APSA 2015

The most recent Gallup (July 2015) polls report that immigration is one of the nation’s most important problems yet Democrats and Republicans remain sharply divided on how to address the issue. While Republicans generally support securing the borders in order to stop unauthorized immigration and enforcing against illegal aliens that ...

Political pundits (including professors!) sometimes assert that national election outcomes turn on which political party or candidate espouses the most attractive policies on issues such as taxation, immigration, health care, and (in Europe) the role of the European Union, that preoccupy the mass public. However, political parties do not stake ...

Fifteen years ago, the United Nations Security Council took a massive first step towards recognition of the lack of attention to gender equality and gender issues in peacebuilding, peacekeeping, and security processes around the world. UNSC Resolution 1325 provided a framework for the integration of women into peace processes, attention ...

Recent high-profile challenges to the veracity of published social science research (see here and here), highlight the importance of methodological transparency in academic research. Methodological transparency is the key to scientific integrity and the accumulation of scientific knowledge. As outlined in a recent NSF report, transparency about data collection, management, ...

In the run-up to the 2014 European and Council elections the UK Labour Party was contemplating different strategies of how to deal with difficult issues, particularly immigration. In the short term, would it be more effective to ‘move the conversation on’ to issues more favorable? Should it confront the difficult ...

On June 8, 2015, U.S. President Barack Obama held a press conference after the G7 Summit in Schloss Elmau, Germany. Although the president spoke chiefly about the Summit, his answer to a reporter’s question about the Supreme Court’s pending decision concerning his signature health care reform policy set off a ...

The microblogging service Twitter has grown into a prominent space for political talk. Political campaigns, collective action, and public discourse leave traces in messages posted by users of the service. Analyzing Twiter messages for prominent topics, actors, or objects is easy but does this analysis offer insights of value to ...

At the turn of the twenty-first century, the Left experienced an extraordinary revival in Latin America. In country after country, the so-called new Left managed to defeat the Center and the Right in free and fair election. In fact, by 2009 nearly two-thirds of Latin Americans lived under some form ...

The problem of tax evasion is at the core of much of the budgetary problems confronting Europe today. There is scarcely a German voter who hasn’t heard that if the Greeks and/or the Italians just paid the taxes they owe, these countries’ budget problems would vanish. Indeed, the cultural stereotyping ...