US citizens who haven’t voted early should exercise axiological rationality and cast their ballots. If you live in Maryland, please consider voting “yes” on Question 6.- John Sides takes umbrage at Michael Gerson’s attacks on political science. If you squint hard enough at Gerson’s arguments then his criticisms of qualitative-content analysis might make sense. Regardless, it seems to me that Gerson has it backwards: more mathematical and statistical literacy would likely reduce (not increase) the amount of vacuous horse-race prognostication and therefore enhance media coverage of substance.
- Outside the Beltway has a nice prediction thread that also rounds up peer-blogger guesses.
- My partner is out of the country, and my daughter can’t stay up super late, so I‘ll probably be on twitter tonight.
And, of course, since the US election isn’t the only thing going on:
- Justin Gengler has, as always, interesting things to say about the state of political contention in the Gulf. See also Marc Lynch.
- Anthony Elghossain has a guest post at Democracy Arsenal on political instability and assassinations in Lebanon.
- Jeremy Weate writes “a Polemic Against NGOs and the Destruction of Local Innovation.”
- Pablo at The Disorder of Things discusses “female terrain systems: engagement officers, militarism, and lady flows.”
- William Shatner discusses the Shatoetry app with Leigh Alexander.
- David Herter has rereleased October Dark. I haven’t read it, but our readers Should. Go. Read. Ceres Storm. Now. I’ll publish the podcast interview with David sometime in the next few months at the New Books Network.
- Speaking of which, much positive feedback on the Alastair Reynolds interview, which includes a fair amount of political science-type stuff. Go listen.
- LFC (whom I didn’t get to talk to ISA-NE) says that Michael Mann has published the third volume of the Sources of Social Power. Amazon confirms. I think this must be a hoax.
Daniel H. Nexon is a Professor at Georgetown University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service. His academic work focuses on international-relations theory, power politics, empires and hegemony, and international order. He has also written on the relationship between popular culture and world politics.
He has held fellowships at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation and at the Ohio State University's Mershon Center for International Studies. During 2009-2010 he worked in the U.S. Department of Defense as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. He was the lead editor of International Studies Quarterly from 2014-2018.
He is the author of The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change (Princeton University Press, 2009), which won the International Security Studies Section (ISSS) Best Book Award for 2010, and co-author of Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2020). His articles have appeared in a lot of places. He is the founder of the The Duck of Minerva, and also blogs at Lawyers, Guns and Money.
“I think this must be a hoax.”
I’m not sure I get the joke (btw, I got the info on Michael Mann from N.Lees’s blog [Chaos and Governance], and he in turn got it from Kieran Healey.) I must confess I haven’t read Mann (though I have read some of the other contenders for the greatest-macro-sociologist-of-the-last-part-of-the-20th-century crown).
For some time the consensus was that he would never write Volume 3.
Ah I see. Thks.
I can’t wrap my head around the fact that The Sources of Social Power might actually be finished. Just baffling.