Categories
- Academia and the Profession
- American Politics
- Biopolitics
- Blog Instructions
- Campaigns and Elections
- Collective Action
- Comparative Politics
- Conferences
- Crowds
- Ethnic Conflict
- Framing/Discourse/Rhetoric
- Funding Opportunities
- Graduate School
- Graduate Student Profiles
- Helpful Information
- Human Rights
- International Relations
- IPE
- Judiciary and Con Law
- Markets
- Methodology
- Miscellaneous
- Philosophy of Science and Epistemology
- Political Communication
- Political Psychology
- Public Opinion
- Research Luncheons
- Statistics
- Teaching and TAing
- Theory
Category Archives: American Politics
Paper idea for Americanists or Comparativists
I saw this post on BigThink yesterday and, well, it got me to thinking. It shows the “best” and “worst” of each state; some category for which each state is the best in the nation, and some category for which … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, Comparative Politics
1 Comment
Edward Carmines Research Visit – April 21-22, 2011
“Beyond the Left/Right Divide: Citizen Ideologies in Modern American Politics” THURSDAY, APRIL 21 – Grad Student Meeting: 4-5pm, OldH 516 FRIDAY, APRIL 22 – Research Luncheon: 11:30am-1pm, OldH 538 At the research luncheon, Dr. Edward Carmines will present research which … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, Research Luncheons
Leave a comment
The U.S. Senate’s “Blanket Hold”
News today that Richard Shelby, Republican from Alabama, has placed a “blanket hold” on all Obama Administration nominees, until a defense contract is renegotiated to favor Northrop Grumman, a company with ties to Alabama. What this means is that the … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics
Leave a comment
This year’s defense budget is the biggest ever
In real dollars (meaning even after accounting for inflation). See this article from Slate. 13% higher than the previous record, which occurred during the height of the Korean War. Also interesting, the Army, Air Force and Navy each received one … Continue reading
Quadrennial Defense Review
The new Quadrennial Defense Review came out today. You can find it here.
New thinking on the length of congressional bills
You probably are all aware that yesterday President Obama engaged in a lengthy televised discussion with Congressional Republicans on a whole host of issues. It was a novel, and I’d guess positive, development in the way executive-legislative relations work in … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics
Leave a comment
Ronald Dworkin weighs in on Citizens United v. FEC
Short version: I think he might be even less favorable toward the opinion than I am. A taste: “The opinion announces and perpetuates a shallow, simplistic understanding of the First Amendment, one that actually undermines one of the most basic … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, Judiciary and Con Law
1 Comment
More on Citizens United v. FEC
Here are two more good articles about the Supreme Court’s recent disaster of an opinion. Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post describes some of the ways that the Court engaged in fairly brazen intellectual dishonesty regarding the status of corporations … Continue reading
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
Today the U.S. Supreme Court announced its opinion in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, where it held that any legal limit on corporate spending during political campaigns amounts to a violation of free speech. I haven’t read the whole … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, Judiciary and Con Law
1 Comment
Letters to the Editor re the Filibuster
As you all know by now, Ted Kennedy’s seat in the Senate was not retained by a Democrat, but instead was won by Massachusetts State Senator Scott Brown, a Republican. This eliminates the Democrats 60 vote majority, which had become … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics
1 Comment
UNL Political Science Graduate Student Blog 