Excited the first paper I worked on in grad school came out @thejop.bsky.social this fall: doi.org/10.1086/734242 I find political competition causally increases deforestation by prompting politicians to weaken bureaucratic capacity. 3 fieldwork rounds,many rejections,~a decade(?) later, it’s out! 🥲

Thanks to @ldattaro.bsky.social for this lovely write-up of Getting Better. If this sparks your interest, you can get the book open access here: policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/getting-better @profkatsmith.bsky.social @profbambra.bsky.social @pennldi.bsky.social @pennaging.bsky.social

🚨New paper out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Torben Iversen: doi.org/10.1177/0010... We empirically separate economic factors from cultural backlash as competing explanations for right-wing populism, and find evidence for the former. We define the concept of “unfunded public goods.” 🧵

…So let me get this straight: New Jersey is represented by legendary badass CORY BOOKER. While New York is stuck with Chuck “obey in advance” Schumer, and Pennsylvania has John “next Kyrsten Sinema” Fetterman. As regional rivalries go, that has really gotta sting.

Super happy to see this finally out! Coauthored with a dream team! @gustavodiaz.org Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro & Matthew S. Winters Check it out! 👇🏼 *long thread with a summary of the argument may be coming soon

2/6 🧵In @cpsjournal.bsky.social, @alicexu.bsky.social & Iversen ask if economic, rather than cultural factors, drive support for right-wing populists. Staggered DiD in the US & covid lockdowns. In states with less educated people (cannot work from home) lockdowns increase Trump support doi.org/pft7

🚨New pre-print! It builds on the State Formation seminar that I teach at Yale, benefiting from rich conversations with brilliant students. The piece tackles state formation, state building, and outlines 3 paths of future research: civil wars, international constraints, and bureaucratic capacity.

Excited to speak at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice’s webinar on climate’s influence on health, politics, and the labor force. Register here: upenn.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Two of the most important books on climate politics, which need to be read (much) more widely.

This likely confirms that the decision to arrest him was made at the highest levels of government, a terrifying return to the policies of ideological exclusion last seen used during the heights of the Cold War. A very, very worrying precedent at the start of this government.

New Broadstreet post up! Highlighting some great work rethinking common assumptions about African borders! @ricarthuguet.bsky.social @jackpaine.bsky.social and Christy Qiu www.broadstreet.blog/p/african-bo...

🚨 Call for papers 🚨 Political Economy of Climate Change and the Environment (PECE) APSA 2024 mini-conference Deadline soon: March 1st, 2024 Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... More information: static1.squarespace.com/static/59bc8... web.sas.upenn.edu/pece2024/

I don't know how many of us (political scientists) read Cohen and Dawson (1993) during grad school, but it's still one of my all-time favorite papers in REP and beyond.

Two of the greatest cities on Earth — New York City and San Francisco — are getting absolutely wrecked by decades of local and regional political mismanagement, despite having so many other things going for them.

Why did I do 7 survey experiments on the effects of racial priming on White Americans' ACA attitudes, and what can we learn from the heap of null results? A 🧵, drawn from Chp. 6 of my new book "Stable Condition: Elites' Limited Influence on Health Care Attitudes" Polisky 1/

How do Ukrainians think about self-defense against Russia? In a new paper out in the AJPS, @janinadill.bsky.social, Marnie Howlett and I find through a conjoint experiment that they are categorically against major concessions, even at very high costs of self-defense doi.org/10.1111/ajps... (1/6)

Excited that this project (JMP!) is now FirstView @APSR! doi.org/10.1017/S000... I show that segregation encourages the privatization of urban services. Conversely, integrated cities produce intergroup externalities that align the middle class w/ the poor in coalitions for public goods 🧵

📣 Deadline for EPG2024 conference in Quebec City organised by @jfmorin.bsky.social at Laval University is fast approaching. Submit your abstract by *** MONDAY, 16 October 2023 *** through the website here: www.epg2024.com polisky ipesky