Andrew Roberts

a man in a suit is holding a cup of coffee and saying you 'd better believe it . ALT: a man in a suit is holding a cup of coffee and saying you 'd better believe it .

With all the talk about the political affiliations of TV characters, I thought I would link to my post on Cosmo Kramer as a Trump voter: substack.com/@andrewrober....

Thanks for the overly kind words. I learned so much from your work on all these issues.

Congrats, Martin! You should be proud! Hope we can celebrate it some time.

How political scientists view Trump A test of the Musgrave thesis

Here's some (imperfect) data on this point: andrewroberts.substack.com/p/how-politi.... It seems that AP, CP, and IR agree on most issues around Trump with PT something of an outlier.

Can we just go back to the days when they simply wanted to enrich themselves and their friends? I would take that as a win.

And I doubt his second biggest policy - deportation of massive numbers of immigrants - is very popular among the oligarchs either. It doesn't look to me like what Gilens and Page told us about whose preferences hold sway.

What does it say about our theories of oligarchy that the signature policy of our president goes against the policy preferences of just about all of the oligarchs?

I'm teaching a good portion of it next week in Comparative Political Institutions. A really nice set of selections. I added updates on several of the pieces (Geddes and Hooghe & Marks on Lipset and Rokkan; Katz & Mair on cartel parties to update Kirchheimer).

Thanks for the nice link! Your own ideas are an inspiration and far cleverer than mine.

Seriously, would love to see a replication of Fred Greenstein's Children and Politics if it hasn't been done already. His little subjects were big fans of executive authority (eg, the president is the best man in the world) and the police.

I've written a little about differences in the views of political scientists and ordinary people here: andrewroberts.substack.com/p/do-politic....

I thought this was great. Congratulations! I'd be curious how political scientists answer the same questions. Bright Line Watch has been conducting surveys of them for a while. Maybe they'd agree to include them in their next round.