@pmclaughlin44.bsky.social and I examine public opinion of candidates using campaign funds for childcare. Based on a survey experiment, we argue the policy of allowing parents, particularly mothers, to use campaign funds to pay for childcare may reduce the gender gap in political representation.

#OpenAccess from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social - How Do US Voters Respond to Candidates Using Campaign Funds for Childcare? Evidence From a Framing Experiment - https://cup.org/47N4Fxe - Matthew J. Geras & @pmclaughlin44.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 In "How do US Voters Respond to Candidates Using Campaign Funds for Childcare?", @matthewgeras.bsky.social and @pmclaughlin44.bsky.social use a framing experiment to assess the politics of parenthood in campaigning in 🇺🇸. 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 buff.ly/uDpfP7n

Political inexperience in Congress has measurable effects on legislative outcomes. Our research finds that when districts elect political newcomers over career politicians, congressional dysfunction tends to increase. New explainer of our PNAS study: theconversation.com/amateur-hour...

Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings. Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

📚😅🎉 Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher! Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies. Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com #RStats #PyData

Authoritarians struggle to make effective policy in part because they have a bottleneck of attention. If no one but the king can make decisions, every decision must wait in line. Meanwhile, things get missed and errors accumulate.

This is a fantastic list of papers on properly dealing with control variables (and other related methodological issues) in social science (and #polisky specifically)! I put it all in a public Zotero group library here www.zotero.org/groups/59433...

Really cool datasets and accompanying papers The National Elections Database www.nationalelectionsdatabase.com Paper: academic.oup.com/restud/advan... Digitally Accountable Public Representation (social media posts of US officeholders 2020-2024) sites.psu.edu/dapr/ Paper: osf.io/preprints/os...

NEW: Friends of Neri Alvarado, rotting in a Salvadoran prison on Trump's orders, made a video highlighting his volunteer work helping neurodiverse children learn to swim. Neri was sent there after someone at ICE thought his autism awareness tattoo was a gang tattoo. Vid posted by Noah Lanard on X.

2/🧵 Here is the breakdown by ideological groupings. While liberal judges heard more cases (due to geography and venue selection), the consistency of rulings across ideological lines demolishes the narrative that judicial decisions against Trump reflect political bias.

Mandatory high school civics class that isn’t just like “how a bill becomes law” or whatever but also “how NOAA powers your phone’s weather app” and “NIH helped make your asthma inhaler”

The average American voter thinks that the government is too big but that it should spend more money on everything it does. This explains a decent share of the political chaos of this country.

can't be stressed enough how stuff like this makes policymaking so much more difficult in the future. think you passed a bill appropriating funds over ten years? maybe you did, maybe you didn't!

I can't speak for others, but I used to be like this. One thing that the 6+ year grind to earn a PhD and develop real expertise on a subject gave me was a respect for others doing the hard work to develop domain-specific expertise.

From our new issue: "The Distributive Politics of Grants-in-Aid" by Leah Rosenstiel. #ASPRNewIssue https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/distributive-politics-of-grantsinaid/222CF971123CED4D22ACDF2033D37E9A

A great @psjeditor.bsky.social paper from Lewallen, Park and @seanmtheriault.bsky.social examines when members of Congress use hearings to grandstand. They find more grandstanding in solution (legislating) oriented hearings, with variation across topics. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New CongressData update with its r packages & web app: cspp.ippsr.msu.edu/congress/ We now have 1,000 variables at the district-member-year level, including 9 new data sources with area crosswalks, activist presence, primaries, environmental data, broadband, & legislative style

🏅In one of our most read articles this week - "More Money, Less Credit?" - @pmclaughlin44.bsky.social utilizes survey experiments to investigate potential gender bias in congressional credit claiming. Available 🌟 #OpenAccess 🌟 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...