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Redistribution and National Identity: Rhetorical Implications?


Submitted by Jim Aune on July 3, 2009 - 3:28pm


It's not very often that I get jazzed by quantitative work in political science, but here's a remarkable study: Moses Shayo, “A Model of Social Identity with an Application to Political Economy: Nation, Class and Redistribution” (SSRN link here)

 

David Brooks Gets It


Submitted by Jim Aune on October 10, 2008 - 9:45am


From David Brooks' NYT column today: "Republicans have alienated the highly educated regions — Silicon Valley, northern Virginia, the suburbs outside of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Raleigh-Durham. The West Coast and the Northeast are mostly gone.