Clam bucatini

No. nypost.com/2025/11/09/o...

As a reasonably frequent reviewer for journals, never have I sat on a manuscript because its implications are at odds with my political preferences.

Interesting. jacobin.com/2025/11/lunn... The Lunn/Lippmann episode also was critical to subsequent thinking on municipal political institutions (or so I’ve argued).

The closure of the local Outback Steakhouse is a major blow.

With PR in the discourse again, we’re likely to hear things about incompatibility with presidentialism and a tendency to produce fragmentation. These views tend to come from a certain corner of American Politics. I reflected on that dynamic last month: open.substack.com/pub/jacksant... 1/2

This paper treats the institutions as its dependent variable. Such work can correct a tendency to put faith in institutional “fixes” for deeper problems.

Just in time for Election Day, here’s our Cambridge Element on who pays for local elections. Free to download for the next two weeks!

I am really proud of this essay that came out in March: manhattan.institute/article/refo....

This is a fun read. open.substack.com/pub/centerfo...

Bananas. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Just posted on @3streamsblog.bsky.social from @jandrewsinclair.bsky.social on the Mamdani win in New York cc @cmwitko.bsky.social @billresh.bsky.social @dcinbox.bsky.social @sam-workman.bsky.social medium.com/3streams/zoh...

🎁 link: www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...

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.

Out now! I look at the size of municipal and local assemblies in EU/OECD countries and find that in addition to an effect of municipality population, more autonomous local councils are larger www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🗳️ Si Zohran Mamdani remporte la mairie de New York cette nuit, ça ne sera pas le premier succès de la mouvance socialiste dans la ville. Au début du XXème siècle, New York était en effet un bastion du socialisme américain 👇

Ten Storylines to Follow in Gotham’s Elections: www.city-journal.org/article/new-...

It’s rare to see the labor factor acknowledged in popular press. www.cincinnatimagazine.com/article/for-...

New Cambridge Element 'Money, Partisanship and Power in Local Politics' by Robert G. Boatright, Lane G Cuthbert, @eichen.bsky.social, Raymond J. La Raja & Meredith Rolfe is now free to read for 2 weeks - https://cup.org/48ZT4wZ #cambridgeelements #politics

“If we’re to remain a free society, those committed to the American experiment are going to need to start expressing our civic national ideals as effectively and compellingly as the ethnonationalists articulate theirs.”

NYC voters are turning out in large numbers during the early voting window, which is just over halfway complete Daily haul is mirroring trajectory during 2022 midterms You see larger volume on weekend (days 1-2), downtick on Monday (day 3), and uptick during extended voting hours (days 4-5) 1/2

Presidentialization

Student party ID, September 2024 vs. September 2025

Floating an idea — would the UK’s old major parties be in better shape today if they had been using American-style primaries to nominate candidates?

Dear #rstats, Please find attached the alpha version of my book "An Introduction to R for Policy Analysis": policyanalysislab.com/shared/r-for... Unfortunately, the draft has been released too late to be considered for a Nobel prize, but I look forward to being nominated in 2026. ...

Cambridge (MA) could adopt a charter amendment that changes vote-transfer rules from random (legacy system) to fractional. www.cambridgeday.com/2025/10/27/m...

After a huge post-election flip in economic perceptions, I thought Democrats and Republicans might be lying to pollsters to send a partisan message — but I was wrong! New in the Journal of Experimental Political Science (open access): doi.org/10.1017/XPS....

Looks like the same stuff that got in the way of PR from 2020-22 open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Please stop littering. Please teach children that it’s wrong to litter.

Interesting arxiv.org/abs/2507.07770

Interesting development

Now out in Party Politics 🎉 Our study (@jbpilet.bsky.social)suggests that when a mainstream right-wing party signals willingness to rule with the radical right, support for the radical right rises — while the mainstream gains nothing. 👉 A legitimisation effect. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I was inspired by the charts here (and in the link) about the social media followers of Portland city politicos. Check out how different their breakdown is: BlueSky is a real thing there. Not so much in Holland. Dutch politicians have far more followers on X than anywhere else.

Relevant to the mayor's race... www.gc.cuny.edu/sites/defaul...

Fascinating data here on local politicians’ use of social media open.substack.com/pub/rosecity...

This is a good post! I keep using 1234 or 12345, but only for visualization stuff like jittering. For real stuff, I go to random dot org (based on atmospheric noise) and create a random 8+ digit integer, generally one for each brms model I run in a project

Diana Mutz updating her classic work on deliberation across political differences in the US: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... TL;DR is that political discussion across political divides is down and participation is up, along with the fraught pervasiveness of politics in social life. Abstract:

Close reading as a scientific method jacksantucci.substack.com/p/close-read...

#OpenAccess from State Politics & Policy Quarterly - Participation and Competition in Top-Two Elections: Trade-Offs in Election Reform - https://cup.org/4hmd9j9 - @jandrewsinclair.bsky.social#OpenAccess Ian O’Grady, Bryn Miller & Catherine M. Murphy #FirstView

NEW ISSUE from @studiesapd.bsky.social - Studies in American Political Development - Volume 39 - Issue 2 - October 2025 - https://cup.org/3KL7Eyo #OpenAccess

Ugly ballot, but you only need to pick one candidate.

jacksantucci.substack.com/p/how-to-get... <- Thoughts on how to get better thesis statements