Rogueish

It’s become a facile journalistic tradition to scour the MLA program for “hilarious” paper titles. No-one ever seems to do this with APSA, which is a shame, as some of the papers, and what they suggest about the bizarre ways in which political scientists conceptualize politics, are pretty funny.The plenaries on “Addressing the Theory of Collective Action from a Multiple Methods Perspective” and “Political Cleavages, Spatial Metaphors and Models, and Political Dynamics in the United States, Canada, and the Soviet Union” sound entertaining, but my favorite is the panel on “Advances in the Study of Correct Voting.” Sadly, “correct voting” means voting in accordance with ones expressed political preferences; I’d like to see political scientists studying how many people actually check the wrong box on the ballot.