American women’s political economics in one picture

Posted on 4 April 2008 by Allison

I find myself clicking back to Dani Rodrik’s “American political economics in one picture” about the impact of Democratic vs. Republican presidents on the distribution of income. (To oversimplify, under Democratic presidents poor people do a little better.) It’s a compelling result, but there are some sensible criticisms in the comment thread. Shouldn’t the [...]

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Papa Don’t Miss the Vote

Posted on 4 April 2008 by Allison

I spent a few minutes at WAM chatting with one of the presenters about fathers and feminism. We were talking about the importance of men in the women’s movement generally, and how fathering daughters seems to bring even unlikely men around on women’s issues.
Then I came home and found this study on voting patterns in [...]

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