Two years ago, just a couple weeks before the 2016 presidential election, I asked what does it look like when citizens don’t trust elections? Perhaps more than anything that he has said through his campaign, Donald Trump’s charge that the upcoming presidential elections will be rigged have frightened political observers, and especially political scientists. The […]
Category: Politics
False Cognates: The Case of Village Patrols in Indonesia and Peru
False cognates are words of two different languages with similar meaning that look like they share a common origin, but which actually do not. They are fun because they get us thinking about how languages develop and how they relate to one another, even when looks can be deceiving. Classic examples include arigato (Japanese) and […]
