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This page compiles links to active political science blogs. Online publishing allows these sites to tackle current events in innovative ways. This is not a list of blogs about politics, but rather blogs that feature political science data and research. We know a lot of great blogs aren't listed here yet, please feel free to suggest a link.

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ORIGINAL PROJECT: U.S. Presidents' Positions on Roll Call VotesPres. Van Buren's Positions:
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QUIZ YOURSELF: What did the Supreme Court hold in Nollan v. California Coastal Commission (1987)?

The Court held that requiring a property owner to allow a permanent physical occupation of his property as a condition of obtaining a building permit is a taking, not merely a regulation of land use. Allowing public traffic along a beach did not serve the same purpose as limiting development to maintain the view of the beach from the street. The Court viewed the Coastal Commission's demand as "extortion" that required just compensation.

Answer: Hover over the box!More of this: Review Am. Const. Law

Teach Political Analysis

Theory & Concepts:
The Essentials of Political Analysis, 6th Edition. Classic introductory text, clear writing, helps students learn, great ancillaries. More info.

Companions for SPSS, Stata, Excel & R. Practice with software of your choice.

MORE FOR TEACHERS: Sample Course Syllabi featuring our textbooks, varied software, with/without paper assignments

Review Terms for 5 Minutes - Pick chapters or just press play for quick study

Run Live R Demos in Browser - Excellent for online teaching

Links to More Resources for Teaching Political Analysis

More Questions than Answers

Does the Median Voter Prefer Divided Government?
Hypothesis: Median voters prefer divided government. People distrust unified government and want ambition to check ambition. Is this always true (during wars and crises too)? When does it occur (only […]

MORE QUESTIONS: Simple Way to Reduce Bias in Teaching Evaluations?

Leveraging Television for Inmate Education: A Simple Solution for Expanding Educational Opportunities in Prisons

Watch and Learn


Creating Area Charts to Visualize Data
Shows how and when to create area charts (4:41).

MORE VIDEOS: Lecture Videos for The Essentials of Political Analysis

Learn How-To Do It with Video Tutorials for R, Stata, SPSS, and Excel

#OCCUPYIRTHEORY: A blog focusing primarily on the significance of Occupy Wall Street and other horizontalist political movements for the academic disciplines of International Relations and International Political Economy. .

Africa Research Institute Blog: Encourages debate, questions orthodoxy and challenges “received wisdom” in and about Africa. .
Asian Security Blog: From Robert Kelly .

British Politics and Policy: From the London School of Economics. .

Center for Effective Global Action Blog: Comments on key issues related to poverty alleviation and global development. .
Chicago Booth Review: .
Conversation: Politics + Society Section: Posts by academic authors edited for internet readers. .
Council on Foreign Relations Blogs: CFR is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher. Blogs represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR. .
CQ Researcher Blog: .
Current Events: Management of the Administrative State: Focused on enhancing the role political scientists can play in the management of the administrative state by becoming involved in regulatory matters and seeking Presidential appointments to key positions. .

Democracy Audit: Independent organisation based at the LSE for research into the quality and effectiveness of UK democracy. .
Different View, A: From the International Association for Political Science Students. .
Duck of Minerva: Addresses world politics from an academic perspective. .

FiveThirtyEight Politics: Excellent data visualizations .

Gin and Tacos: Political bile, social commentary, and humor from Ed Burmilla .

Governance for Development: From the World Bank. .

Harvard Univ. Press Blog - Political Science: News about HUP's political science publications .

JEPP Online: Official blog of the Journal of European Public Policy. .

Just the Social Facts, Ma'am: By David Weakliem .

Made in America: Notes on American life and history by Claude S. Fischer. .

Marginal Revolution: By Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok .

Michigan Policy Wonk Blog: Publicizes research relevant to state policymakers .

Mischiefs of Faction: An independent political science blog featuring reflections on the party system .

Monkey Cage: Here, political scientists draw on their own expertise and the discipline's research to illuminate the news, inform civic discussion, and make some sense of the circus that is politics. .

National Security Law Podcast: A weekly review of the latest legal controversies associated with the U.S. government's national security activities and institutions, featuring Professors Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck of the University of Texas at Austin. .

Party Systems & Governments Observatory Blog: Analysis of recent European elections. .

Political Science Now: American Political Science Association blog covering people, research and news in political science. .

Political Violence at a Glance: Experts answer questions about violence happening around the world and offer simple, straight-forward analysis before anyone else does. .

Power 3.0: Explores how savvy authoritarian governments survive and thrive, and the ways that democracies are contending with this challenge. .

Rev. of African Political Econ. Blog: Short articles to highlight developments on the continent and comment on the dynamics of protest, shifting patterns of political economy and issues of historical concern. .

Saideman's Semi-Spew: Wide ranging thoughts on international relations, ethnic conflict, civil-military relations, academia, and politics from Stephen Saideman. .

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science: From Andrew Gelman and co-authors. .

Strange Maps: comments on all kinds of intriguing maps - real, fictional, and what-if ones .

Tibet Issue, The: Discussion about contemporary political issues in Tibet. .

Two Weeks Notice: A Latin American politics blog from Greg Weeks of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. .

Up Front: The latest analysis by Brookings experts of current events and breaking news. .

USAPP - American Politics and Policy: From the London School of Economics .

Volokh Conspiracy: Posts about law and politics .

War on the Rocks: Analysis, commentary, debate and multimedia content on foreign policy and national security issues through a realist lens .

War on the Rocks: A platform for analysis, commentary, debate and multimedia content on foreign policy and national security issues through a realist lens. .

War, Numbers and Human Losses: Thoughts on quantitative research on war from Mike Spagat. .

WIDER Angle: United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research addresses political and economic development issues .

#OCCUPYIRTHEORY: A blog focusing primarily on the significance of Occupy Wall Street and other horizontalist political movements for the academic disciplines of International Relations and International Political Economy. .

Africa Research Institute Blog: Encourages debate, questions orthodoxy and challenges “received wisdom” in and about Africa. .
Asian Security Blog: From Robert Kelly .

British Politics and Policy: From the London School of Economics. .

Center for Effective Global Action Blog: Comments on key issues related to poverty alleviation and global development. .
Chicago Booth Review: .
Conversation: Politics + Society Section: Posts by academic authors edited for internet readers. .
Council on Foreign Relations Blogs: CFR is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher. Blogs represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR. .
CQ Researcher Blog: .
Current Events: Management of the Administrative State: Focused on enhancing the role political scientists can play in the management of the administrative state by becoming involved in regulatory matters and seeking Presidential appointments to key positions. .

Democracy Audit: Independent organisation based at the LSE for research into the quality and effectiveness of UK democracy. .
Different View, A: From the International Association for Political Science Students. .
Duck of Minerva: Addresses world politics from an academic perspective. .

FiveThirtyEight Politics: Excellent data visualizations .

Gin and Tacos: Political bile, social commentary, and humor from Ed Burmilla .
Governance for Development: From the World Bank. .

Harvard Univ. Press Blog - Political Science: News about HUP's political science publications .

JEPP Online: Official blog of the Journal of European Public Policy. .
Just the Social Facts, Ma'am: By David Weakliem .

Made in America: Notes on American life and history by Claude S. Fischer. .

Marginal Revolution: By Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok .

Michigan Policy Wonk Blog: Publicizes research relevant to state policymakers .

Mischiefs of Faction: An independent political science blog featuring reflections on the party system .

Party Systems & Governments Observatory Blog: Analysis of recent European elections. .

Political Science Now: American Political Science Association blog covering people, research and news in political science. .

Political Violence at a Glance: Experts answer questions about violence happening around the world and offer simple, straight-forward analysis before anyone else does. .

Power 3.0: Explores how savvy authoritarian governments survive and thrive, and the ways that democracies are contending with this challenge. .

Saideman's Semi-Spew: Wide ranging thoughts on international relations, ethnic conflict, civil-military relations, academia, and politics from Stephen Saideman. .

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science: From Andrew Gelman and co-authors. .

Strange Maps: comments on all kinds of intriguing maps - real, fictional, and what-if ones .

Tibet Issue, The: Discussion about contemporary political issues in Tibet. .

Two Weeks Notice: A Latin American politics blog from Greg Weeks of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. .

Up Front: The latest analysis by Brookings experts of current events and breaking news. .

USAPP - American Politics and Policy: From the London School of Economics .

Volokh Conspiracy: Posts about law and politics .

War on the Rocks: Analysis, commentary, debate and multimedia content on foreign policy and national security issues through a realist lens .

War on the Rocks: A platform for analysis, commentary, debate and multimedia content on foreign policy and national security issues through a realist lens. .

War, Numbers and Human Losses: Thoughts on quantitative research on war from Mike Spagat. .

WIDER Angle: United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research addresses political and economic development issues .

#OCCUPYIRTHEORY: A blog focusing primarily on the significance of Occupy Wall Street and other horizontalist political movements for the academic disciplines of International Relations and International Political Economy. .

Africa Research Institute Blog: Encourages debate, questions orthodoxy and challenges “received wisdom” in and about Africa. .

Asian Security Blog: From Robert Kelly .

British Politics and Policy: From the London School of Economics. .

Center for Effective Global Action Blog: Comments on key issues related to poverty alleviation and global development. .

Chicago Booth Review: .

Conversation: Politics + Society Section: Posts by academic authors edited for internet readers. .

Council on Foreign Relations Blogs: CFR is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher. Blogs represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR. .

CQ Researcher Blog: .

Current Events: Management of the Administrative State: Focused on enhancing the role political scientists can play in the management of the administrative state by becoming involved in regulatory matters and seeking Presidential appointments to key positions. .

Democracy Audit: Independent organisation based at the LSE for research into the quality and effectiveness of UK democracy. .

Different View, A: From the International Association for Political Science Students. .

Duck of Minerva: Addresses world politics from an academic perspective. .

FiveThirtyEight Politics: Excellent data visualizations .

Gin and Tacos: Political bile, social commentary, and humor from Ed Burmilla .

Governance for Development: From the World Bank. .

Harvard Univ. Press Blog - Political Science: News about HUP's political science publications .

JEPP Online: Official blog of the Journal of European Public Policy. .

Just the Social Facts, Ma'am: By David Weakliem .

Made in America: Notes on American life and history by Claude S. Fischer. .

Marginal Revolution: By Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok .

Michigan Policy Wonk Blog: Publicizes research relevant to state policymakers .

Mischiefs of Faction: An independent political science blog featuring reflections on the party system .

Party Systems & Governments Observatory Blog: Analysis of recent European elections. .

Political Science Now: American Political Science Association blog covering people, research and news in political science. .

Political Violence at a Glance: Experts answer questions about violence happening around the world and offer simple, straight-forward analysis before anyone else does. .

Power 3.0: Explores how savvy authoritarian governments survive and thrive, and the ways that democracies are contending with this challenge. .

Saideman's Semi-Spew: Wide ranging thoughts on international relations, ethnic conflict, civil-military relations, academia, and politics from Stephen Saideman. .

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science: From Andrew Gelman and co-authors. .

Strange Maps: comments on all kinds of intriguing maps - real, fictional, and what-if ones .

Tibet Issue, The: Discussion about contemporary political issues in Tibet. .

Two Weeks Notice: A Latin American politics blog from Greg Weeks of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. .

Up Front: The latest analysis by Brookings experts of current events and breaking news. .

USAPP - American Politics and Policy: From the London School of Economics .

Volokh Conspiracy: Posts about law and politics .

War on the Rocks: Analysis, commentary, debate and multimedia content on foreign policy and national security issues through a realist lens .

War on the Rocks: A platform for analysis, commentary, debate and multimedia content on foreign policy and national security issues through a realist lens. .

War, Numbers and Human Losses: Thoughts on quantitative research on war from Mike Spagat. .

WIDER Angle: United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research addresses political and economic development issues .