Henry Farrell creates a poli sci public good

Ezra Klein believes that there is a poli sci gap in the blogosphere. In response, Henry Farrell decides to create a public good to partially address this issue. The result won’t be more poli sci blogs, but it will provide some connective tissue between political science and the blogosphere. Henry explains: Welcome to the political ...

By , a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast.

Ezra Klein believes that there is a poli sci gap in the blogosphere. In response, Henry Farrell decides to create a public good to partially address this issue. The result won't be more poli sci blogs, but it will provide some connective tissue between political science and the blogosphere. Henry explains: Welcome to the political science papers blog, which seeks to serve as a rough-and-ready guide to political science papers which are likely to have some appeal to a general audience (as measured by the editor?s idiosyncratic notions of ?appeal?). As currently constituted, the blog will post entries consisting of the abstracts of the papers, bibliographic details, and, where available, links to the papers in question. Where the editor has something additional to say about the paper, and time to say it, he?ll include this too. To submit papers for consideration, send the details (including URL, cut-and-pastable abstract and bibliographic details please) to henry at the domain name henryfarrell with the suffix .net. If the paper is available outside a journal?s paywall, this is obviously likely to make non-academics more likely to read and download it.

Ezra Klein believes that there is a poli sci gap in the blogosphere. In response, Henry Farrell decides to create a public good to partially address this issue. The result won’t be more poli sci blogs, but it will provide some connective tissue between political science and the blogosphere. Henry explains:

Welcome to the political science papers blog, which seeks to serve as a rough-and-ready guide to political science papers which are likely to have some appeal to a general audience (as measured by the editor?s idiosyncratic notions of ?appeal?). As currently constituted, the blog will post entries consisting of the abstracts of the papers, bibliographic details, and, where available, links to the papers in question. Where the editor has something additional to say about the paper, and time to say it, he?ll include this too. To submit papers for consideration, send the details (including URL, cut-and-pastable abstract and bibliographic details please) to henry at the domain name henryfarrell with the suffix .net. If the paper is available outside a journal?s paywall, this is obviously likely to make non-academics more likely to read and download it.

Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner

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