has there ever been a more desperate man?

This is the African politics co-editors' swan song for
#TheMonkeyCage's time at the Washington Post.

Together, @texasinafrica and I reflected on some of the great analysis our colleagues wrote up this year (including a few pieces published elsewhere).

🎁🔗: https://wapo.st/3Vv30UZ

@joeinwynnewood Thanks -- I posted this (linking to a Tw thread) before we had the article up that announced our departure from WaPo. It's linked here: 🎁 🔗 : https://wapo.st/3B8dxOA

apropos of a friend asking about #ChatGPT on Facebook earlier today, I was curious what it would spit out if I asked it "What is #TheMonkeyCage ?"

It was /mostly/ correct.

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The Monkey Cage is a blog that is affiliated with The Washington Post and focuses on political science research and analysis...It is named after a type of enclosure used in laboratories to study non-human primates, and the name is meant to reflect the blog's focus on the "political animal."
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[that last part = wrong]

@owasow nope. in this case, I don't care what science found. nope. nope. nope.

This is a great story of how Barnes & Noble’s new CEO who was hired in 2019 has turned around the company. Sales are up, it opened 16 stores this year and plans to open more next year.

The secret is the CEO really likes books and readers. So he stopped doing deals with publishers to promote their latest books & NYT best sellers and encouraged individual stores to promote books they found most interesting.

So simple yet…

https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-and

Don't miss this great overview of Russian public opinion on the war in Ukraine, by Bryn Rosenfeld and published today in #TheMonkeyCage.

🎁 🔗 : https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/29/russia-ukraine-war-opinion-putin-support/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjE4MTIwODM5IiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTY3MjMzOTY3NSwiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTY3MzU0OTI3NSwiaWF0IjoxNjcyMzM5Njc1LCJqdGkiOiIwOTQ3MzU3OC01N2U2LTQ1NjQtYmEyNy00ODA0MDNkNWYwZmYiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vcG9saXRpY3MvMjAyMi8xMi8yOS9ydXNzaWEtdWtyYWluZS13YXItb3Bpbmlvbi1wdXRpbi1zdXBwb3J0LyJ9.KPoSY26fJn8D2zaQ8BoOefoIHeX_mBP8DQhT1bucMCE

1/ A lot of people have been asking for an explainer on what is going on with Southwest Airlines and the massive meltdown that occurred. Hi, I'm TProphet. I write the Seat 31B travel blog (https://www.seat31b.com) and closely follow the airline industry. More importantly, I have a friend whom Southwest abandoned in Las Vegas until New Year's (along with his cat), and there was literally nothing I could do for him. Ready? Let's dive in.

Conducting tasks while receiving e-mails and phone calls reduces a worker’s IQ by about ten points relative to working in uninterrupted quiet. That is equivalent to losing a night’s sleep, and twice as debilitating as using marijuana.

https://economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21732141-evidence-mixed-it-seems-clear-however-they-are-making-us?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/aredigitaldistractionsharminglabourproductivityfreeexchange

@NathanKalmoe there’s a long history of using public health as an excuse to keep people out of the US, and other countries. We cite a number of studies examining pre-COVID pandemic othering in this article: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-organization/article/politics-of-pandemic-othering-putting-covid19-in-global-and-historical-context/5435248FC7AEF1468E4A8946FA57A92A

@melissabaker

I liked Adam Harris and Lauren Honig's recently published JOP paper, Mutual Dependence and Expectations of Cooperation https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/720646?journalCode=jop

I also liked Honig's APSR article with Karen Ferree, Ellen Lust, and Melanie Phillips, Land and Legibility: When Do Citizens Expect Secure Property Rights in Weak States? https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/land-and-legibility-when-do-citizens-expect-secure-property-rights-in-weak-states/02ABF2F423907B7A28C243E4D54EFB5E

Technically pub'd in World Politics in 2021, but I loved Dan Gingerich & Jan Vogler's Pandemics & Political Development https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/world-politics/article/pandemics-and-political-development/EA9466FE5164149AD4350B7D38222A5C

Okay social scientists of mastodon, what are some of your favorite papers from 2022? A chaotic year likely means I missed a lot and would love some recommendations so I can catch up!

@jeongpark52 This was a good read -- thank you for sharing.

How a renowned historian of #JapaneseAmerican incarceration changed his mind on Tule Lake, which housed those who did not agree to swear allegiance to the U.S. -> https://iexaminer.org/remembering-roger-daniels-bedrock-historian-of-japanese-american-incarceration/

Honest question: If the US had a better rail system--capable of convenient passenger travel--would we be having similar delay/cancellation issues with trains that we're currently having with planes?

Debuting work on Mastodon & not the other place for the first time:

My probe of drone strikes that have killed 100s in #Ethiopia 's Oromia region since October, is published in New Lines Magazine. Ethiopia's Nobel Peace Prize winning leader implicated once again.

Geolocated footage, accumulated interviews. Cheap #drones from Iran, Turkey & UAE continue to kill & maim.

Co-authored with Bileh Jelan.
https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/evidence-of-drone-strikes-against-civilian-areas-in-ethiopia/

@faizsays I’m fascinated by how many women are on this list.

🚩🚩#PSJMInfo🚩🚩

UC San Diego Polisci is searching for an Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics. Deadline to apply is Feb 1st. Share with your networks!

https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03493

Spent today reminding myself how to tightly roll an egg roll so my parents could fry (100+ of) them and we could eat (only a few of) them and then we could walk it off. #HappyHolidays

Just joined Mastodon, somewhat late to the party. @PippaNorris

Hope there are networks of political scientists here too...

@politicalscience #PoliticalScience