hey if you study Congress and you could use estimates of status quo AND proposal location for over a thousand bills including many which never made it to the floor, we've got 'em! www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...

This paper, now out at QJPS, was a labor of love, and Geoff, @alexanderfurnas.com and I are pleased to share it--and the data! Appreciate the opportunity to write up for @lseusablog.bsky.social, and very thankful for the Center for Effective Lawmaking in helping to improve the project!

Despite the weather and Thanksgiving travels, Dr. Howell packed the house! Many thanks to him for an engaging talk, to our community for excellent turnout, and to @theihs.org for generous support. Stay tuned for the next Politics In PAIR-spective lecture in Winter 2026...

Very, very important piece.

PAIR is so excited to welcome Rylee Crum as our first-ever PAIR Graduate Fellow! Rylee comes to us after completing a degree in Economics at Purdue. Purdue friends, if you see Rylee around, please join us in welcoming her!

PAIR is very pleased welcome to Purdue our very first Postdoctoral Fellow, Ayoung Chun! Dr. Chun (Ph.D., 2025, UCLA) will continue her work on money in politics and policymaking in Congress while with PAIR. Welcome to Purdue, Ayoung!

Friends in Indiana, mark your calendars for PAIR's 3rd Annual Constitution Day Lecture! This year, we are excited to host Pulitzer-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse (Yale). Ms. Greenhouse will speak on the Court's response to the Trump Admin's view of executive power.

As @mattyglesias.bsky.social notes today, certain interest groups certainly built the polarization machine deliberately, but @jmcrosson.bsky.social wrote this great piece for us about how many just got sucked into it, even as single-issue orgs. 1/2 hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/when-lobby...

This is an interesting paper. IG-party interactions are complex and by no means a one-way street: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Thanks to generous support from the Jack Miller Center, PAIR is pleased to announce that we will host a reading group on executive power this year, led by our faculty affiliate, Sebastian Graham! Purdue faculty, please encourage your best students to apply (there are completion incentives)!

I recall being on a panel at APSA/MPSA when someone presented a paper on Senate electoral class. Does anyone (perhaps the author!) know who that was?

Super glad to see this in print! It was a labor of love for @alexanderfurnas.com, @geofflorenz.bsky.social, and I -- we really love these data and think they have plenty of potential outside of this paper. Thanks to the Center for Effective Lawmaking for feedback! thelawmakers.org/legislative-...

This isn't evaluative in the "improvement" sense, but the coolest teaching "interview" I ever did involved sending 3 syllabi and sitting in a room for ~1 hour--answering questions about course design, readings, assignments, etc. I liked it so much that we replicated it at Purdue for a teaching line.

So many emergency orders. So little time. 🇺🇸 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Hugely important and troubling findings here -- from some of the best humans in our discipline!!

Folks on their way to MPSA: come check out PAIR's joint "Reverse" Roundtable with GRAIL! We are thrilled to be joined by @jdrackey.bsky.social and Ananda Bhatia to discuss the opportunities and challenges that AI and new tech present to legislatures.

Thanks, David!

Interest groups used to be a grubby and depolarizing force in our politics. They’re still grubby - but now, they’re also increasingly polarizing. Shed a tear for the lobbyist of yesteryear and read @jmcrosson.bsky.social important contribution to our forum on how Congress works now.

Great news--PAIR is hiring a two-year postdoc! Please consider applying or sharing with folks who might be interested! Please feel free to reach out to me with additional questions about the position, PAIR, Purdue, and Greater Lafayette careers.purdue.edu/job/PAIR-Pos...

Happy Birch-day to all who celebrate! Sen. Birch Bayh is an American hero, whose leadership was felt on an expansive list of deeply important policy areas. We are proud to work at his alma mater, and we are fortunate for all the great work he did as a Hoosier Senator!

A friendly reminder, ahead of tomorrow's extended APSA deadline: please consider listing American Political Economy as your first section! Happy to answer any questions folks may have. @cape-team.bsky.social

Merry APSA deadline eve! If you are submitting, I strongly encourage you to consider listing American Political Economy as your top section. We are making decisions very early and can release you to other sections quickly if need be - risk-free! Feel free to DM if you have questions

Hi everyone -- just wanted to give this another bump. Please register and come! We have a great list of folks who will be joining us tomorrow. See you soon!

@mpsa.bsky.social folks interested in Am. institutions & reform, the Purdue Program on American Institutional Renewal (PAIR) is co-sponsoring an institutional reform happy hour with UniteAmerica and Niskanen -- you should come! Friday at 5:00 -- register here: bit.ly/3TImer9 .

Happy birthday to Boilermaker legend, Sen. Birch Bayh! I am honored to share Purdue with Sen. Bayh, and I’m even more honored that our work at PAIR can help to venerate his great legacy as a champion of democratic institutions.

Comparative leg friends, question for you. I'm constructing #MPSA2024 panels, and I'm wondering: do you prefer feedback from other comparativists, or do you like panels that bridge Congress/states/comp on the same themes? My preference is the latter, but I'm a man of the people :)

A friendly reminder that today is the (actual) last day to submit to @mpsa.bsky.social ! A special nudge to my Leg Institutions friends :)