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...

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.

An incredible embarrassment for an educational institution: www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Best thing I’ve read on the assault on higher education. For the history books, whoever will be writing them.

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...

🧵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

I officially start at Duke today. I am thrilled to join and look forward to new collaborations and to engaging with colleagues and students.

Check out our article in Broadstreet about our ambitious project! www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-making...

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...

“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 @ucsandiego.bsky.social @ucnewsroom.bsky.social

@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/...

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.

I completely agree with this, no enabling in advance (looking at you Johns Hopkins)

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. @vickymurillo.bsky.social @pagefortna.bsky.social Letter: danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post...

🚨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.

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...

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.

emagar.github.io/Elites-munic... Nuevo post (1/2)

Check out my new paper w Brenton and Emiel. Just out at World Politics: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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/ dropbox.com/scl/fi/3kqnb...

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. #polisky #econsky 1/

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-... > 2024-03-04 Mo

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...

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....

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/

Also available here: franciscogarfias.com/StateBuildin...

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