Matthew Hindman

APSA on the air

There is a strange omission in these debates.  In calling for political science to have a "stronger public presence" (in Putnam's words), scholars have ignored the historical period when the public presence of political science was at its zenith.

Party discipline ?

This conference paper (coauthored with Rodolfo Espino) looks at the "parties v. preferences" debate using an unusual data source: roll call voting data from the Arizona Territorial Legislature.  Party organizations were slow to arrive in Arizona; when they finally did emerge, they were weaker and more divided than in nearly any other area of the U.S.  The five decades of territorial voting data help disentangle the influence of partisanship, and suggest that neither side in the "parties v. preferences" debate has it quite right.  

Click here for a .pdf file of the paper.  Full citation and abstract below the fold.  

 The book manuscript is finally off to reviewers.  I'm glad to have the project off of my desk, and onto the desks of others.  

But it also means that I have a relatively polished book manuscript ready for general perusal.  Click here if you would like to read it. (Warning--the link is to a 650 KB .pdf file.) I would love to hear comments and criticisms.  

I'm also offering a $.10 bounty for every typo found.  First come, first served.