Assigned 1st chapter of @robmickey.bsky.social’s Paths out of Dixie for intro to American lecture tomorrow, and worried I’m doing myself no favors by reading this brilliant, well-argued, and deeply thoughtful text exactly a week before my revised book is due to the press. What a bar to set, Rob!

👀 @lowande.bsky.social, Ben Guy Goehring and Mario Villegas use browser history data to examine the relationship between exposure to presidential unilateral actions and support for democracy. #MPSA2026

🇰🇷 At #MPSA2026, #ISRNextGeneration scholar Hanna Lee presents her work examining whether technocratic institutions served as credible commitment devices -- enhancing cooperation in South Korea under Park Chung Hee.

🇵🇷 Ignangeli Salinas-Muniz uses electoral debates in Puerto Rico from 2008-2024, and two surveys in Puerto Rico-- an in-person random sample (N= 1,200) and an online survey experiment (N=900)-- to test the effect of power constraints on accountability. #MPSA2026

Children can influence their parents’ politics, especially on new issues. In diverse, tech-connected families, parents are receptive to political cues from their children, particularly on emerging topics like AI regulation. Don't miss @robertocarlos.bsky.social et al at #MPSA2026.

Research has often focused on public attitudes toward censorship of news content. Drawing on this literature, Alisa Egecioglu, Yanna Krupnikov, and John Barry Ryan shift focus and consider attitudes toward censorship of entertainment programs – and their implications for democracy. #MPSA2026

@mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social et al find adults who grew up in rural areas had worse childhood health access, worse health outcomes, lower trust in medicine, and less support for health policies backed by scientific consensus. With Alee Lockman and @klunztrujillo.bsky.social #MPSA2026

The existing literature on redistricting largely ignores local districts. @simko.bsky.social, Gustavo Novoa, and chriswarshaw.bsky.social analyze the largest collection of city and county maps to date, highlighting the effects of a unique aspect of local redistricting: malapportionment. #MPSA2026

An important (and positive!) update on CSCAR and statistical consulting at Michigan. Thankful for @umisr.bsky.social’s leadership in this effort! record.umich.edu/articles/new...

At #MPSA2026: CPS's Cesi Cruz (@voxdev.bsky.social) and @jblabonne.bsky.social examine how US federal agencies engage in AI-related rulemaking-- analyzing how ideology, authority, and capacity shape the scope and content of AI governance using descriptive and computational text analysis.

🚨 Alarm bells are blaring to signal rising authoritarian practices in the United States. Vincent Hutchings participates in the #MPSA2026 Town Hall 2026 roundtable session chaired by @nazita.bsky.social.

💰️ As "lawfare" becomes widespread in American government, government officials must pay hefty sums to defend themselves in lawsuits. Timothy Daniel Arvan and CPS's Deborah Beim investigate the consequences of these large bills for the functioning of American Democracy. #MPSA2026

Using ANES 2016-2020 panel data, @NickValentino.bsky.social and #ISRNextGeneration scholar Avery Goods find that democratic norms are largely unstable reflections of partisanship, and, with the exception of media trust, don’t affect vote choice. @electionstudies.bsky.social #MPSA2026

It remains unclear when states name and shame gender-based violence and to what effect. Using computational text analysis and supervised machine learning, #ISRNextGeneration Scholar Esmeralda López identifies when the US shames other countries for gender-based violence. #MPSA2026

At #MPSA2026: @kaimthaler.bsky.social and CPS's @dnsltr.bsky.social emphasize the role of ideology in distinguishing left-wing and right-wing dictatorships. Left-wing regimes show a greater tendency toward political monopoly and regime closure, and more hostile stances to the US-led global order.

The new Latin American Elections Hub presents a hybrid discussion on Thursday of the upcoming Peruvian Presidential Election, the first of 3 panels to consider significant elections with implications for democracy and US relations. Join us: https://events.umich.edu/event/146577

Does executive action work? CPS's @lowande.bsky.social, expert on executive power, and postdoc Heonuk Ha present evidence in domains from military subsidies to policing, crime, and officer safety at #MPSA2026.

We have a cool new logo celebrating 80 years of collecting data to understand the life course of our population including important transition times like adolescents and aging. Follow @um-src.bsky.social to keep up with all the data and science that we share to the community.

What were the predictors of Latino vote shifts toward Trump from 2020 to 2024-- sexism, material self-interest, or immigration crime threats? A star team of CPS scholars presents at #MPSA2026: @nickvalentino.bsky.social, @fmortiz.bsky.social, @francy-lunadiaz.bsky.social and Mario Vigellas

CPS's Walter Mebane and #ISRNextGeneration scholar Fabricio Vasselai use a novel set of high-res GIS maps of the boundaries of Russian SMDs and new tests for fraud detection, showing strategic drawing of districts in Russian urban centers complements electoral fraud in the countryside. #MPSA2026

🇵🇪 Led by Edgar Franco-Vivanco, the Latin-American Elections Hub launches the first of 3 events to discuss elections in Latin America this year. Paolo Sosa-Villagarcia will present on the Peruvian presidential election March 26, at 340 West Hall, or on Zoom. https://ow.ly/68eI50YwBrN

States’ decisions to rename Medicaid programs obscures Medicaid benefits. @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social and @mirandayaver.bsky.social present on a survey experiment assessing the OBBBA reforms’ perceived effect on political mobilization to safeguard Medicaid. #MPSA2026

Many excellent papers about recent trends in survey response rates are cited in this thread. Thanks to @awmercer.bsky.social and @klauspforr.bsky.social!

#MPSA2026 spotlight: UM researchers examine how the race and gender of police officers and the race of male motorists influence expectations of law enforcement behavior in routine traffic stops. Don't miss Vince Hutchings, @robmickey.bsky.social, B. D'Andra Orey, Chelsea Waddell and Mason Holland.

📌 Who knows public opinion? @cgalina.bsky.social, Yanna Krupnikov, and John Barry Ryan ran surveys contemporaneously with the 2024 ANES @electionstudies.bsky.social asking individuals to estimate what the ANES would show are the opinions of Dems, Republicans, and the public as a whole. #MPSA2026

Who deserves a second chance? CPS's @maraceci.bsky.social and #ISRNextGeneration scholars @bromero15.bsky.social, @ch4rlotte.bsky.social and Chelsea Waddell survey prosecutors -- and argue prosecutorial discretion is a mechanism of democratic boundary-making. #MPSA2026

📢 Call for Nominations: 2026 #CSES Awards 📢 Recognizing outstanding scholarship using CSES data: 🏆 GESIS Klingemann Prize 📄 David Howell Award We welcome nominations across regions, methods, & career stages. ⌛️Learn more & submit by April 22: cses.org/2026/03/06/2...

Survey experiments show that structural accounts of inequality make white respondents angrier, boosting engagement and donations—revealing how race and emotions drive local political mobilization. Don't miss @hilaryizatt.bsky.social, @zoewithoutawhy.bsky.social and @francy-lunadiaz at #MPSA2026

For more than 20 years, the EITM summer institute has provided advanced training in political science to bridge the gap between theory and empirical data. We spoke with 22 participants about the experience: cpsblog.isr.umich.edu?p=3615 @cjfariss.bsky.social

@mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social, Alee Lockman, @klunztrujillo.bsky.social: We show that adults who grew up in rural American communities–regardless of their current place of residence–are more likely to identify with the Republican Party and as conservatives. #MPSA2026

What to read before #MPSA2026? CPS's @lowande.bsky.social and Cesi Cruz will participate in authors-meet-critics sessions on "How Congress Confronts Presidential Power" and "How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections." @timfrye.bsky.social, @szakonyi.bsky.social, @uofmpress.bsky.social

At #MPSA2026: Mostafa El Sharkawy and @umisrcps.bsky.social director @profpjones.bsky.social explore the relationship between state enactment of religious regulation and threat from terrorism -- by creating a new measure of threat perception.

Thanks for continuing to read, cite, and share this paper. It remains controversial in some corners of the discipline, but I stand by it completely. Many Black folks don’t use terms “liberal” and “conservative,” which makes the liberal-conservative scale a noisy tool for studying Black politics.

Businesses increasingly embrace polarizing political messages. AI-driven algorithms reward emotional engagement and selectively amplify messages among sympathetic audiences—turning polarization into a profitable competitive strategy. #ISRNextGeneration scholar Jun Fang presents at #MPSA2026 #Polisky

NEW SHIFT KEY Why didn’t the Inflation Reduction Act survive? I spoke to @agazmararian.bsky.social, the coauthor of a buzzy new paper on the subject, about why the law failed to create a coalition to protect it — and what that means for future US climate policy. heatmap.news/podcast/shif...

New paper @jhppl.bsky.social (w/ Michael Shepherd & Alee Lockman) where we find Americans who grew up (socialized) in rural areas are more likely to own guns, support the NRA, & hold more conservative firearm policy attitudes over the lifespan, even after moving away. 1/ doi.org/10.1215/0361...

🚨 the best state policy & public opinion database is now online. ~200 (!!!) state policies and 80 public opinion series on abortion, labor, taxes, environment, guns, education… dynamicdemocracy.shinyapps.io Massive public goods provision from @devincaughey.bsky.social & @chriswarshaw.bsky.social

Presenting methodological advances at #MPSA2026: elections forensics expert Walter Mebane and #ISRNextGeneration alum Fabricio Vasselai present an R package that implements nearly all proposed techniques to detect election fraud. Follow @umisr.bsky.social for leading research on democracy.

👀 Using GPS data from 200,000 smartphones, Adam Rauh shows Republicans have smaller, less-diverse activity spaces and spend more time in politically, racially and economically similar neighborhoods, suggesting the existence of asymmetrical echo chambers. #MPSA2026.

#ISRNextGeneration scholar Katie Nissen, an expert on framing, narratives, and environmental communication, presents at #MPSA2026 on the effect of optimism and pessimism on climate policy attitudes.

CPS postdoc Heonuk Ha, expert on AI-related rulemaking, will present new work using descriptive & computational text analysis, with @dschiff.bsky.social at #MPSA2026-- analyzing how ideology, authority, and capacity shape the scope and content of AI governance.

Listening to interesting talk by @joshpasek.com on motivated reasoning

Dear ANES community, the link below introduces our new Board of Advisors, led by Jamie Druckman. Jamie follows John Aldrich, who deftly chaired the Board for nearly 2 decades. This new group will guide us through the 2028 election cycle. Our deepest thanks to outgoing and incoming Board members!

@agazmararian.bsky.social: Federal leadership can be lost in the "fog of messaging." Gazmararian et al find Biden-Era clean energy investment policies had limited political returns: Voters overwhelmingly attributed new clean energy projects to their governors. news.umich.edu/voters-credi...

Michael Traugott: The historical pattern in the House is that the incumbent president’s party loses seats in the midterm election.The president’s party gained seats in only 2 midterms after WWII-- after Clinton's impeachment and the 9/11 attacks when Bush was in office. cpsblog.isr.umich.edu?p=3590

It’s now official. I’ll be publishing my first book, Respectability Politics, w/ @uchicagopress.bsky.social! Proud to join a press w/ a strong lineage in Black studies & Black politics, including Cohen’s Boundaries of Blackness, which has deeply inspired my work. Now to get these revisions done.

"Revisiting Ideology Measures in Political Surveys" by Ken Kollman and John E. Jackson. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Join us for Research Ethics Day! Today we're featuring session 3, Ensuring Research Integrity in a Changing Environment. Speakers: Dr. Kimberly Kirkpatrick @umnresearch.bsky.social Dr. Arthur Lupia @umichresearch.bsky.social Dr. Susan Garfinkel (Research Integrity Partners) z.umn.edu/RED26s

You are invited to join us for a conversation with Dr. Cesi Cruz of the University of Michigan, centering on efforts to counter political polarization with a focus on her research in the Philippines. Lunch will be provided. Register now! bit.ly/4tA463R

Scholarship applications the 2026 ICPSR Summer Program close Sunday! Over $400k in scholarships available! Apply by March 1. For more details: myumi.ch/ICPSRscholarships #SumProg26 #ICPSR #QuantitativeMethods #ScholarshipOpportunities #GraduateStudies #DataScienceEducation #ResearchTraining