Adrienne Hèritier

The articles in this volume provide evidence supporting the claim that organisational actors within the EU do engage in contestation over competences over a wide ...
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Academic Article

Codecision and Institutional Change

This article examines the sources and processes of institutional change in one important aspect of EU politics – the legislative procedure of codecision – and ...
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Academic Article

Introduction: Contested Competences in the European Union

In this article, we set out an approach to European Union politics that seeks to explain its development using theories of institutional change. In contrast ...
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“Legislate or Delegate? Bargaining over Implementation and Legislative Authority in the European Union”

In this article we explain how actors’ ability to bargain successfully in order to advance their institutional preferences has changed over time as a function ...
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Bloggers and Parties: Can the Netroots Reshape American Democracy?

The “netroots”—an Internet grass roots that has set out to change the Democratic Party—are often maligned. These progressive bloggers and their readers, who emerged as ...
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Academic Article

A Rationalist-Institutionalist Explanation of Endogenous Regional Integration

What is at the basis of regional integration and what are the processes that drive integration? Why do integration processes develop faster in some issue ...
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Essay

Privacy in Europe Suffers in Terror War

The editor of the New York Times has claimed for his part that government surveillance programs are effectively out of control. American Access the full ...
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