Describing “Why ‘never again’ happens again and again: Stopping state repression,” at the Center for Political Studies (CPS) Blog: After analyzing the 220 cases, the authors find essentially no support for the international efforts to stop repression, though Preferential Trade…
According to Ulfelder’s logic – which is not at base much different from the traditional and time-honored understanding of human nature – a definitive change in calculations in favor of escalating future mass atrocities is precisely what must occur if his preferred policy is adopted.
The crisis that makes centrist political science untenable would correspond to, be the same as, the crisis that makes centrist politics untenable.
Assuming that 2012 things are about like 2011 things or worse (N.B.: big assume; a few months ago most mainstream economists thought happy days were almost here again), then the election will be a paradigm test: Political pseudo-science calls for…
