Henry Farrell

One of the weirder findings of the recent political science literature is that states which sign up to human rights treaties are more likely, not less, to commit human rights abuses. This is hard to explain. In a new article for the American Journal of Political Science (ungated draft), Yonatan Lupu argues that this can […]

Below is a guest-post from  Pablo Barbera and Megan Metzger. Protests have continued over the weekend in Turkey, both in Istanbul and in other cities, and social media continues to play an important role. Our preliminary findings from the post still hold, as shown in the plots below. The hashtag #direngezipark is still the most popular and […]

The Washington Post has a story with politicians expressing outrage about the recurring scandal of federal employees going to conferences with training videos and food and stuff. The Internal Revenue Service spent an estimated $49 million on at least 220 conferences for employees over a three-year span beginning in fiscal 2010, according to a forthcoming […]

Half my Twitter feed is convulsed by the discovery that terrorist organizations have office politics and management issues. If they’d been paying proper attention to the Monkey Cage, they’d have figured this out a little more than five years ago. From a more recent iteration of the Shapiro and Siegel project that I discussed back […]

This article in The Nation is likely to cause some considerable embarrassment to the Center for American Progress (CAP). Though the think tank didn’t disclose it, First Solar belonged to CAP’s Business Alliance, a secret group of corporate donors, according to internal lists obtained by The Nation. Meanwhile, José Villarreal—a consultant at the power-
house law […]

Jan Pierskalla and Florian Hollenbach argue that it does in a new article in the American Political Science Review. Overall, our quantitative models demonstrate a clear positive association between cell phone coverage and the occurrence of violent organized collective action. This effect persists when controlling for a series of standard explanations of violence, as well […]

Clive Crook tells us again that Paul Krugman is shrill and angry. [Krugman] is wrong about many of the people who disagree with him and about the best way to guide opinion. He’s enormously influential with those who need no persuading, which is to say not very influential at all. He would have more influence […]

The disaster in Bangladesh has led to much heated discussion in the blogosphere and elsewhere about how best to improve labor and safety standards for workers in the developing world. Can corporate social responsibility help do this? Richard M. Locke, who has conducted extensive research on this question, thinks not. From his article in the […]

It’s now been exactly a decade since Charles Krauthammer told us that Hans Blix had five months to find weapons. He found nothing. We’ve had five weeks. Come back to me in five months. If we haven’t found any, we will have a credibility problem. Charles Krauthammer has not only had that five month period, […]