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Share David D. Laitin, Stanford University, is this year’s recipient of the Johan Skytte Prize, known by many as the ‘Nobel Prize in Political Science’. Professor Laitin is awarded the prize for his “original and objective explanation of how politics shapes cultural strategies in heterogeneous societies.” David Laitin is an influential comparative politics scholar, recognised for his research on the relationship between culture and politics. Laitin has made ‘culture’, often the junk drawer of political science studies, studiable and concrete by identifying various cultural components of a nation’s inner life: language, religion, art and literature or family life. Central to his thinking is that these cultural components do not have to easily reinforce each other or pull in the same direction. These ‘spheres’ can co-exist without coinciding. Laitin’s fieldwork experience spans diverse contexts from Somalia and Nigeria to Catalonia in post-Franco Spain, post-Soviet Estonia and France. His mixed-method research has broad implications for the study of identity, ethnic relations, integration, conflict and migration. Laitin has also contributed to debates about the relationship between qualitative and quantitative methods and is recognised for his views on the compatibility of political ethnography and game theory.
It's time to 'rank the vote' in Delaware — and across America | Opinion Eric Morrison and Kristin Brownlee, Special to the USA TODAY Network Election 2020: Discussing turnout for Delaware's historic vote Replay Video UP NEXT There exists in Delaware and in all of America a growing movement to enact ranked choice voting (RCV). Locales and states are enacting RCV at an exponentially growing rate. Many folks have questions about ranked choice voting—including how it works, why it’s so good for democracy, where it currently exists, and who endorses it. Here’s how RCV works. Instead of picking one candidate, you rank multiple candidates in order of preference — with no requirement to include a candidate in your rankings if you don’t support them at all. Let’s say there are five candidates running for Governor—Smith, Jones, Gonzalez, Brown, and Williams. I have preferences amongst three of the candidates, but I don’t like two of them at all. In the voting booth, I rank three candidates in order—Brown first, Gonzalez second, and Smith third.