Month: May 2011
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Twitter roundup
From my Twitter feed (5/2-5/6) Brendan Nyhan May 6, 2011 at 7:50 PM Powered by Keepstream BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan A new disciplinary motto! RT @paulwaldman1: Political science: Not wrong, but often boring http://bit.ly/jyptL0 Political Science v. Journalism Andrew Gelman, a political scientist and statistician who writes at The Monkey Cage, has been in a bit of
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Is birtherism driven by race?
Bob Somerby of The Daily Howler objects to the liberal conventional wisdom that, as the New York Times put it, “It is inconceivable that this campaign [birtherism]… would have been conducted against a white president”: We think it was a remarkable statement because somewhat similar campaigns already have been conducted against white candidates. A somewhat
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New paper on presidential scandal
The latest version of my manuscript (PDF) on the effects of political and media context on presidential scandal is now available online. Here’s the abstract: Political scandal is typically portrayed as the direct result of misbehavior by public officials, but scandal should instead be understood as a widespread elite perception of misbehavior whose occurrence is
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Twitter roundup
From my Twitter feed (4/25-5/2) Brendan Nyhan May 2, 2011 at 5:56 PM Powered by Keepstream BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan RT @MysteryPollster: A look back: Obama will see a bounce, but likely to be temporary http://j.mp/ieYwqV (with my guess of 5-10 pts) Obama Approval Rating Likely To Rise After Osama Bin Laden Killing WASHINGTON — While the