Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

We're hiring for a post-doctoral fellow in political science. A core part of the role is teaching on a core comparative politics course with amazing folk like @msands.bsky.social @pavisuri.bsky.social (and me!). tinyurl.com/5n743sma #psjobs

Polisky Barnard 1-year term position 2024/25 Comparative Politics—contact Sheri Berman [email protected] for more info: teach 5 undergrad courses esp democracy/autocracy, backsliding; social movements; Euro, Latin Am, South Asian and/or Middle Eastern politics. Must have PhD by start date, $82K

"There’s also been a persistent sense of disbelief that Indigenous people could be responsible for this futuristic version of urban living...Canadians aren’t used to seeing Indigenous people occupy places that are socially, economically or geographically valuable, like Sen̓áḵw."

🚨 Call for papers 🚨 Political Economy of Climate Change and the Environment (PECE) APSA 2024 mini-conference Deadline soon: March 1st, 2024 Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... More information: static1.squarespace.com/static/59bc8... web.sas.upenn.edu/pece2024/

Sea walls get the headlines, but climate change is making clear that sewers and drainage systems are also in dire need of an upgrade. I wrote about California's flooding and urban drainage issues for @tnr.bsky.social:

@alanjacobs.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce the publication of our new book "Integrated Inferences" See here: integrated-inferences.github.io for links to: * The book plus open access version (thanks Cambridge!) * Accompanying R package on CRAN: CausalQueries 1/4

My team is hiring interns! Applications welcome from PhD students with expertise in causal inference and experimentation and an interest in developing and/or applying methods to industrial applications. jobs.netflix.com/jobs/306716846

Air pollution is likely costing residents of New Delhi an average of about 12 years of life compared with their expected lifespan if the region met World Health Organization air quality standards www.npr.org/sections/goa...

What does the clean energy boom mean for fossil communities? Why do individual compensation systems fail? What will it take to turn these communities and their leaders into energy transition supporters? An interview w/ @dustintingley.bsky.social & @agazmararian.bsky.social on @goodauth.bsky.social

I'm teaching about eco-authoritarianism today and am very happy that I wrote this piece nearly two years ago now. I still think polisci readers might appreciate it. [Journal article version hopefully coming in January if you hate long informal essays]

andré 3000 flute album... we are so back

The UN has a zero tolerance policy for SEA by UN peacekeepers- in a new article with Radwa Saad and Laura Huber, we find that there are two negative effects from the zero tolerance policy: 1) gender segregation 2) violence against female peacekeepers. See here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Weaponizing vulnerability to climate change static1.squarespace.com/static/5b542...

“Just five rich global north countries are responsible for the majority (51%) of planned new oil and gas extraction to 2050: the US, Canada, Australia, Norway and the UK. These countries have the responsibility to move first to phase out fossil fuel production.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just released an updated draft of a paper on crop burning and air pollution in South Asia with @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social . Comments welcome! osf.io/nyhz4

I wrote a brief reflection about why we did this paper, and why at this time. It's a tribute to people who endure US racism and move forward, making it possible for us to fight for a better world. socialsciences.nature.com/posts/histor...

Across two experiments, exposure to a brief informative video on Japanese American incarceration and subsequent reparations led to greater support among Asian Americans for the payment of reparations to Black Americans. New paper with Chyei Vinluan! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

📢New #PAG19 Critical Perspectives📢 Rachel Brulé in 'Climate Shocks and Gendered Political Transformation' looks to South Asia to argue that 'climate shocks' are gendered and open new opportunities women's representation in politics. PoliSky GenderSky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Really pleased to share that "Making Sense, Making Choices: How Civilians Choose Survival Strategies During Violence" is accepted at the APSR. @apsa.bsky.social You can see the accepted version here! I'll post more about the paper once it's up on FirstView. aidanmilliff.com/media/Millif...

Fall at Cornell.

Here's the abstract and my co-authors: Jessica Chen Weiss, Panle Jia Barwick, and Shanjun Li

New polisci paper alert: Commercial Casualties: Political Boycotts and International Disputes What would you do with 100 million Chinese vehicle registration records? Here's our answer. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

People in workplaces with a larger share of women are much more likely to say that they receive appreciation for their work. This is true for both women and men employees in workplaces with more women, and for people who manage these workplaces. 2/7

The best part about the LSE is getting the opportunity to work with brilliant colleagues like Nirvikar Jassal. This is a truly important paper on on women, policing and the justice system in India. The data is incredible as is the nuance in the findings.

Today in Good Authority, @profsaunders.bsky.social interviews Kelly Greenhill, author of Weapons of Mass Migration, about how states and non-state actors can use mass migration as a tool of war. Greenhill offers context for the current crisis. goodauthority.org/news/how-sho...

Survey experiments are ubiquitous in political science. But I have only found two articles assessing their external validity (Barabas and Jerit (2010) and Hainmueller et al (2015)). Am I missing some key literature here? [polisky]

Thanks to Komal Preet Kaur for writing this piece on our forthcoming APSR on forest conservation in India politicalsciencenow.com/the-link-bet...

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 🧵

Beebe lake in the rain.

Perfect day for EGEN at Cornell. So many great papers by emerging gender scholars. Gendersky Polisky @mirya.bsky.social

Accepted now at AJPS "Voted In, Standing Out: Public Response to Immigrants' Political Accession" with the incredible Stephanie Zonszein. Ungated draft at osf.io/xd4wk/ Polisky

Five million documents from the Dutch East India Company will be searchable starting on Wednesday, with an improved version of the database expected next year #archives nltimes.nl/2023/10/08/m...

On #GrandTamasha this week: the historian Joya Chatterji joins me to talk about her terrific, eclectic new history of 20th century South Asia—“Shadows at Noon.” The book explores politics and conflict but also food, cinema, and household dynamics grand-tamasha.simplecast.com/episodes/an-...

⏰HOUSING AND LOCAL CONTROL⏰ Less local ctrl should translate into more housing, as the power of NIMBY activists wane. But in a new paper, Laura Kettel and I show that a reform that diluted local control over land use in Denmark lead to less housing??? osf.io/5adyg/

What is the value added of local democracy? Fascinating paper on a natural experiment in India: Local democracy aligns spending more closely with citizen preferences, but these gains accrue more to advantaged groups. documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0...

Introducing ClimateSky—a feed for anyone working on or interested in the politics of climate change, broadly defined. Please share / like / join to help build this climate community! bsky.app/profile/did:...

We need to talk about participation, democracy, and climate, polisky. @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social writes up and extends on @leahstokes.bsky.social new PNAS paper.

Striking results according to a new World Bank study - there has been minimal progress on a number of gender equity measures in S. Asia over the last 50 yrs across socioeconomic groups. Opens up a host of questions on why. ideas.repec.org/p/wbk/wbrwps... Gendersky Southasiasky Polisky

Looks like Southasiasky is up and running. If you're a scholar working on South Asia who wants to share their work (similar to polisky), feel free to contact me and I'll add you. bsky.app/profile/did:...

An IPE/CPE feed!

@jeremywallace.bsky.social tells us in his 1st post at Good Authority about China's economic slowdown (not collapse!) and what it means for the world: goodauthority.org/news/what-ch...

See our article in ISQ here: academic.oup.com/isq/article-...

The Biden administration has extended TPS to more Venezuelans, offering them legal labor market access in the US. In research with David Leblang, we find that TPS helps migrants send remittances home, and if anything, reduces subsequent migration. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/n...

so when do the institutions and celebrities come on board?

PSA: the CDC has a program that pays for your COVID vaccine if your insurer won't. The guy at CVS told me that my insurer had not added the new vaccine to its formulary yet, so I'd need to pay $190. I told him about this program, showed him the website, and paid nothing. 🤗