Joel Sievert
@jsievert.bsky.social
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Political Scientist at Texas Tech. Dogs & coffee make me happy
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Happy (official) publication day to one of my favorite projects ever! tldr: Congressional votes on early federal infrastructure policy was influenced by partisan, distributive, and racial considerations
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The Road Jess Travelled
about 3 hours ago
When women & girls said they would feel unsafe encountering a random man in the woods, it's because of things like this. Men constantly inform us they're predators & consider that normal then act indignant we find them unsafe for children, unsafe for women, & creepy.
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Credit to
@tobyjrider.bsky.social
for coming up with my new favorite retort: You have brought me a solution with no problem.
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To the past version of myself who signed me up to teach thee graduate stats course next semester... We are not friends anymore!
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Rachel Porter
1 day ago
"The Consequences of Elite Action Against Elections" is now in print at BJPS (
@bjpols.bsky.social
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doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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Jacob S. Lewis
9 days ago
šØJOB ALERTšØ Washington State University is HIRING an Associate or Full Professor of American Politics who will also serve as the Director of our excellent Foley Institute. An awesome opportunity to be right at the nexus of research and policy!
wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...
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Associate Professor/Professor
Online applications must be received before 11:59pm on: December 7, 2025 If a date is not listed above, review the Applicant Instructions below for more details. Available Title(s): 280-NN_FACULTY - A...
https://wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jobs/job/Associate-Professor-Professor_R-14220
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Ian M Hartshorn
2 days ago
People getting mad here about anyone saying it's good that MTG and Trump are fighting. I teach democratization every semester. The first slide says 'elite fracture.' That's always where it starts. It's good when people with bad politics are fighting one another.
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Opinion Today
4 days ago
America First? Some Trump Supporters Worry Thatās No Longer the Case. (Zolan Kanno-Youngs and
@tylerpager.bsky.social
, NYT-unlocked)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
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America First? Some Trump Supporters Worry Thatās No Longer the Case.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/us/politics/trump-supporters-america-first-concerns.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1E8.K1vJ.tWSBNeEkZMtj
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š¦ Seth Masket š¦
3 days ago
The Index of Consumer Sentiment is now around 50, a record low. It was near 100 at this point in 2017. Trump's Gallup approval at this point in 2017 was 38. It's 41 now.
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John Sides
4 days ago
The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions is now acceptable applications for the 2026-27 year. Please share and encourage people to apply! Post Doctoral application
apply.interfolio.com/177609
Visiting Scholar application
apply.interfolio.com/177613
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Jack Lucas
4 days ago
Happening TODAY! The latest CMB Online Research Workshop event, featuring the great Tyler Simko. Email me if you'd like to attend and I'll share the link!
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Jonathan Ladd
14 days ago
Since 2015, Trump has never been able to turn out his low-political engagement voters (who are very hard to reach in polls) in elections when his name is not on the ballot. The pattern continues.
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Omar Wasow
10 days ago
Earlier this year, we showed Trump built a remarkable āplutopopulistā coalition in his campaigns, drawing money from both wealthy elites and an unprecedented surge of small, first-time donors. With Tuesdayās elections, though, that coalition seems to be fraying. What happened? 1/
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Ryan D. Williamson
11 days ago
Our edited volume is now available for preorder! We have a fantastic collection of contributors and think this a great book for any number of American politics classes.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
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Divided Nation
In recent decades, US politics has become increasingly fraught and divided. This book evaluates the current state of American democracy, centered on the theme of polarization and dysfunction, through ...
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/9783111591902/html
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Debbie Schildkraut
11 days ago
The book is real! To celebrate, I will give out five copies to interested early career folks. DM if youād like one.
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Adam Bonica
11 days ago
Itās no walk in the park to serve in Congress, and I donāt begrudge Golden for stepping away. But it seems likely that his polling numbers among his own constituents factored into the decision. Favorability: 16% favorable | 41% unfavorable Deserves to be Re-elected?: 26% does | 57% doesnāt
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John Cluverius
12 days ago
Dear
@raygunsite.com
please make a limited run of POLLING IS NOT A CRIME shirts (with St. Ann's face or not) please and thank you
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Filibuster reform comes to the Texas US Senate GOP Primary
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Cornyn open to filibuster reform; Hunt, Paxton want it gone
The president has sharpened his calls for Senate Republicans to kill the longstanding legislative maneuver, saying the GOPās electoral success could hinge on it.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/06/cornyn-paxton-hunt-filibuster-trump-texas-senate-gop-primary/?utm_campaign=trib-social&utm_content=1762450209&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawN5ut5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETF1T3oxbmRyakl0V05rU2I2c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsH9JJRiNuApOpC0WXeY5vsmFDT6GqLb3IfVNqdO0fU-LFbJ7xj3wsQfXrCS_aem_GmPW5mkVwisoAybkaDdFaQ
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Ballotpedia.org
12 days ago
At least 15 incumbents lost in the state legislative elections in New Jersey & Virginia, with 6 New Jersey contests still uncalled as of 5:30 pm EST on 11/5. Thatās the most general election incumbent defeats in an odd year since 21 were defeated in 2011. All 15 defeated incumbents were Republicans.
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Carl Quintanilla
13 days ago
ā.. There were no counties or cities (as of writing) that moved right relative to four years ago. On average, they instead moved 13 points to the left.ā
@pbump.com
#Virginia
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Happy to report that my students also got a good laugh out of the original tweet from the KY SOS
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All jokes aside, this is a great example of Daniel Hopkins' point that nationalization is driven, in part, by people being more engaged with national rather than local politics.
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Taniel
14 days ago
CONFIRMED: Georgia Democrats have won their first statewide elections for non-federal offices since *2006.* The two Dem challengers, Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard, have ousted two GOP Republican commissioners on the state's utility commission.
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Nick Valentino
17 days ago
ANES Data Release!
electionstudies.org/data-center/...
The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.
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https://electionstudies.org/data-center/2016-2020-2024-panel-merged-study/
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Steven Romalewski
14 days ago
The Ctr for Urban Research at
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
(led by
@jomoko.bsky.social
) has prepared an online map for tonight's NYC mayoral results. Link below in
#thread
. For now the map is blank, but it'll fill in w/unofficial returns tonight. The map will do more than show the 2025
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR
16 days ago
To mark the 20th anniversary of
@politicsgenderj.bsky.social
past and current journal editors were asked to identify some of their favorite articles - cup.org/4gbsfr7 Where not
#OpenAccess
these articles are free to read until the end of 2025.
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November is off to a mixed start. Pro: article acceptance Con: toddler wakes up at 5 am Win some, lose some.
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Trevon Logan
16 days ago
Me: āThe fixation on causal estimates is not the appropriate direction social scienceā¦What descriptive analysis provides us with are facts. Facts are nouns. Causal analysis gives us contextual estimates. They are adjectives. In the grammar of social science, we should prefer nouns to adjectives.ā
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I know we wrote that all politics are national, but this seems a step too far.
www.espn.com/college-foot...
17 days ago
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Ryan D. Williamson
18 days ago
For anyone interested in nationalization, have we got a book for you:
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Kevin Banda
18 days ago
Fondly remembering the time that a reviewer wrote to me and
@jsievert.bsky.social
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Reviewer: Only the Democrats talk about filibuster reform. Someone owes me and
@kevinkbanda.bsky.social
an apology!
rollcall.com/2025/10/31/t...
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Trump calls for Senate 'nuclear option' to end government shutdown - Roll Call
Trump called for Senate Republicans to end the shutdown by using the so-called "nuclear option" to eliminate the legislative filibuster.
https://rollcall.com/2025/10/31/trump-calls-for-senate-nuclear-option-to-end-government-shutdown/
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YouGov America
20 days ago
Economist/YouGov Oct 24-27: Government spending % of Americans who want the government to increase spending on: Veterans 72% Social Security 69% Medicare 64% Education 62% Medicaid 55% The environment 53% SNAP 47% National defense 40% Foreign aid 21%
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I am once again upset with whoever it was that assigned all this reading for my grad seminar. Heās the worst.
21 days ago
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Jonathan S. Jones
21 days ago
Itās officially pub day for Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and Americaās First Opioid Crisis! Available at a bookshop near you. Thanks to everyone who made it possible to bring this research to life! šļø
@uncpress.bsky.social
uncpress.org/978146968953...
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Dr. Alexandra āAliā Cirone
26 days ago
The School of Public Policy at the LSE is hiring in political science! Associate or Full. I was the first political scientist hired by the SPP, come be the second!
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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Full or Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
Full or Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></...
https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/1341/0/459343/15539/full-or-associate-professor-of-political-science-and-public-policy
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Maya Sen
26 days ago
Pleased to share that the Kennedy School has been authorized to conduct a faculty search in American politics This is as an extraordinary opportunity for us - please share widely with your networks and consider applying
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15418
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Professor of Public Policy (American Politics)
Harvard Kennedy School seeks a scholar of the highest distinction to appoint as a professor of public policy, focusing on American politics, elections, and policy. We particularly welcome applications...
https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15418
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Michael Nelson
27 days ago
SPPC 2026 will be held in Chicago and has a website:
www.luc.edu/politicalsci...
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: Loyola University Chicago
https://www.luc.edu/politicalscience/sppc2026
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Don Moynihan
28 days ago
The silver lining is the Professor still has his faculty job, but this is explicitly viewpoint discrimination, a message that there is no such thing as faculty governance. All admin must be aligned with a political party. For all the talk of leftist indoctrination, this is no different from China.
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Toddler: I want apple! Me: Ok, Iāll cut one up for you. Toddler: Apple! Apple! Apple! Yay! Howās everyone elseās Sunday starting?
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Virginia Sapiro
about 1 month ago
A dinosaur talking with an NPR producer.
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Bill Kristol
about 1 month ago
Here at our local No Kings. Iād say turnout is perhaps 4X that of June. Sorry to inform Mike Johnson, I havenāt run into anyone paid to be here, or āantifa,ā or anti-American. Many veterans. Lots of attendees thanking the pair of Fairfax Country policeman strolling around keeping an eye on things.
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Fuel to finish editing this conference paper. I hope.
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Joe Ura
about 1 month ago
Re. arguments in the LA redistricting case: the Republican justices' willingness to let federal police reason from race or ethnicity to probable cause for an immigration stop and their apparent unwillingness to let Congress reason from race to anti-discriminatory election procedures is wild.
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Adventures in editing my own work: "Indeed, 53 out of the 92 bulls introduced in the House..." Although I do like the idea of MCs letting bulls loose in the House chamber.
about 1 month ago
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Ryan D. Williamson
about 2 months ago
This paper was a long time in the making, one of my favorites Iāve ever worked on, and is now live at SPPQ!
doi.org/10.1017/spq....
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Clint Peinhardt
about 1 month ago
UT Dallas is hiring in international politics, emphasis on conflict.
jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/30535
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Assistant Professor in International Relations or Comparative Politics
Position DescriptionĀ The Political Science program at The University of Texas at Dallas invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in international relations or comparative p...
https://jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/30535
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Picked the toddler up and told him we were going to get ice cream. He proceeded to chant, āIce cream! Ice cream! Ice cream!ā for the rest of the car ride.
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Me in August: Itās going to be great to get back into attending conferences. Me in October: Who thought it was a good idea to sign up to write and present all these papers?!
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