Suzanne Mettler.
@smettler.bsky.social
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Political scientist. Thinking about democracy, rural-urban divide, inequality.
How to respond to Callais decision? ORGANIZE!!! Make more seats competitive! Couldn't agree more w/
@joshhuder.bsky.social
thread:
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Wonderful talking with
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Appreciated my conversation with
@paulrosenberg.bsky.social
about the rural-urban divide.
www.liberalcurrents.com/can-we-win-b...
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Jake Grumbach
3 months ago
We have a Boston Review Forum out today on the Democratic Party in a time of authoritarianism
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Princeton University Press
3 months ago
This Saturday (Jan 31) at 2:00 pm EST, see
@smettler.bsky.social
, co-author of Rural Versus Urban, give a lecture as part of the National Writers Series! She will discuss her book and how the urban-rural divide drives partisan polarization. Get tickets for this hybrid event here:
buff.ly/2QZ3VnT
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Scholars Strategy Network
3 months ago
🎥 Listen to SSN Academic Director
@smettler.bsky.social
, Cornell, and Trevor Brown,
@snfagora.bsky.social
, on how Democrats lost rural voters and what it will take to bridge the rural-urban political divide.
@anne-s-kim.bsky.social
&
@garrettepps.bsky.social
,
@washingtonmonthly.com
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How Democrats Lost Rural Voters—and How to Win Them Back
Neglect and disdain of rural voters have driven them from the Democratic party, argue authors Suzanne Mettler and Trevor Brown.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/28/how-democrats-lost-rural-voters-and-how-to-win-them-back/
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Trevor Brown & I appreciated this conversation
@washingtonmonthly.com
How Democrats Lost Rural Voters—and How to Win Them Back
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How Democrats Lost Rural Voters—and How to Win Them Back
Neglect and disdain of rural voters have driven them from the Democratic party, argue authors Suzanne Mettler and Trevor Brown.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/28/how-democrats-lost-rural-voters-and-how-to-win-them-back/
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Job Opportunity! Director of Chapters, Scholars Strategy Network. A nationwide organization (37 chapters!), aiming to improve public policy & strengthen democracy. Please spread the word about this exciting opportunity.
scholarsstrategynetwork.applytojob.com/apply/bsqzey...
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Director of Chapters - Scholars Strategy Network - Career Page
Work closely with volunteer leaders to engage and activate members and impact policy in regions across the country. Members work in colleges & universities.
https://scholarsstrategynetwork.applytojob.com/apply/bsqzeyhwPs/Director-Of-Chapters
3 months ago
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Sarah Binder
4 months ago
Powell goes full Schattschneider 🤓! Expand the scope of conflict, get audience off the sidelines & into the game. Gambit to rally political support for Fed & put Trump on defensive. Reminder that Fed depends on political support (from lawmakers, markets, judges, POTUS) to secure its “independence”
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Enjoyed this conversation with Julian Zelizer on the rural-urban political divide.
open.substack.com/pub/julianze...
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America's Rural-Urban Divide: A conversation with Suzanne Mettler, Cornell University and co-author of Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens America
A recording from Julian Zelizer's live video
https://open.substack.com/pub/julianzelizer/p/americas-rural-urban-divide-a-conversation?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Lily Mason
5 months ago
The submerged state emerges h/t
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Quinn Bornstein
5 months ago
Great book launch events today in D.C. at
@brookings.edu
and on H St for
@smettler.bsky.social
and Trevor Brown’s Rural vs. Urban from
@princetonupress.bsky.social
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Enjoyed discussing rural politics & the place-based divide w/
@mikealbertus.bsky.social
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open.substack.com/pub/michaela...
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Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy
My interview with Cornell Professor Suzanne Mettler and Johns Hopkins Fellow Trevor Brown on their new book on America's growing rural-urban split
https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelalbertus/p/rural-versus-urban-the-growing-divide?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=cgs3x
5 months ago
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Thank you for this generous post,
@meredithconroy.bsky.social
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Thank you,
@mattnelsen.bsky.social
for this very thoughtful post!
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Ezra Klein
7 months ago
Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The Rural Power Behind Trump’s Assault on Blue Cities The political scientist
@smettler.bsky.social
examines the roots of America’s urban-rural divide and how Democrats can win back rural voters.
open.spotify.com/episode/2zQ9...
youtu.be/M9bjypc1rS4?...
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Why Rural America Turned on the Democratic Party | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
https://youtu.be/M9bjypc1rS4?si=lljlLxDacATELek2
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My conversation with Ezra Klein on Rural Versus Urban, with Trevor Brown.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/o...
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Princeton University Press
7 months ago
@smettler.bsky.social
, co-author of Rural Versus Urban with Trevor E. Brown, appeared on
@cnn.com
this morning with
@audiecornish.bsky.social
to discuss her new book.
next.frame.io/share/3e8b90...
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Tess Callahan
7 months ago
Honored to interview Dr. Suzanne Mettler about Rural vs. Urban, co-written Trevor Brown.
@princetonupress.bsky.social
The book unpacks the current threat to democracy and how it can be repaired. A must-read for the moment at hand.
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Dr. Suzanne Mettler on Saving Democracy Before it's Too Late
The divide that threatens democracy can be repaired. Rural vs. Urban shows how.
https://tesscallahan.substack.com/p/dr-suzanne-mettler
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Miranda Yaver
7 months ago
Thrilled that my copy of Rural Versus Urban arrived in the mail today. Big congrats to
@smettler.bsky.social
and Trevor Brown! I can hardly wait to read it.
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Look what just arrived! Our book, Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide that Threatens Democracy, is due out Sept. 23.
www.amazon.com/Rural-Versus...
9 months ago
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Mallory SoRelle
9 months ago
I'll be returning to campus this fall as the inaugural Tony and Teddie Brown Associate Professor of Public Policy. I am excited to have earned tenure at Duke and humbled to receive this specific endowed chair (more on that later). I've been sitting on this news for a while now...
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Scholars Strategy Network
11 months ago
In this
@usnews.com
op-ed, ‪@nadiabell.bsky.social,
@elianabuckner.bsky.social
‬& Benjamin Sommers argue the proposed work requirements for
#Medicaid
and
#SNAP
in the "Big, Beautiful Bill" could cost millions their
#healthcare
and food aid. Learn more. ⤵️
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https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2025-05-27/jobs-work-medicaid-big-beautiful-bill
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In fact, those changes to the rules & procedures for Medicaid ARE actually benefit cuts...BIG cuts. The most vulnerable Americans' basic needs are being sacrificed to pay for tax cuts for the rich. Thanks
@pamherd.bsky.social
&
@donmoyn.bsky.social
for revealing it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/o...
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Opinion | Republicans Will Use Paperwork to Kick Americans Off Health Care
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/opinion/republicans-medicaid-paperwork.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
12 months ago
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Eric Michael Garcia
12 months ago
Reminder that the CBO says that if the Reconciliation Bill goes through: -7.6 million people would lose coverage because of Medicaid changes -1 million would lose it because of changes to the ACA from E&C -2.1 million would lose it because of changes by Ways and Means
www.cbo.gov/publication/...
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Estimated Budgetary Effects of a Bill to Provide for Reconciliation Pursuant to Title II of H. Con. Res. 14, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Budget on May 18, 2025
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61420
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Catherine Rampell
12 months ago
CBO just released its own preliminary estimates for how rich vs poor are affected by the House budget bill. Roughly same conclusion: poorest get poorer, richest get richer.
www.cbo.gov/system/files...
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Andrew S. Kelly
12 months ago
The GOP’s rhetoric isn’t as aggressive this time around, but their policy goals are similarly destructive. The low-end estimate is $792B cut from Medicaid—with $370B of those cuts targeting the ACA’s Medicaid expansion. They’re coming hard for both Medicaid and the ACA—and 10m will lose insurance.
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Kim Weeden
12 months ago
One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.
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Research at risk: Life-saving heart pumps for babies | Cornell Chronicle
After receiving a stop-work order from the federal government, the future of a device to help children with heart defects is uncertain.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/05/research-risk-life-saving-heart-pumps-babies
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Thank you,
@milophd.bsky.social
for revealing the submerged state...so many valued services, but government's role in providing them is unseen. What will happen once they are gone?
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Robinson Meyer
about 1 year ago
People will say this is the result of a presidential election, and that’s partly true. But the Constitution does not delegate tariff power to the president, and he is only able to impose these ruinous, peace-destroying taxes because Congress has let him do so. Congress can end this at any time.
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Blue Fairylicious Girlđź§š
about 1 year ago
Corey Booker: “IF AMERICA HASN'T BROKEN YOUR HEART, THEN YOU DON'T LOVE HER ENOUGH." 💙🥹
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Josh Zingher
about 1 year ago
The Trump Administration is trying to forge a personalist authoritarian regime and honestly the conditions for success are there. However, they're *way* out over their skis at the moment. Their pure recklessness is making their path to success way harder 1/x
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Thomas M. Keck
about 1 year ago
What I learned at the Global Summit on Constitutionalism
www.cnysolidarity.org/2025/03/22/g...
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What I learned at the Global Summit on Constitutionalism
I’m just back from attending the 2025 Global Summit on Constitutionalism at the University of Texas at Austin. This is an academic conference that assembles 300 scholars from around the world for t…
https://www.cnysolidarity.org/2025/03/22/global-summit-on-constitutionalism/
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Pam Herd
about 1 year ago
The guy in charge of SSA is a mid-level manager, who's overseeing 20 percent of the federal budget, and yesterday tried to shutter the agency because he didn't understand the plain text of a court order.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Adam Bonica
about 1 year ago
1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
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Professors, planning to teach a course about democracy? The American Democracy Collaborative is sharing our syllabi for courses in US & comparative politics!
americandemocracycollaborative.org
w/
@tompepinsky.com
@povertyscholar.bsky.social
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AMERICAN DEMOCRACY COLLABORATIVE
Research, Teaching, Dialogue
https://americandemocracycollaborative.org/
about 1 year ago
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Scholars Strategy Network
about 1 year ago
🔉The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to cut 80,000 jobs from the Department of Veterans Affairs. For reporters covering these developments and what they mean for veterans and VA services, the following experts are available for comment. ⤵️ 🔗Connect:
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Pam Herd
about 1 year ago
You can eliminate programs w/o altering legislation by adding burden. Make no mistake, this is exactly what they're doing to Social Security. They're cutting core administrative capacity required for people to actually apply for, and receive, benefits.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Social Security, facing pressure from DOGE, weighs big cuts to phone service
Agency considers ending phone program that helps with claims processing and is used by millions of elderly and disabled Americans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/12/social-security-phone-doge-elderly-disabled/
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Peter M. Shane
about 1 year ago
Judge Howell has held that Trump's firing of Gwynne Wilcox from the NLRB was unlawful, that Humphrey's Executor is still governing law, and declares her discharge a violation of the separation of powers.
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Scholars Strategy Network
about 1 year ago
📢 The Trump administration has announced cuts to the Social Security Administration's workforce. For reporters covering these cuts, and other changes, and their potential impact to Social Security, the following experts are available for comment. ⤵️ 🔗
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Pam Herd
about 1 year ago
The agency has already been cut to the bone. Customer service staff has been cut by 19% even as beneficiaries have increased by 25%. Disability claims processing has increased from 100 days in 2012 to 240 days in 2024. Thousands of people die waiting to get disability benefits they’ve earned
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Adam Sheingate
about 1 year ago
Lots of GOP House members have large numbers of federal employees in their districts. Yes, DC metro is hardest hit by DOGE, but the pain from cuts will be felt across the country.
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Scholars Strategy Network
about 1 year ago
In this
@washingtonmonthly.com
piece, Daniel Carpenter, Paul Pierson, and Eric Schickler examine how the Trump administration’s actions—and Congress’ failure to push back—are undermining the republican system the Founders envisioned. Learn more:
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/02/21/m...
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Madison’s Constitution is Coming Undone | Washington Monthly
Trump and Musk are testing the founder’s assumptions as never before. How did we get to this moment?
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/02/21/madisons-constitution-is-coming-undone/
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Scholars Strategy Network
about 1 year ago
📢 With the recent closure of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) offices, the agency’s future is uncertain. For reporters covering these developments & their potential impact, the following experts are available for comment. ⤵️
#CFPB
#ConsumerProtection
đź”—Connect:
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Excited & honored to lead the Scholars Strategy Network! A wonderful organization, uniquely prepared for this moment, w/37 chapters nationwide!
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over 1 year ago
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Larry Glickman
over 1 year ago
One valuable task for the Democratic Party in 2025 would be to foreground the many important things that government does to improve life, especially for the vulnerable. Time to put a spotlight on what
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Suthan Krishnarajan
over 1 year ago
Book 1:
@smettler.bsky.social
& Lieberman explore five crises in the US: the 1790s, the Civil War, the Gilded Age, the Great Depression, & Watergate. In each period, democracy was threatened by various challenges: Polarization, nativism, inequality, & executive aggrandizement.
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