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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..

An attempt to create a space to share, discuss, and innovate methods and ideas for teaching in political science and international relations. .

Encourages debate, questions orthodoxy and challenges received wisdom in and about Africa..

From Robert Kelly.

From the London School of Economics..

Comments on key issues related to poverty alleviation and global development..

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Posts by academic authors edited for internet readers..

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..

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..

Provides information, analysis, and critical commentary on capital punishment and the role the death penalty plays in mass incarceration in the United States. .

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

From the International Association for Political Science Students..

Addresses world politics from an academic perspective..

Excellent data visualizations.

Political bile, social commentary, and humor from Ed Burmilla.

Successor to The Monkey Cage. Bring insights from political science to a broader audience. Here, political scientists draw on their expertise and the discipline’s research to provide in-depth analysis, illuminate the news, and inform the political conversation..

From the World Bank..

News about HUP's political science publications.

Dr. Kirby Goidel and Dr. Todd Kent from the Texas A&M Department of Political Science use their years of teaching, research and campaign experience to show you what is actually happening in politics. .

Official blog of the Journal of European Public Policy..

By David Weakliem.

Blogging about politics, parties, and voting behaviour since 2008. Focus on the Far Right. Also: data, methods, and the perils of peer review..

Notes on American life and history by Claude S. Fischer..

By Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok.

Publicizes research relevant to state policymakers.

An independent political science blog featuring reflections on the party system.

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..

Provides a fresh perspective on the biggest political stories by focusing on research and data, not pundits and politicians..

Analysis of recent European elections..

From APSA Educate..

William Kelleher criticizing and replacing the dominant positivist paradigm in Political Science..

From the European Consortium for Political Research..

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

From Benjamin Studebaker..

Experts answer questions about violence happening around the world and offer simple, straight-forward analysis before anyone else does..

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

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..

Wide ranging thoughts on international relations, ethnic conflict, civil-military relations, academia, and politics from Stephen Saideman..

From Andrew Gelman and co-authors..

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

Discussion about contemporary political issues in Tibet..

Updated information and critical analysis of capital punishment in Florida..

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

Non-partisan research center blog focuses on public opinion research and American National Election Studies..

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

From the London School of Economics.

Posts about law and politics.

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

Thoughts on quantitative research on war from Mike Spagat..

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