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Associate Prof of Political Science at Duke University
http://franciscogarfias.com/
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Lauren Prather
about 1 month ago
Excited to share the launch of my new center at UCSD focused on trust and transparency in U.S. elections. We will be supporting research on election administration and voter confidence through research-practice partnerships. More to come!
today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san...
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UC San Diego Launches Nonpartisan Center to Build Trust in US Elections
The Center for Transparent and Trusted Elections, with the support of a $2.5 million grant from the Election Trust Initiative, will test new ways to strengthen public confidence in U.S. elections acro...
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san-diego-launches-nonpartisan-center-to-build-trust-in-u.s-elections
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Don Moynihan
about 2 months ago
Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.
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Aditya Dasgupta
4 months ago
An incredible embarrassment for an educational institution:
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Columbia Expels, Suspends Student Protesters
The move comes during reports that the institution is nearing a deal with the Trump administration to restore hundreds of millions in federal funding.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/07/22/columbia-expels-suspends-student-protesters
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Scott Gehlbach
4 months ago
Best thing I’ve read on the assault on higher education. For the history books, whoever will be writing them.
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Arin Dube
4 months ago
A timely and trenchant piece by Suresh Naidu. When future generations sift through the wreckage of our era, they’ll find it strewn with the institutional and personal failures of leaders both great and small.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
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Opinion | Columbia’s Administrators Are Fooling Themselves
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opinion/trump-columbia-deal-professor.html
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Joshua Tucker
4 months ago
🧵1/ 🚨 A new kind of political science textbook has arrived—and it might just disrupt the entire textbook industry. It’s called A Political Science Experiment, and here’s why you should care. 👇 🔗
politicsexperiment.com
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Home Page - A Political Science Experiment
https://politicsexperiment.com
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I officially start at Duke today. I am thrilled to join and look forward to new collaborations and to engaging with colleagues and students.
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7 months ago
Check out our article in Broadstreet about our ambitious project!
www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-making...
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The Making of America: migration in colonial times
By Leticia Arroyo-Abad (CUNY) and Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez (Yale)
https://www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-making-of-america-migration-in?r=14ocbm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Don Moynihan
7 months ago
New, from me: Marco Rubio used to boast that he was banned from China, calling it a totalitarian state. Now he combines a) new surveillance capabilities to monitor and punish international students, with b) little accountability or due process. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...
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The Attack on International Students
New surveillance and punishment systems are a warning to us all
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack-on-international-students
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Claire Adida
7 months ago
“If universities are not willing to stand up for the free speech and academic freedom of their students and faculty, then what, if any, values do they stand for?” cc
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@ucnewsroom.bsky.social
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Claire Adida
8 months ago
@ucsandiego.bsky.social
should follow the Tufts Fletcher faculty recommendation that universities join forces to file a class action suit against this administration.
reason.com/volokh/2025/...
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Universities Should Challenge Trump's Speech-Based Deportations of Students in Court [Updated]
The Trump administration has been detaining and trying to deport immigrant and foreign students for their First-Amendment protected speech. That
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/03/30/universities-should-challenge-trumps-speech-based-deportations-of-students-in-court/
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Michael Yarbrough (he/him)
8 months ago
This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
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Paul Guinnessy
8 months ago
I completely agree with this, no enabling in advance (looking at you Johns Hopkins)
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Elizabeth N. Saunders
8 months ago
NEW: Senior polisci colleagues @ Columbia endorse our letter on how we would respond to the Trump attack. For expidiency we 5 did not ask for other signatures. Grateful for strong show of unity.
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Letter:
danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post...
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Didac Queralt
8 months ago
🚨New pre-print! It builds on the State Formation seminar that I teach at Yale, benefiting from rich conversations with brilliant students. The piece tackles state formation, state building, and outlines 3 paths of future research: civil wars, international constraints, and bureaucratic capacity.
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From Territorial Consolidation to Bureaucratic Dominance: The Long Arc of State Development | Annual Reviews
Our understanding of state development—a term that encompasses both state formation and state building—has grown significantly in the last two decades. In this review, I outline the foundations of the...
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-polisci-070723-012505
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Adam Serwer
9 months ago
The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run
The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/mahmoud-khalil-ice-detention/682001/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8DDw44YzRHjgxPrwq7JUGjk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Adam Przeworski
9 months ago
I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold
open.substack.com/pub/adamprze...
It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.
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Diary
Week 1
https://open.substack.com/pub/adamprzeworski/p/diary?r=5a5q1f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Eric Magar
9 months ago
emagar.github.io/Elites-munic...
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¿Quién abogará por la reelección?
Comenzó la cuenta regresiva para dinamitar la reelección municipal consecutiva
https://emagar.github.io/Elites-municipales-reelecionistas/
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Scott Abramson
10 months ago
Check out my new paper w Brenton and Emiel. Just out at World Politics:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Horacio Larreguy
11 months ago
After years work assembling and organizing it, together with Bruno Calderón, John Marshall and José Luis Perez Castellanos, we present you the "Electoral precinct-level database for Mexican municipal elections"
osf.io/6jteh/
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Can the provision of public goods increase tax compliance? In a new working paper with Anne Brockmeyer & Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, we study a large public investment experiment and find that local public infrastructure does not improve property tax compliance in Mexico City.
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Brad DeLong
over 1 year ago
Gunpowder-Empire Fiscal Legibility & State Development: Economic History/Political Economy Seminar Francisco Garfias & Emily A. Sellars: "Fiscal Legibility & State Development" :: 2024-03-04 12:30 PST :: Philosophy 223, U.C. Berkeley…… <
braddelong.substack.com/p/gunpowder-...
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Gunpowder-Empire Fiscal Legibility & State Development: Economic History/Political Economy Seminar
Francisco Garfias & Emily A. Sellars: "Fiscal Legibility & State Development" :: 2024-03-04 12:30 PST :: Philosophy 223, U.C. Berkeley...
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/gunpowder-empire-fiscal-legibility
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Sean Gailmard
almost 2 years ago
Coming in 2024! Cover art day is a good day. There are also blurbs and you can even order a copy:
tinyurl.com/4e35mjef
Intro chapter:
www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gailmard/em...
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Pavithra Suryanarayan
about 2 years ago
Halloween update 🎃👻: NEW PAPER ALERT 👻🎃: want to learn about how recent findings in HPE are challenging our priors about the origins of state capacity? Here is my Annual Reviews on *Endogenous State Capacity*:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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What drives political centralization and state development? In a new article accepted in the AJPS, Emily Sellars and I focus on the role of fiscal legibility: the ability of central authorities to observe conditions in the periphery. A short polisky summary: 1/
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Also available here:
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Jared Rubin
about 2 years ago
First post on Blue Sky! Thought I’d start it with a thread laying out the chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy (the proofs are finally in!) The Handbook comes out in November
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