Sky L. Ammann (Wisconsin): Clicking Your Way to the Polls: The Internet and Political Participation 1996-2008. Peter Calcagno (CofC) and Edward J. Lopez (SJSU): Divided We Vote. The first chapter from The Blame Game: Spin, Bureaucracy, and Self-Preservation in Government by Christopher Hood. Rachel E. Barkow (NYU): Insulating Agencies: Avoiding Capture Through Institutional Design. From Democracy, a symposium on The Role of Government including articles by Rick Perlstein, Alan Wolfe, and Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer. A single cook, a specific recipe, quality control and uniform production — a visit to a real sausage factory suggests Congress could learn from the wurst. The Magic of Re-reinventing Government: Before the ideological war over entitlement reform begins, Congress should look to the ways technology can reduce the cost of government. From Applied Semiotics, a special issue on political discourse. An interview with Dietram Scheufele of the University of Wisconsin on political communication. Ten years after Bush v. Gore, a look at five unfinished election reforms. "Celebrating" the Tenth Anniversary of the 2000 Election Controversy: What the world can learn from the recent history of election dysfunction in the United States. Winning Faces: Biologically inspired vision algorithm predicts election results. What's so great about representative government? Stephen Mauzy wants to know. Why do voters tend to stick with whatever political party they join when they turn 18?
