🚨 New paper with Jie Ma and @keithschnak.bsky.social: Democratic Accountability with Citizen Coproduction As always: read it, cite it, love it! Link: osf.io/preprints/os...

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

Might know some people with papers on dark money 👀

Excited for this new Element in Gender in Politics. Download it for free now 🥳 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Dark Money and Politician Learning (w/ @keithschnak.bsky.social) now online at @thejop.bsky.social: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Some thoughts on early executive action, and Trump's likely flood thereof, in @goodauth.bsky.social. Among other things: issuing a "record setting" number of Day 1 executive orders will not be very hard. goodauthority.org/news/trump-e...

I’m excited to share DIME v4.0 is live! This release covers through the 2024 cycle and contains records for 850M+ itemized political contributions and ideological scores for millions of candidates, PACs, and donors. stanford.io/3DJDCYm

Cool paper alert 🚨

Very happy this is out! I'm very proud of this paper. As always: read it, cite it, love it!

The institutional foundations of the power to persuade by Carlo Prato and Ian R. Turner is now available in Early View. @carloprato.bsky.social ajps.org/2024/12/10/t...

Where Ian Turner and I argue that weakening congressional oversight may actually undermine presidential attempts to influence bureaucrats

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Congratulations, @ianrturner.bsky.social for receiving one of this year's Poorvu Innovation Awards in recognition of his excellence in teaching. news.yale.edu/2024/02/12/f...

New paper with Ben Noble: "Presidential Leadership and Legislative Polarization." We study incentives for presidents to "go public" to influence legislative policymaking across various political environments. As always, read it, cite it, love it! osf.io/preprints/soca…

APSA Formal Theory Section Awards Get your nominations (self-nominations encouraged) by MARCH 1. Send nominations straight to the committee.

New paper with Hannah Simpson: "Guilt and Pleading Guilty": osf.io/h9wnd To shamelessly tie it to current events, consider the following: most criminal cases are settled by plea bargaining, and the evidence against Sam Bankman-Fried was overwhelming. So why did he go to trial?

Join me for my hackathon where I teach you how to reconvert Mathematica output to positive numbers when using FullSimplify

I'm hiring a predoctoral fellow! The fellow will work with me on my solo projects and with me @hlw.bsky.social and Ariel White on collaborative projects. Please share with colleagues, friends, and potentially interested students and reach out with questions! tobin.yale.edu/opportunitie...

Planning your Spring syllabi? Doing research on special interest politics? Need some sick theory in your life? @keithschnak.bsky.social and I got you: osf.io/preprints/so... As always: read it, *cite it*, love it

Finally, hockey is back 🏒