Tuesday’s Forum
Steven L. Taylor
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Tuesday, December 30, 2025
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About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science and former College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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For the first time since November 14th, I’ve neither a market price study nor a Hell Week proposal to assemble.
I may even take the weekend off, should our luck hold out.
Today’s History Lesson
December 30, 1922
USSR established
Castro couldn’t even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
Richard M. Nixon