Lakatos reloaded paper in print and online
My ‘Lakatos Reloaded’ rejoinder has just been published by the British Journal of Politics and International Relations (vol. 11 (2009): 526-528. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-856X.2009.00372.x).
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Turnout, Lakatos, and Case Studies
I was slightly surprised that I would have the right to respond to that reply. Where does it stop?
Does inequality depress turnout (or what you shouldn't do with time-series cross-sectional data)?
The US might face unprecedented levels of turnout in tomorrow’s election, but historically, the non-voters are the biggest camp in American politics. One intriguing explanation for this well-known fact is that low turnout could be a consequence of the very high (by any standard) levels of income inequality: because voters lack experience with universalistic institutions,…