Peer Zumbansen (York): The Conundrum of Order: The Concept of Governance from an Interdisciplinary Perspective. Martin Kroh (GIER): The Formative Period of Party Identification: Parental Education in Childhood and Adolescence. Just how strong are political parties? Jonathan Bernstein investigates. Jason Reifler (Loyola) and Jeffrey Lazarus (Georgia State): Partisanship and Policy Priorities in the Distribution of Economic Stimulus Funds. Ben Woodson (Stony Brook): The Role of Congressional Polarization and Divided Government in the New Ideological Partisanship. The specter haunting the Senate: Michael Tomasky reviews Politics or Principle?: Filibustering in the United States Senate by Sarah A. Binder and Steven S. Smith and Filibustering: A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate by Gregory Koger. From FDL, a book salon on Congressional Ambivalence: The Political Burdens of Constitutional Authority by Jasmine Farrier. A review of The US Congress: A Very Short Introduction by Donald A. Ritchie. In praise of Parliament: George Watson defends a much-maligned institution that is simply the best political idea mankind has had. Ezra Klein on Poli Sci 101: Presidential speeches don't matter, and lobbyists don't run DC. Steven F. Hayward on the irrelevance of modern political science: The problem with academic political science is its insistence on attempting to emulate the empiricism of economics (and more and more and more by John Sides). John Sides on what political scientists can offer journalists (and more and more) .
