The Nominees for the 2009 3QD Prize in Politics Are:

Alphabetical list of blog names followed by the blog post title:

(Please report any problems with links in the comments section below.)

For prize details, click here.

And after looking around, click here to vote.

1. 3 Quarks Daily: America, the Cold War, and the Taliban
2. 3 Quarks Daily: Embers from my Neighbor’s House
3. 3 Quarks Daily: Is Obama About To Become Just Another War Criminal?
4. 3 Quarks Daily: May our Gods be angry: Celestial politics in Bas Congo
5. 3 Quarks Daily: Obama's Address to the State of Non-belief
6. 3 Quarks Daily: On Freeze and Dismantling Between Cairo and Bar Ilan Universities
7. 3 Quarks Daily: Under the sealed sky: Drones
8. 3 Quarks Daily: Who ended the 6-month ceasefire in Israel/Palestine?
9. Black Agenda Report: Liar, Liar!! Barack Obama's Secretary of War
10. Black Agenda Report: The Great Black Hajj of 2009
11. Chapati Mystery: Will Pakistan Become a Theocracy? III
12. Club Troppo: Is it Still Foolish to Hope?
13. Cochin Blogger:  The 26/11 Mumbai Attack: How I Lost and Recovered My Liberalism
14. Corrente: How will the White House make amends for censoring single payer in its Iowa health care forum "live blog" transcript?
15. East Asia Forum: Sex, race and religion still political weapons in Malaysian politics
16. Elizabitchez: Middle class values don't solve poverty
17. ePluribus Media: An Aussie Visiting America
18. Glenn Greenwald: Greg Craig and Obama's worsening civil liberties record
19. Glenn Greenwald: Phil Carter's resignation from key detainee policy post
20. Glenn Greenwald: The commendably missing element from Obama's speech
21. I Hate What You Just Said: Thomas Paine, Teabagger
22. Justin E. H. Smith: Birobidzhan!
23. Justin E. H. Smith: On Criticizing Israel
24. Lenin's Tomb: "Race Mixing Is Communism"; or, race is class
25. Lenin's Tomb: Rwanda, the RPF, and the myth of non-intervention
26. MF Blog: Is the Obama administration still worth defending?
27. Montclair Socioblog: Torture and Masculinity - Anxiety on the Right
28. News From the Zona: Republican Virtue and Equality
29. Once Upon A Time: Tribalism and the Destructive Politics of Demonization (I): The Largely Unrecognized Possibility for a New Coalition
30. PH2.1: Zero Global Zero
31. Stump Lane: What Is Torture For?
32. Talking Points Memo: A Second Stimulus is Good Politics
33. The Cedar Lounge Revolution: The market and high incomes
34. The Frump Gazette: Post Election-Loss Disorder On the Rise
35. The Last Laugh: The Basement Church of The Perpetual Loons
36. The Other Journal: The Evil Eye Controls Something Which Is Counted
37. The South Asian Idea Weblog: Iran and the Dilemma of Democracy
38. The South Asian Idea Weblog: Jaswant Singh: The Road to Partition
39. The South Asian Idea Weblog: Jinnah, Nehru, and the Ironies of History
40. The South Asian Idea Weblog: September Eleven
41. Tom Paine's Ghost: Should scientists speak their minds?
42. Tremble the Devil: How the war on drugs is a war on class
43. Unqualified Reservations: A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 9d)
44. Vagabond Scholar: Torture Versus Freedom
45. William K. Wolfrum Chronicles: I’m heterosexual - and, wow, do I have a lot of rights
46. Wisdom of the West: Blunderbuss

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Comments

[Ingolf]

So we can each only vote for one essay? Wouldn't two (or better still three) help to arrive at a more calibrated result?

[South Asian]

With 46 entries, the need for voting to reduce the number to something that can be handled by four judges disappears. It would take one extra round of winnowing to reduce the pool to the twenty they are going to look at any ways.

My recommendation would be to let the voting remain but for the judges to look at all 46 entries. This would yield useful information on how well voting works as a determinant of quality. Or, it can yield a sense of the extent to which the popular perception of quality differs from that of the judges.

[Jim H.]

Several people in my family want to vote, but we only have one computer. If we all vote, will that disqualify each of our votes?

[Duncan]

Just a typo note: 28 should read News from the Zona, not New from the Zona. Ditto for the voting form.

[Abbas Raza]

Ingolf, yeah I've read Kenneth Arrow too. :-) For now we'll stick with just one vote per person.

South Asian, we have an unusually low number of nominees for this prize, and would like to keep the rules uniform for all the prizes.

Jim, go ahead and have everyone vote. I'll sort it out.

Duncan, thanks, I've fixed it.

[Bruce A. Dixon]

We only got around to putting something on our site this morning --- 8 AM Eastern Time, US, asking folks to visit this site and vote for either of our two entries. Should we leave it up tomorrow and change the date, or what?

[Abbas Raza]

Bruce, don't worry, you've sqeaked into the semi-finalists. The voting round is now over.

[Acai Berry Optimum]

Excellent list for nominees... Keep up the good job!

[Top Grade Acai]

To be honest, I don't think The Black Agenda: Liar Liar! should be listed as a nominee. I find that title alone is a bit racist, and I doubt I'm the only one. All the other nominees are good though, especially 3quarksdaily!

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