The outcome of the recent regional election in Catalonia (which was held on September 27th) has been read very differently by the pro-independence and the pro-union camps. The former have emphasized that pro-independence parties won, for the first time in Catalan history, a clear majority of seats in the Catalan ...

What if one could manipulate only a few conditions? This is exactly the idea of experiments that are used to test causality – to deliberately manipulate only one variable or a few variables, while at the same time keeping everything else constant. For example, if one varied ONLY the gender ...

The election of 20 September 2015 in Greece resulted in victory for SYRIZA, who renewed its governing coalition with the right-wing Independent Greeks (ANEL) party (see table 1 for historical election results). The new government under the Premiership of Alexis Tsipras returns to office, with a strong mandate, which, however, ...

There’s only so much you can do to keep up with the political machinations of other countries. If, like me, you live a long way from home, it is just about manageable to follow your own politics, those of the place you currently live, and what Donald Trump has been ...

Jeremy Corbyn’s overwhelming victory in the British Labour Party’s recent leadership election has given the party its most left-wing leader in its history. The outcome was completely unpredicted at the start of the contest, with the predominant view being that one of the moderate candidates – Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper ...

Matthew Flinders is a terrific writer. While we’ve never met, I have greatly enjoyed his book Defending Politics, and was very pleased to have been invited by him to participate in a symposium that he organized on the relevance of political science that was published in May 2013 issue of ...