Henry Farrell is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the George Washington University. Previously he was Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto from 2002-2004, and Senior Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Project Group on the Law of Common Goods in Bonn, Germany from 2000-2002.

In addition to a book forthcoming with Cambridge University Press, Professor Farrell has authored or co-authored seventeen peer reviewed articles for journals including International Organization and Comparative Political Studies and eight chapters for edited volumes. His non-academic publications include articles for Foreign Policy, the Financial Times, the Boston Review, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Nation and a policy paper for the German Marshall Fund.

Professor Farrell’s primary areas of research are the international governance of e-commerce, the EU-US relationship, the internal governance of the European Union, and the political consequences of new information technologies such as weblogs and wikis. In addition to numerous academic publications on these topics, Professor Farrell is a co-founder of Crooked Timber, a highly influential academic weblog with approximately 35,000 page views daily.

Blog Entries by Henry Farrell

What Do Blog Readers Look Like? (Henry Farrell, Eric Lawrence and John Sides)

Posted July 10, 2008 | 06:03 PM (EST)


There's a lot of talk among journalists and political commentators about how blogs are changing politics, but not much hard evidence. We've just posted an academic paper (available at SSRN and here) which presents evidence on who reads which blogs. It analyzes a survey of several thousand Americans,...

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