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Today in Presidential History: Kennedy Announces Edition

Posted on January 02, 2009
1.2.1960: Kennedy announces his candidacy for the presidency.       

Casual Friday: Cardiff Edition

Posted on January 02, 2009
      

CFP: 10th Public Management Research Association Conference

Posted on December 28, 2008
Call for Proposals 10th Public Management Research Association Conference The Ohio State University, Columbus October 1-3, 2009   We are excited to open the call for proposals for the 10th Research Conference of the Public Management Research Association...

Today in Presidential History: John C. Calhoun Edition

Posted on December 28, 2008
12.28.1832: Calhoun resigns as Old Hickory’s Veep. Quotes John Yoo: By 1831, the break with Calhoun became complete when Jackson obtained documents showing that Calhoun had attacked him during the invasion of Florida. In a letter to Calhoun accusing him of ?endeavoring to destroy? his reputation, Jackson wrote ?in the language of Caesar, Et tu [...

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Today in Presidential History: Bank Edition

Posted on December 27, 2008
12.27.1945: Birth of the World Bank, which became an integral part of Truman’s “Point 4″ program of technical assistance to developing countries.       

Casual Friday: Anders Ilar Edition

Posted on December 26, 2008
      

CFP: State Politics and Policy Conference

Posted on December 26, 2008
CFP: State Politics and Policy Conference, 5.22-23.09, Chapel Hill, NC I want to point you to the Call for Paper Proposals for the Ninth Annual State Politics and Policy Conference to be held in Chapel Hill, NC on May 22-23, 2009 (sponsored jointly by UNC and Duke)...

Today in Presidential History: Truman Doesn?t Defeat Death Edition

Posted on December 26, 2008
12.26.1972: Truman dies.       

Hodgepodge

Posted on December 25, 2008
Guinnessometrics: The Economic Foundation of “Student’s” t  Symposium on “Implication Analysis” in Sociological Methodology Fractal Gingerbread House       

CFP: 5TAD Fifth Transatlantic Dialogue, The Future of Governance in Europe and the U.S.

Posted on December 25, 2008
5TAD Fifth Transatlantic Dialogue The Future of Governance in Europe and the U.S. 11-13 June 2009 ! Washington, D.C. Conference Co-Sponsors American Society for Public Administration European Group of Public Administration School of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University-Campus at Newark, U...

Today in Presidential History: Delaware Edition

Posted on December 25, 2008
12.25.1776: Washington crosses the Delaware.       

Review of Reviews

Posted on December 24, 2008
Wolfe, Wojtek Mackiewicz.  Winning the War of Words: Selling the War on Terror from Afghanistan to Iraq.   McClintock, Russell.  Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession. Hilbink, Lisa. Judges beyond Politics in Democracy and Dictatorship: Lessons from Chile...

CFP: Reducing Poverty

Posted on December 24, 2008
*CALL FOR PAPERS* Conference on: *Reducing Poverty: Explaining Recent State Policy Innovations and Strategies* at The Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions Emory University Atlanta, GA November 19-20, 2009 The goal of this conference is to bring together scholars and practitioners to examine and explain recent efforts by a number of states to take a more comprehensive and collaborative approach to alleviating poverty?one [...

American Statistical Association Academic Salary Survey

Posted on December 24, 2008
Is now online.       

Today in Presidential History: Pardons Edition

Posted on December 24, 2008
  12.24.1992: Bush pardons officials involved in Iran-Contra.       

Minerva Research Initiative

Posted on December 23, 2008
The first round of grants have been made:   Nazli Choucri, professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: ?Explorations in Cyber International Relations.? Patricia M. Lewis, deputy director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies: ?Iraq?s Wars From the Iraqi Perspective: State Security, Weapons of Mass Destruction, [...

Today in Presidential History: ?Twas the Night ?? Edition

Posted on December 23, 2008
    12.23.1823: Clement Moore publishes “A Visit from Saint Nicholas”. A rendition:   Students. Merry Christmas. The President. Thank you. Third graders? Students. Yes. The President. Good. Where’s your teachers? Thank you for teaching...

Today in Presidential History: Goetz Edition

Posted on December 22, 2008
    12.22.1984: Bernie Goetz shoots four kids. Says the president: Q. Mr. President, a man in a subway in New York City took a gun and shot four youths who apparently were trying to shake him down. Without reference to that specific case, since it is in the courts, what do you think of the use of deadly [...

Today in Presidential History: The King Edition

Posted on December 21, 2008
12.21.1970: Elvis meets Nixon. [It's a great story, but I'll leave it for our forthcoming book on the war on drugs. The best part is that The King was packing heat when he showed up at the White House.]       

Charles Tilly

Posted on December 21, 2008
From the ASA: Memorial Conference Papers and Tilly Fund for Social Science History. The presentations and papers of the Hirschman Prize Ceremony and memorial conference in honor of Charles Tilly are now available online at www.ssrc.org/hirschman/event/2008...

New book by Frank Cross

Posted on December 21, 2008
          The Theory and Practice of Statutory Interpretation This looks to be a good book for practitioners, scholars, and students. Here’s the ad copy: Today, statutes make up the bulk of the relevant law heard in federal courts and arguably represent the most important source of American law...

Today in Presidential History: Secession Edition

Posted on December 20, 2008
  12.20.1860: South Carolina secedes. On November 10, 1860, the South Carolina House altered the convention bill passed by the State Senate, changing the date the convention would meet to December 17, and changing the date of the election of convention delegates to December 6...

CFP: Conference on Public Service Motivation

Posted on December 20, 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS International Public Service Motivation Research Conference The School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington and the Public Management Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven are co-sponsoring the International Public Service Motivation Research Conference that will be held in Bloomington, IN on June 7-9, 2009...

Changes at NSF

Posted on December 20, 2008
In the recent Dear Colleague letter, new initiatives: Complexity Science. We recognize that the concept of complex systems means different things in different areas, and we encourage work on complex systems incorporating analyses of the interaction of simpler systems to explain observed complexity; the dynamics of complex systems, for example ?tipping points,? where many things [...

Harrison on ?Outliers?

Posted on December 20, 2008
On the Class Bias in Higher Education Blog Jeff Harrison posts reflections on how Gladwell’s “Outliers” applies to education and provides a personal experience: I was reminded how institutionalized the “special requests” have become when I visited my son’s school to pick him up after an exam that ended at 11 AM...

New Measures of Policy Spending Priorities

Posted on December 19, 2008
On Political Analysis Advance Access, by Bill Jacoby and Sandy Schneider: In this paper, we develop and test a general measure of policy expenditures in the American states. Our approach is to construct a spatial proximity model of yearly state program spending...

Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve

Posted on December 19, 2008
Jawbreaker says “I wanna be your shirt”. Andrew Gelman blogs about statistical graphics on t-shirts. Which brings up the holiday season. Looking for a last minute gift for that person into statistical visualization? Try these! I am statistics ninja! Eat...

Casual Friday: MOB Edition

Posted on December 19, 2008
      

Today in Presidential History: Valley Forge Edition

Posted on December 19, 2008
  12.19.1777: Washington encamps at Valley Forge. … creating what became an enduring symbol of American determination.  In 1952, Truman addressed the Congress, saying:  In all we do, we should remember who we are and what we stand for. We are Americans...

Whistle-blowing Today

Posted on December 19, 2008
Today’s Federal Eye asks: could “deep throat” do it today? We write a lot more about whistle-blowing after Watergate and the Pentagon Papers than we did before, although I don’t know of formal citation evidence to support this claim...

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