Friday, November 14, 2008

Welcome to the Analyzing Congress blog

Well, I've broken down, and now I'm going to do it.

After years of wrestling with whether I want to start offering up my thoughts to the world via a blog, I've decided to take the plunge. In this case, I'm focusing on the world of Congress --- even more precisely, on the world of research about Congress and how recent developments relate to the social science of legislatures.

If I may be forgiven a shameless plug, the name of the blog comes from my congressional politics textbook, Analyzing Congress (W.W. Norton, 2001). That book is an effort to show undergraduates and beginning graduate students how professionals try to understand legislative politics. My intention is for my remarks here to complement the framework offered there.

I also offer comments about voting and election reform on the Election Update site. I will try to keep cross-postings to a minimum, but sometimes the temptation will be too great to resist.

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