On November 1, 2018 I gave a presentation for the MSSU Nordic Semester. It was on the Varieties of Capitalism literature, specifically differentiating the Nordic Model from other Liberal Market Economies (LMEs) and Coordinated Market Economies (CMEs). I am happy to be a part of the International Semesters at MSSU! You can check out the […]
It is mid-October and the 2018 Midterm elections arrive in just a few weeks on November 6, 2018. The GOP and the Trump Administration need to retain control of Congress to continue to enact their agenda, while the Democrats are desperate to flip either Chamber and start blocking Republican efforts. The entire Political Science Department […]
I have been thinking about the current political environment in the United States over the last few weeks. I have also been trying to engage in discussions about Trump’s recent election to the Presidency. I – as many scholars – think that Donald Trump was an abnormal candidate who has proposed some policy ideas that […]
The recent U.S. election has beeen puzzling for many people. The prediction modelers clearly got it wrong, but many of the national polls had the election within the margin of error. The exit polls are showing something that has been slowly happening for years – white, uneducated, unskilled, men have turned against the Democratic party […]
In late October I presented a discussion of the Brexit vote for the Missouri Southern State University themed semester on the U.K. I present an original analysis of the Wave 7 British Election Study, attempting to disentangle who voted to leave the EU and why. It is clear from the data that, like the recent […]