Hans Noel

Everyone knows the polls are wrong. We just don’t all agree on why. I don’t know anyone who thinks Donald Trump is going to be the Republican nominee for president, any more than Kang or Kodos were going to be. National parties don’t nominate cartoon characters for president. So what are we to make of […]

According to Politico, Donald Trump has lost the Koch Brothers primary. The Kochs have declined to let Trump buy into their campaign dataset and have kept him off the agenda of campaign gatherings they host. They don’t like him, and it matters. And it can’t just be that they have money. Even if Trump is […]

AFGE/Flickr On Saturday, at a Netroots Nation town hall, two elements of the ideological left got into a fight. While Democratic presidential candidates Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders attended the town hall, angling for the support of the ideological progressive elements of the Democratic Party, protesters from the Black Lives Matter movement took over the […]

I’ve just learned about a new interdisciplinary podcast on the 2016 U.S. presidential election (mostly because they’ve asked me to participate). Campaign Context is sponsored the John Morton Center for North American Studies at the University of Turku in Finland, and hosted by Ph.D. candidate Oscar Winberg. The podcast is interesting to me for two […]

There’s a chance this post is just an excuse to show a cute picture of a meerkat. My news feed is breathlessly telling me about Meerkat, the new social media platform touted at SXSW that makes it really easy to livestream video from your phone to Twitter. I’m told it’s a game changer, which is […]

Just two weeks after Maurice Duverger passed away, a second giant of political science, Philip Converse, died, on Dec 30. During his three-decade career, Converse authored foundational works across political behavior. But for me, he would be a giant with only one article. In 1964, Converse published The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics […]

Commentators: Nov. 5, 2014: “Republicans win! Democrats are doomed! Obama failed! It’s Red America!” Nov. 7, 2012: “Democrats win! Republicans are doomed! Romney’s 47 percent misstep! Latino voters!” Nov. 3, 2010: “Republicans win! Democrats are doomed! Obama overreached! Tea Party!” Nov. 5, 2008: “Democrats win! Republicans are doomed! Palin was a joke! Realignment!” Nov. 8, […]

If you’re a reader of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, you may have noticed that its creator, Zach Weinersmith (or just Weiner; it’s complicated), recently wrote a book about a new form of government: Polystate. (If you’re not a reader of SMBC, well, you should be.) Since Weinersmith’s comic is so clever, I thought the book […]

I recently gave an interview (see here or here) to Evan Juska of The Climate Group, an environmental activist organization concerned about climate change. They were interested in the implications of my book for climate change politics. First, although I’m sure they could do better than to focus on my work, it’s fun to see […]

FREE COUNTDOWN WIDGET Larry Bartels has a nice discussion of genopolitics research over at The Monkey Cage today. In it, he contrasts my new book “Political Ideologies and Political Parties in America” with the genopolitics research agenda. In light of that, I thought I’d mention what I say in the book about genopolitics. There is […]