I learned so much about the internecine meme wars from this book www.bloomsbury.com/us/meme-wars...

🎧🎧🎧 UAR Remixed is BACK! Tune in to hear Part 1 of our miniseries with the authors of the new symposium on the Local Politics of Public Health, streaming on all major platforms! www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/...

I can't stop thinking about this article @marissaesque.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I posted this last night, actually, on this very thing. It's the difference between democratic "rule of law" and autocratic "rule by law": jennifermercieca.substack.com/p/autocrats-...

This is the sort of thing that South Carolina did after the Civil War. To boost its white population, SC recruited immigrants from Germany and Scandinavia hdl.handle.net/2027/emu.000...

The history of garbage pickup in big cities suggests that corruption actually has some utility. Dumpster dive with us: www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/les...

Remember when the Antifederalists expressed fears that a standing army would turn against the people? The Federalists assured them not to worry because the "whole power of raising armies was lodged in the Legislature." avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century...

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A student of mine is presenting a poster at MPSA, but I won't be there. Does anyone know of student events at MPSA that I could connect her with? polisky

Are we doing cats of polisky?

Patricia Strach and I enjoyed the chance to explain how our studies of families led us to research garbage collection. It's all polisci

Thrilled to see The Politics of Trash reviewed in Journal of the American Planning Association. It sees early 20thc patterns appear in midcentury waste management planning. And says we have “a knack for storytelling and archival research.” JAPAplanning polisky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@profmusgrave.bsky.social could you please add me to the polisky list? Thanks!

TIL I learned about early 20th-century "ripper bills"--"bills which changed for partisan advantage the machinery of government" in Ohio. Never change, Ohio statehouse, never change.