Great work, Pieter! Have you noticed how little work there is on responsiveness to public preferences by age group? I feel like a good project would try to do Marty Gilens-style work but consider age gaps instead of income gaps. Happy to discuss.
Or Mary Fainsod Katzenstein at Cornell. She's his daughter.
Maybe write to David Engerman, a historian at Yale. He's written a great history of Soviet Studies.
Great work! Thanks so much. Just what I was looking for.
Thanks for the kind words!
Don't want to hijack the thread, but I'm also convinced that Cosmo Kramer is a Trump voter (Newman presumably too): substack.com/@andrewrober.... I don't think he gets on the ICE train though.
I think Michael Bailey's work is one of the examples: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... It's not my area though.
To separate content and style. On the first few drafts, the important thing is to get ideas and text on paper. Just ignore style, grammar, and organization, which all slow you down. You can fix all that stuff later during revisions. Ofc, don't forget to revise many times after you write the content.
But it all fits together. He is very explicitly an interim president. He came out of retirement (he is 86 and stepped down as president in 2009) when the last president resigned and is only serving until a new president is chosen.
There's a nice book on the subject by Jelena Subotic: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Reminds me of one of my favorite Geoff Nunberg pieces on the use of English accents in movies: freshairarchive.org/segments/arc.... Apparently the equation of British accent & villain started in the sword-and-sandal epics before moving to fantasy and sci-fi.
He's the son of a good political scientist too, which makes it stranger.
With all the talk about the political affiliations of TV characters, I thought I would link to my post on Cosmo Kramer as a Trump voter: substack.com/@andrewrober....
Thanks for the overly kind words. I learned so much from your work on all these issues.
Congrats, Martin! You should be proud! Hope we can celebrate it some time.
Here's some (imperfect) data on this point: andrewroberts.substack.com/p/how-politi.... It seems that AP, CP, and IR agree on most issues around Trump with PT something of an outlier.
Can we just go back to the days when they simply wanted to enrich themselves and their friends? I would take that as a win.
And I doubt his second biggest policy - deportation of massive numbers of immigrants - is very popular among the oligarchs either. It doesn't look to me like what Gilens and Page told us about whose preferences hold sway.
What does it say about our theories of oligarchy that the signature policy of our president goes against the policy preferences of just about all of the oligarchs?
I'm teaching a good portion of it next week in Comparative Political Institutions. A really nice set of selections. I added updates on several of the pieces (Geddes and Hooghe & Marks on Lipset and Rokkan; Katz & Mair on cartel parties to update Kirchheimer).
Thanks for the nice link! Your own ideas are an inspiration and far cleverer than mine.
Seriously, would love to see a replication of Fred Greenstein's Children and Politics if it hasn't been done already. His little subjects were big fans of executive authority (eg, the president is the best man in the world) and the police.
I've written a little about differences in the views of political scientists and ordinary people here: andrewroberts.substack.com/p/do-politic....
I thought this was great. Congratulations! I'd be curious how political scientists answer the same questions. Bright Line Watch has been conducting surveys of them for a while. Maybe they'd agree to include them in their next round.
