There are partisan differences in conceptions of good citizenship, with Republicans more likely to view naturalized (and non-Christian) citizens falling short of the ideal. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Newly-released footage reveals Renee Nicole Good’s last words.

Always.

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

Read my latest piece on what is happening with citizenship under Trump. Potential changes to denaturalization practices could put more naturalized Americans at risk to losing their citizenship... theconversation.com/denaturaliza...

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Well said!

In 2019, I ran a conjoint experiment asking Brits about attributes of a good citizen. We see supporters *of all parties* valuing nativity as an important characteristic of good citizenship. I suspect these views have only calcified in time. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

I think I need to say that I — a Princeton Univ. Press author that also co-wrote a Covid-19 book on how politics failed us— didn’t review this manuscript. Anyway, if you want to know why over a million people died in a tragedy of choice, see Pandemic Politics: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Oh my goodness — public libraries remain undefeated. Back home in Ohio and found myself in need of a sewing machine. Two hours later, I left my local library having completed 5 repair jobs. Just a gratitude post.

Antisemitism was always there, we just had guardrails in place that made it impolite to be publicly antisemitic. See: David Duke. But when the president declares “good people on both sides,” people feel emboldened and unashamed

Synagogues were safe until they weren’t. JCC were safe until they weren’t. Public beaches, public parks…risk is something I think about every single time I take my family to school, pray, exist as Jews

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

This is so blindly obvious when you put it this way. “Clash of Civilizations” is the biggest distraction from the mundane politics of kleptocracy and bureaucratic decay you could possibly imagine

In time for Hanukah/Christmas, Foreign Affairs includes "The Assault on the State," a book I wrote with Steve Hanson, on its list of best books of 2025. www.foreignaffairs.com/lists/best-b...

FYI: law and science, political science, and sociology all still have DDRIG programs run outside of the NSF but funded by NSF. The rest of these programs unfortunately do not. I run the political science DDRIG.

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

I see my book!!!! A salmon-colored cover was a good choice :-)

Quite an honor to be reviewed by @ajayverghese.bsky.social -- and in such great company! It was a privilege to work with Jen to bring Doing Good Qualitative Research into the world, and I’m thrilled that Ajay saw the book as the public good we hoped it would be.

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

The main innovation of this year is the integration of this new textbook, edited by @saragoodman.bsky.social and Jennifer Cyr, a fantastic all women and non-binary scholars initiative, with concise and practical introductions to "Doing Good Qualitative Research." Highly recommended!

Happy to share my latest: "How introduction programs help and hinder refugee integration: evidence from Norway", coauthored with Edit Bugge and Marte Nordanger, is now online at @scmrjems.bsky.social (a short thread) 1/9 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'm reading this new(ish) textbook and it's such an incredible project and resource. Not only is it the most constructive guide to doing (good) qualitative research I know, all of its contributors are women or nonbinary/genderqueer. Love it! Great job Jennifer Cyr & @saragoodman.bsky.social 👏

DC Comics distributed the below image to schools as a book cover in 1949, in association with the Institute for American Democracy. Also, I am contractually obligated to mention that Superman is from Cleveland :)

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Lit reviews convince the reader that your work matters by showing what it does and where it fits. An engaged, earnest reader will approach your paper with “there are 8 million papers on X, what’s new here?” Your lit review better answer that question.

“Strains bounds of propriety?” Jane Austen writing the headlines over at the Times now??

Violating the rule of law continues to be the biggest story and we cannot push it from A1. Everything — separation of powers, citizenship, rights, justice — is built upon it. When the foundation crumbles, we all fall.

Trump promised “all hell would break out” if Hamas didn’t release the hostages in January and issued his “last warning” in March. And now it’s April. And here we are. While he romanticizes the Holocaust, the remaining hostages prepare for a second Passover in captivity.

My 12 y/o son was willfully ignorant of politics until he calculated the potential cost of a Switch 2 with tariffs. Now he is radicalized.

Ask yourself: What is my proof of US citizenship? A passport? Sure, but only for 48%. Naturalization certificate? 6%. It's your birth certificate. So for the folks who change their name at marriage, this is disenfranchisement. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/u...

Here is a wonderful (ly depressing) essay by my colleague, @tesler.bsky.social, along with @johnsides.bsky.social and Colette Marcellin. Almost 80 (!) percent of Republican men think society has become too "soft and feminine". <Me, Looking around>. If only. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...

Canada should put a tariff on Americans saying they're from Canada when traveling abroad.

Yup. Still January.

Turns out a really great way to incorporate immigrants is to let them participate in the political decision-making processes that affect them. Good for integration, and good for weaving democratic norms into that process.

Join us for a chat tomorrow on nationalism and immigrant integration urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Surprising absolutely no one, Republicans think nativity is an important to being a good citizen, so much so that naturalized citizens can not overcome their "foreignness" with behavior or values and, if early reports prove correct, that Trump would reinterpret the 14th amendment to "protect."

This is finally out. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I got to speak about the GOP’s immigration priorities on Marketplace. The clip they used was “republicans are going to deliver for their base” but the other half of the sentence was “and Democrats aren’t gonna fight every fight” re: Laken Riley bill. www.marketplace.org/2025/01/13/p...

A serious question: how will comparative politics respond to the problem of under-powered research (see below)? I hope the the field will lean back into our strength (comparative case study) but I worry it will only tip toward big data. 1: from JOP: shorturl.at/aVJB2 2: from APSR: shorturl.at/sbPUi

Happy “Circling Back” Day to all who celebrate

Very honored! It is a privilege to contribute to this amazing community of scholars.