Big thanks to @mattgrossmann.bsky.social for the invitation to discuss my new book!

Did incumbent politicians benefit from the influx of federal spending during the pandemic? We use an IV strategy to show that incumbents performed better in places that received more aid due to their overrepresentation in Congress. @stanveuger.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Hey #PoliSci folks and @apsa.bsky.social attendees! As placement director, I'm excited to let you know about some of our excellent UCLA job candidates on the market this year. Please take a look and share widley. #psjminfo

MIT Political Science is hiring this fall, with junior lines in both American Politics (members.apsanet.org/CAREERS/eJob...) and IR. Please share widely!

Thrilled to share my new publication @epsrjournal.bsky.social! When we think of lobbying, we often picture big businesses or NGOs. But regional governments lobby, too! But what makes govts-as-lobbyists successful? I study intergovt lobbying success based on a multi-year data collection effort

Congrats to the authors @andreucasas.bsky.social, @oms279.bsky.social, @jpayson.bsky.social, @jatucker.bsky.social, Richard Bonneau, & Jonathan Nagler. The paper, which is accepted for publication at @thejop.bsky.social, is available here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

State Politics and Policy Quarterly is celebrating 25 years! Check out the call for proposals for this special issue dedicated to the impact of state politics research in political science and how the field has evolved over the past decades. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨News flash🚨 In a late-breaking development, UCLA political science has successfully cut a deal with Cesar Vargas Nuñez, who will be joining our roster in ‘26. This guy has it all: sharp intellect, highly productive, and an all around great human being. Big win for our department & university.

The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991. Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens. As of this morning, it’s gone.

Are Democratic leaders making cities more dangerous than Republicans? Trump + others have repeatedly made claims like this. New paper in Science Advances w/ @chriswarshaw.bsky.social, Dan Jones & Matt Harvey shows that, in short, the answer is no.

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

To celebrate the publication of our HANDBOOK OF COMPARATIVE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS and our awesome contributors, I’m kicking off a pre-holiday challenge: every day, I’ll share a short intro to one of its chapters. This is also an opportunity to connect with new colleagues, so please feel free to 📌!

Wrote a thing about mandates and presidential power. theconversation.com/presidents-o...

Some time ago and spurred on by an email from @mullinmeg.bsky.social, I recreated a bunch of local government maps that the Census Bureau once created but no longer does. They live on my website. I hope they're helpful to someone (I regularly steal them for presentations).

@nottone.bsky.social and I have made a starter pack of Junior Quant Americanists! If you want to understand American politics and policy through research by cutting-edge (mostly ABD/postdoc) researchers, then this is the list for you. Let us know who we are missing! go.bsky.app/KKmVtH6

How did different racial/ethnic groups move over the course of the campaign? Here is data from our two-wave NORC panel showing that Harris increased support over Biden among Black, Hispanic & white citizens between late winter & fall 2024.

@elizabethelder.bsky.social will present her paper, "Responsiveness to Corruption: Evidence from U.S. Local Governments," with discussant comments by @jpayson.bsky.social (please contact her for a copy)

This collaborative mapping project is amazing data viz -- my favorite part is how they how the "data" (the polygons drawn by each respondent) and the "summary" (what most ppl call a neighborhood) together. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Now out in QJPS: we find locally set minimum wages are responsive to public preferences but overshoot them and are too high in many places. But, minimum wages in states with preemption are too low. For details of our city-level minimum wage estimates, check out www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...

Excited that this project (JMP!) is now FirstView @APSR! doi.org/10.1017/S000... I show that segregation encourages the privatization of urban services. Conversely, integrated cities produce intergroup externalities that align the middle class w/ the poor in coalitions for public goods 🧵

Does decentralizing policymaking lead to a closer match between minimum wages and local preferences? Gabor Simonovits and I find evidence of "leap frogging" -- check out the October issue of QJPS: www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...

@profmusgrave.bsky.social -- can you please add me to the Polisky list? Thanks!

Join us today for our first session of the academic year! Polisky

Come be my colleague, polisky! We're hiring an assistant professor in state and local politics here at UConn. I'm on the committee and happy to answer questions about the department: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49...

Need a podcast to listen to while doing chores this weekend? @leedrutman.bsky.social, @juliaazari.bsky.social, & I had a great conversation about Accountability in State Legislatures. Learn more about state legislative elections while vacuuming the house (and senate)! shorturl.at/bdtFR #polisky

Partisan election administrators don’t tip the scales Electing a Democratic or Republican clerk doesn't change election results or turnout New #ScienceOfPolitics podcast / interview transcript with Daniel Thompson www.niskanencenter.org/partisan-ele...