Chris Karpowitz
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Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University Co-Editor-in-Chief, Political Behavior
Are you kidding me?! What an inning.
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“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands … may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
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This opinion is worth reading. Here's the portion of Judge Young's decision that concerns masked ICE officers.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Thanks to Robert Redford, not only for his movies and promotion of the arts, including the Sundance Institute, but also for providing a place just minutes from Provo to experience the extraordinary natural beauty of this area.
2 months ago
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Perspectives on Politics
2 months ago
¡¡VOLUME 23, ISSUE 3 IS NOW OUT!!
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Featuring work by:
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@janamorgan.bsky.social
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@annkristinkolln.bsky.social
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@felixlehmann.bsky.social
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@feligsantos.bsky.social
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The message is clear: don't dare to contradict Dear Leader, no matter what the facts say. Purging anyone who disagrees is a recipe for groupthink, for short-sighted and ill-informed decision-making, and for abandoning effective reality-testing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...
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Pentagon Fires the Defense Intelligence Agency Chief
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/us/politics/defense-intelligence-agency-chief-fired.html
3 months ago
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Kai Ryssdal
3 months ago
What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%
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Sarah Shugars
3 months ago
Very interesting work from
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and colleagues looking at persuasion of *voice AI* by gender. Finding point to a complicated relationship between the topic of discussion, the gender of the human discussant, and the gender cue of the AI voice
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So, you're telling me Utah is a cultural leader not just in dirty sodas but also in oversized bean bags?
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3 months ago
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Elizabeth Spiers
4 months ago
Me three months ago:
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What an unnecessary and sad loss.
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4 months ago
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Seen on my recent visit to Prague
4 months ago
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This is exactly right. Media framing of these tariffs is problematic because the comparison point is always Trump's latest (and often outlandish) threats. The proper comparison point is the current tariff, and on that score, this is a loss, not a gain.
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Your daily dose of Kansas content:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...
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Opinion | Governors Should Be the Face of the Democratic Party
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opinion/kansas-governor-democrats.html
4 months ago
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Wow.
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4 months ago
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Excited to see
@julietcarlisle.bsky.social
and Chris Weber present work from our book project (w/
@fabianneuner.bsky.social
+ Mark Ramirez) on the contestation of election results at
#ISPP2025
. We show how winning or losing elections affects support for contesting election outcomes. Follow along!
5 months ago
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Amanda Lea Robinson
6 months ago
I'm happy to share a new publication on women's representation in deliberative fora w/ Amanda Clayton, Boniface Dulani, and Katrina Kosec. We randomize the gender composition of groups tasked with discussing deforestation in Malawi. Published open access:
doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
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American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library
Women's inclusion is now the norm in global and local initiatives to combat climate change. We examine how women's representation affects climate deliberations using the case of community-managed for...
https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12994
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Four months in, and I'm already exhausted by the fact that the nation must constantly attend to the careening whims of a single individual. Whether the ideas are meant to be serious proposals or mere trolling is beside the point. Reason #1648 why the rule of law matters.
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Call for proposals! EPOVB Early-Career Fellowship deadline: July 1, 2025 Submit to Melissa R. Michelson, at
[email protected]
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Debbie Schildkraut
6 months ago
This paper is super interesting. Go read it! đź§µ
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Alex Speier
7 months ago
I feel seen.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | This common phrase is widely misused. Is it worth salvaging?
When a phrase has been misused into uselessness, maybe avoiding it is the best policy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/28/english-language-phrase-begs-question/
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Don Moynihan
7 months ago
In 2019 a BYU Japanese PhD student helped organized a fishing outing. The group caught more fish than they were allowed, but prosecutors decided not to charge him. Now, his visa is being revoked. Kudos to Rubio for keeping America safe.
www.deseret.com/utah/2025/04...
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BYU grad student from Japan has visa revoked
Attorney for computer science Ph.D. candidate believes a fishing license incident from years ago may have triggered visa revocation.
https://www.deseret.com/utah/2025/04/16/byu-grad-student-has-student-visa-revoked/
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APSA
7 months ago
Selecting for Masculinity: Women’s Under-Representation in the Republican Party Selecting for Masculinity: Women’s Under-Representation in the Republican Party By Christopher F. Karpowitz, Brigham Young University; J. Quin Monson, Brigham Young University; Jessica R. Preece, Brigham Young…
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Selecting for Masculinity: Women’s Under-Representation in the Republican Party
Selecting for Masculinity: Women’s Under-Representation in the Republican Party By Christopher F. Karpowitz, Brigham Young University; J. Quin Monson, Brigham Young University; Jessica R. Preece, Brigham Young University; Alejandra Aldridge, Brigham Young University. The gap between women’s representation in the Democratic and Republican parties has grown significantly in the last three decades.
https://politicalsciencenow.com/selecting-for-masculinity-womens-under-representation-in-the-republican-party/
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Catherine Rampell
7 months ago
Real trade wars have never been tried
wapo.st/42oniEY
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Opinion | Why are Democrats pulling their punches on Trump’s disastrous trade war?
The party is blowing its chance to mount an offensive against protectionism.
https://wapo.st/42oniEY
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Anti-intellectualism in the American government
www.npr.org/2025/04/11/n...
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Major budget cuts proposed for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The agency forecasts weather, manages fisheries, and researches the world's oceans, atmosphere, and climate. The proposed budget cuts would slash the climate work entirely.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/nx-s1-5361366/major-budget-cuts-proposed-for-the-national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration
7 months ago
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The government mistakenly and illegally deported Abrego Garcia. The questions are simple and straightforward: where is Mr. Garcia? Do you know where he is? Has the government done anything to effectuate his return? The DOJ lawyer is unable to answer these questions. Deeply alarming and Kafkaesque.
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7 months ago
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Kate Shaw
7 months ago
Princeton President Chris Eisgruber continues to be such a crucial voice -
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The University President Willing to Fight Trump
Podcast Episode · The Daily · 04/09/2025 · 39m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?i=1000702847509
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Hey, look what arrived today! I'm so pleased to have a copy of the Handbook of Innovations in Political Psychology in my hands. It was an immense pleasure to work with co-editors Cara Wong and
@ethanbusby.bsky.social
... and an amazing team of scholars who authored the chapters!
7 months ago
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Dan Hopkins
7 months ago
Deeply grateful for the opportunity to stand with fellow Penn professors from 4 departments to read the Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights, & select Federalist Papers yesterday to call us back to our founding ideals. Grateful, too, to the DP for coverage:
www.thedp.com/article/2025...
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Dan Hopkins
8 months ago
www.tufts.edu/president/sp...
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University Declaration for RĂĽmeysa Ă–ztĂĽrk
University Declaration for Rümeysa ÖztürkApril 2, 2025Dear Tufts community,Please see below a declaration by Tufts University in support of a motion filed today by Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team in Öztür...
https://www.tufts.edu/president/speeches-and-messages/04022025-university-declaration-for-rumeysa-ozturk
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hi, no thanks
8 months ago
james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country "...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
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Jonathan Ladd
8 months ago
Two-thirds of both houses of Congress could undo this whenever they want by passing a bill over Trump's veto taking all power to set tariff rates away from him. Tariffs are set by law. The Constitution gives the president no power over tariffs--only our current laws do that.
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Revive Smoot-Hawley? That's really the plan? Insanity.
8 months ago
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Chris Eisgruber is both a great constitutional scholar and an extraordinary university president. I appreciate his leadership.
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8 months ago
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Jacob T. Levy
8 months ago
Excellent excellent excellent from Princeton president and constitutional/ political theorist Chris Eisgruber. There's been far too little of this kind of thing; here's hoping others follow his good example.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia
American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/columbia-academic-freedom/682088/?gift=U6ENXdMSx-3rXawTZ5-kgEAupFFXjAZTYpHwZULdBj4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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It appears we're really going to replay Gilded Age arguments all over again.
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9 months ago
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Adam Bonica
9 months ago
The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️
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Jacob T. Levy
9 months ago
One more thing about this piece of bullsophistry by Barnett and Wurman on birthright citizenship. To the framers of the 14th Amendment, people who had, by bad actions, failed of allegiance, obedience, and amity were not a hypothetical problem. *There were hundreds of thousands of them.* 1/
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jamelle
9 months ago
worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.
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Today is not shaping up to be a great day for those of us who believe that the U.S. national interest conflicts with Russia's preferences and interests.
9 months ago
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Andrew Rudalevige
9 months ago
Ironic that those who most loudly laud originalism don't seem to have read any Federalist paper except no. 70. (Which they mostly misread.) Federalist nos. 47-49 are specifically about "separated institutions sharing powers," as Richard Neustadt put it.
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Being ok with a little unconstitutionalism because it benefits your political interests means that you don't really support the Constitution.
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10 months ago
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All students of Larry Bartels know this quote well.
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10 months ago
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Remind me again, which amendment to the Constitution gives the power of the purse to Russ Vought?
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10 months ago
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Our system doesn't work if the legislative branch abdicates its vast constitutional authority by ignoring (or minimizing) the law, instead merely deferring to the whims of a co-partisan in the executive branch.
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10 months ago
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Very helpful background about what's happening right now and the implications for our constitutional system.
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10 months ago
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Shana Gadarian
10 months ago
This is not the right framing. This is not about Democrats' analysis about whether they like what the president is doing. There are laws about the president impounding Congressional appropriated money.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Live updates: Democrats question legality of Trump’s freeze on all federal grants
Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/28/trump-presidency-news/
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