Electing foreign-born legislators show more support for permissive immigration policies in the US, but not in the UK or Canada finds @jcha.bsky.social of @harvard.edu blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Free to read for a limited period from the latest issue of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics - Dilemmas in Representation: Immigration, Identity, and Political Parties - https://cup.org/4oFiQLC - @jcha.bsky.social, Justin Gest & Tom K. Wong #JREP10

🔍 A spotlight from earlier this month in LSQ: "Mechanisms of Checks and Balances: Appropriations, Congressional Committees, and Interbranch Conflict" by Jeremiah Cha (@harvard.edu) & Jon Rogowski (UChicago). Access it at the link below. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🚨 I’m officially on the job market this year! 🚨 My JMP speaks to a key question in political science: once elected, do racial minorities govern differently from their white counterparts? I study this subject in the context of local land-use policy in American cities.

#FirstView from the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics - Dilemmas in Representation: Immigration, Identity, and Political Parties - cup.org/3V9HQxH - @jcha.bsky.social, Justin Gest & Tom K. Wong #JREP10

I'll be presenting at MPSA April 5 at 8:00 AM at the Palmer House Hilton, 3rd Floor in Marshfield 💡I find that the election of minorities to city councils results in less dense housing development. Using interviews, I develop a framework to understand diversity in local politics

🚨 DATA UPDATE 🚨 @shirokuriwaki, Jim Snyder, and I have updated the Candidates in American General Elections (CAGE) dataset, extending the universe of candidates in Presidential, Congressional, and gubernatorial elections to 2022. Link: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

Can't get enough Congress in your life? Have no fear! Just released an update to our working paper on Congressional Committees and Presidential Influence. 🏛️🤝 Download the updated paper here: osf.io/4evrs

I think it’s mainly graduate students and faculty here, but a reminder that Harvard Government PS Prep is accepting applications still. Please make sure your students particularly from underrepresented backgrounds apply!

Had the opportunity to read through David Mayhew’s dissertation. Never knew his committee consisted of H. Douglas Price and Joseph Cooper!

Got a new working paper w/ @robmickey.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social tl;dr influxes of Black people during the Great Migration led Northern towns & cities to remove directly elected mayors & replace them w/ appointed city managers design: shift-share IV paper: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/r54lw...

Another government shutdown, another reminder that ideology profoundly affects the appropriations process.