I'm excited to share that we're running a junior faculty search in American politics. Proud to see GWU continue to invest in political science. Link: www.gwu.jobs/postings/122...

On Friday at #APSA, I'll be presenting new research on how political geography shapes the siting of collective goods. We use the consolidation of municipalities in Denmark to show how the distribution of entire electorate affects where wind energy is politically viable.

In Vancouver for the APSA Annual Meeting. First time visiting the city and I rented a bike for a 2-hour spin. Blown away. Bike infrastructure on par with Denmark plus miles of trails in the middle of UBC’s campus (4 miles from downtown).

So proud of my wife, Rui Gao! Her dissertation research has led to a breakthrough in understanding ecDNA-amplified cancers, opening paths for better treatments in the future. And a co-first author publication in Nature is a nice outcome as well :) www.linkedin.com/posts/ruigao...

What's the best way to debrief study participants? At @pnasnexus.org, Katie Clayton, @yamilrvelez.bsky.social, @thomasjwood.bsky.social and I introduce a new debriefing method that leaves participants much better off than standard debriefs. Especially relevant for misinfo research. bit.ly/41i19sU

I'm on two 📘 award committees for APSA, deadlines March 1, 2025 Robert Lane Award (with Nichole Bauer and Markus Prior) connect.apsanet.org/s28/nominati... Converse Award (with @wzcmarsh.bsky.social, @jfdaoust.bsky.social, @hmridge.bsky.social) connect.apsanet.org/s32/awards/ pls nominate & share

Very cool research opportunity here!

We're hiring in American Politics at the junior level. Position will be affiliated with GW’s Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics. Applications due January 2nd. I'm on sabbatical, but I am happy to answer questions about the dept., broadly. DM me. www.gwu.jobs/postings/116...

“Harris’s [supply-increasing] housing plan responded to an urgent crisis with reforms whose benefits would be felt slowly if at all.” It is worse than that: Renters tend to oppose supply increases, as @hankinson.bsky.social has shown. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/... LIST 01%2F06%2F2020

Excited to see @maxwellpalmer.bsky.social and my research in this @bostonglobe.com op-ed this morning. The use of public money to actively block much-needed affordable housing is appalling, and shows the strength of opposition to new housing in Greater Boston. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/25/o...

I’m adding a day on path dependence to my undergrad Intro to Policy Analysis class. Would love recommendations for favorite podcasts/news articles/etc that illustrate the concept!

Facing a cost of living crisis, mayor are (finally) promising to build more housing. Can they deliver? I discuss both the political obstacles, but also opportunities for success with @apmresearch.bsky.social at American Public Media. www.apmresearchlab.org/10x/mayors-a...

Astead Herndon’s “The Run-Up” is the most informative politics podcast. He interrogates an interviewee’s beliefs while warmly inviting them to define the framework. From party loyalists to undecideds, he extracts depth where others flatten/abstract away. I could build my Intro Amer. syllabus via it

When do interest groups — like organized labor — use the housing entitlement process to secure benefits? Now published in JPIPE, A. Magazinnik, Anna Weissman, and I find a relationship with big implications for the housing supply & attempts to reform local permitting. 1/10

🚨 How should we design surveys to capture opinion in fast-changing contexts like elections or within hard-to-reach communities? 🚨 My paper, conditionally accepted at Political Analysis, develops a method that leverages LLMs and adaptive algorithms to construct surveys that evolve with user input.

A new interesting article by @hankinson.bsky.social and @jdbk.bsky.social is now available on our FirstView page. It is entitled “How self-interest and symbolic politics shape the effectiveness of compensation for nearby housing development”. Enjoy it here: t.ly/-0IQO

Can developers compensate nearby residents to win support for their housing projects? In a new @jpublicpolicy.bsky.social article, @jdbk.bsky.social and I unpack how compensation works, when it fails, and what that teaches us about symbolic attitudes and housing policy. 1/11

Research suggests these changes - moving from at-large to ward-based elections and increasing the # of members - will lead to less housing being built, and thus greater challenges for tenants boltsmag.org/montana-hous... @hankinson.bsky.social

Iirc this is how John Roberts would prepare for oral argument before he was a judge

Re-upping my job market advice: When practicing your talk, randomize where you begin. If you always start on Slide 1, your front-end will be super-polished as you edit/restart. But you will rarely get to the end with the same focus. Start fresh on Slide 20, you’ll be invincible.

Thank you UC Possibility Lab for organizing a forum for my work (w/ A. Magazinnik) on housing, local gov’t, & state preemption. To the practitioners who shared insights from their own experience in CA housing policy: those were nuggets of gold! Only fitting to find them in the Bay Area

Thank you to the UC-Berkeley Research Workshop in American Politics for inviting me to share my work (w/ Asya Magazinnik) on housing, local gov’t, and state preemption in CA. It was truly the most generative feedback I’ve received via a workshop. The vibes are good at RWAP!

Jerome Powell YIMBYism—"The real issue with housing is that we have had and are on track to continue to have not enough housing...it's hard to zone lots in places where people want to live...the supply question will have to be dealt with by the market and by government"

Is “bitter exasperation” a new treatment arm? Also, they can save a few bucks by verifying that I am not Gordon, the 80+ y.o. Pennsylvania Republican (info gleaned from two election cycles worth of campaign texts)

Coming minutes after the debate does complicate the event study design we were all planning…

Dissertation prospectus opener:

The housing supply and shortage was literally the first policy mentioned. As for those who've been working in this space for the past decade... #Debate2024

This year, I am on sabbatical and excited to be a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (@Princeton SPIA). If you are passing through campus or NYC and want to connect and chat research, don’t hesitate to out via email/DM. That’s what this time is for!

If your goal is to maximize knowledge, scooping is weird. Scooper or scoopee, the project would’ve been completed without you, making it an inefficient use of your time. Pick the out-there projects that only you would think up! *Not advice for maximizing career happiness, especially pre-tenure

Banger way to close out APSA. 10am in Marriott 304: Power and Precarity in the Political Economy of U.S. Housing Policy. #APSA2024

Very proud to receive the Lawrence Longley Award for Best Article from the APSA Representation and Electoral Systems Section #APSA2024 Attending the section underscored how much Amer. pol. researchers can learn from comparative pol. in this space. Ungated: www.mhankinson.com/documents/su...

When do interest groups — like organized labor — use the housing entitlement process to secure benefits? Now published in JPIPE, A. Magazinnik, Anna Weissman, and I find a relationship with big implications for the housing supply & attempts to reform local permitting. 1/10

Our research-informed advice on how local leaders can respond to the opioid crisis, based on our articles in the APSR and Political Behavior (w/ @jdbk.bsky.social). theconversation.com/how-opioid-t...

Yes. And a corollary: The longer you teach a class the more effort you have to put in editing things down to keep yous lectures lean and with a clear focus.

Iron Law of Intro-level Lectures: The best lectures are on topics you know the least. Easier to pick one or two takeaways and make those resonate. While my intro federalism lecture is a jalopy jammed with stuff I find fascinating, my intro bureaucracy lecture is a lean, clean learning machine.

What do we know--and what don't we know--about corrections of misinfo? Now at Current Opinion in Psychology, @thomasjwood.bsky.social and I offer answers. TLDR: Corrections improve accuracy across groups (see figure); tiny fx on attitudes; open questions about durability + exposure. bit.ly/3Qt0IVD

This postcard is very nice! I guess I’m in the treatment group. But I won’t post the back; need to maintain a shred of SUTVA.

Now at @bjpols.bsky.social, lots of evidence (8 panel experiments!) on misinfo and fact-checks during the 2020 election. TLDR: Fact-checks mostly worked. With @aecoppock.bsky.social, @emilythorson.bsky.social, @thomasjwood.bsky.social and Kim Gross.

⏰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/

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 🧵

Teaching interest groups in state & local politics today. Covering labor unions, "Right to Work" laws, and Janus v. AFSCME. Every semester, I am tempted to play this clip. Maybe post-tenure: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3mw...

Am teaching "participation beyond voting" today, focusing on how public meetings shape elected officials' behavior. Who knew my opening slide, with an image from the 2013, would be so prescient?

Very excited to watch @goodauth.bsky.social grow. A real buzz in the room. Congratulations!

What’s the best writing on stronger/more professionalized legislatures for urban planning? Campanella (2011) rants about the death of planning post-Jacobs, but his argument mirrors calls for representative democracy (not a planner-philosopher king). placesjournal.org/article/jane...

Chapter 2 from Altshuler and Luberoff is still _the_ standard in digesting 70+ years of local politics theory. If you’re teaching local pol. or a grad student trying to get oriented in the lit, start here. You could build an entire seminar from the footnote citations alone.

I’ll be there!

Best part of APSA is LPEC (Local Political Economy Conference)! Happy to see it grow over the years to more than 60 people today...I swear they are just off camera here. Thanks to Melissa Rogers for the unexpected photo.

Based on the sign, I assume these walls were originally white. (Gelman Library, GWU)