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What do tax cuts for the rich do? They increase inequality. They have no effect on economic growth or unemployment. "Our results provide strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy."

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Everyone wonders where Rogan from the left is and he grew up and turned into Jimmy Kimmel.

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The Founders created impeachment and removal precisely for this moment. They feared the president could become a lawless tyrant corrupted by foreign powers.

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Textbook authoritarianism. Wildly illegal. Presidentialism run amok & captured by fascists. Fixing this is not a job for the courts. It's a job for Congress. And we are experiencing the total failure of Article I of the Constitution.

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🚨New WP🚨 Can AI do "deep canvassing"—the time-intensive, empathic persuasive dialogues that durably reduce prejudice when done by humans? Spoiler: Yes! We find durable reduction in prejudice toward undocumented immigrants LLMs make deep canvassing possible at massive scale osf.io/preprints/os...

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Social media allows us to remix the news using samples from social networks (me doing this right now). Random stuff becomes fodder for our mixtapes. It's a fundamental reshaping of communication. It's how you end up calling Cookie Monster a fascist, and it dehumanizes people bc they are just clips.

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Congratulations to the Political Science Scholars Elected to the 2025 Class of the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship Program APSA congratulates this year’s political science scholars elected to the 2025 Class of the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship program! The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program provides…

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The House bill will affect American voters in many ways. How are they likely to respond politically? My book "Stable Condition" on the ACA offers some suggestions... tl;dr the policies most likely to change voters' minds are those that take things away. 1/

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Many of us who read Project 2025 have been saying from the start that The Regime has a unifying goal of destroying US scientific infrastructure and causing the collapse of Universities. We were called “hysterical”. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Political science thinks term limits are bad but most existing ones we study (in state legislatures) are super short (around 8-10 years in each chamber). Curious if much longer term limits might work in Congress without sacrificing experience. Three decades is both a long time and enough time.

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Ever wonder about production timelines after your manuscript is accepted at PSJ? Here’s a snapshot of Wiley’s PSJ article production turnaround times for PSJ so far this year. We're happy to share! #PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal

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BREAKING: House GOP reconciliation bill "One BIg Beautiful Bill" passes 216-214.

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Disastrous news for graduate education in the US.

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Went to high school with Katie. This is really cool.

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Hey it's another one of those inevitable things turning out to not be.

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Reverse Harrison Bergeron

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America’s national legislature has the oldest median age compared to dozens of wealthy democracies. And this graph just includes the House—the median senator is nearly a decade older than that. Full paper by @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social & @adambonica.bsky.social here: www.google.com/url?q=https%...

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we are so cooked im a debt hawk now

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i had to feed the take machine and write about the Biden 2024 discourse - we're missing a good opportunity to actually think about the presidency, president-centered parties, and media frames that center individuals rather than institutions goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/were-learn...

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The @catalist.bsky.social What Happened report speaks for itself. Here, we highlight a key result: failing to win more young men - not just white men - especially those who aren't super invested in politics, was a major factor in Democratic losses in 2024 open.substack.com/pub/youngmen...

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🚨Reports around the country today that some people who showed up for their immigration court hearings were told that ICE prosecutors had dismissed their cases — and then were arrested moments later by ICE officers and taken to detention centers for unknown reasons. Happening in multiple cities.

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Would read a paper on whether there are asymmetric retirement patterns. Wonder if this is emblematic of the GOP cycling through to a new coalition in the last decade and the Dems not (yet?) giving way to their left flank.

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ERC offers 'start-up' funding to help new grantees move to Europe to establish their laboratories or research teams. This funding is now being doubled from up to €1 million to up to €2 million. This will apply already in the ERC Advanced Grant competition, which is due to open on 22 May 2025.

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In Dec. '24 & Jan. '25, we polled GOP & Democratic political activists with @today.yougov.com . Cutting taxes on people making over $400K was among the least popular policies we polled. Medicaid work requirements won a majority of activists; expanding Medicare was more popular.

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New lab preprint, from @abbycassario.bsky.social's furiously typing fingers to your eyes

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New Marquette Law School national poll. law.marquette.edu/poll/wp-cont...

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Why are Dems are spending money on these damn YouTubers instead of more on traditional news outlets to reach persuadable voters? One reason might be because we want persuadable voters to hear what we have to say. youngmenresearchinitiative.substack.com/p/survey-res...

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🇪🇺🇦🇫 Published Today in CPS 🇪🇺🇦🇫 “Stand by those who share our values” – how refugees fleeing the Taliban improved European attitudes toward immigration Article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/os... Thread: 1/8

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Trump/Musk is the perfect platform for making the public case that government outsourcing is bad... whispers and a robust, competent public sector is good prospect.org/environment/...

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If you think 2024 was a weird inflation singularity or if you think voters are furious at Trump, here’s more evidence for both.

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If we stop calling these “grants” and start calling them “contracts,” it’s clearer to people why this is such an abuse of power. This wasn’t a bunch of gifts. This was a bunch of binding contracts between researchers and the US govt for specific agreed upon projects.

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everyone hates it but the model isn't rogan, it's meidastouch, and the audience to capture isn't bluesky, it's facebook

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You may remember my “article hunt” assignment from a thread back in 2018, or from one earlier this year. I wrote about it for Political Science Educator: educate.apsanet.org/developing-r.... Big thanks to @colinmbrown.bsky.social and Matt Evans for curating this collection! #TeachLearnSky

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Sending my STATA replication code to journals.

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The relationship between the percentage of a county's population with a BA and Democratic vote share was basically the same in 2024 as it was in 2020 (B=.89 vs .91). Interestingly, % of the population with a grad degree predicts better predicts Dem vote share relative to BA%. 1/2

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If you like the work Catalist do, and know someone wanting an internship, they have an Analytics Intern position right now. Remote, temporary part time job, $17.50-$20 per hour. jobs.lever.co/catalist/792...

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Great thread on today's news about the Trump administration trying to restrict most Americans' access to life-saving COVID shots.

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Political scientists! APSA @epovb.bsky.social‬ is now on bsky. Drop us a follow! And help us circulate this call for proposals to junior scholars?

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Certainly seems like Dems were more effective at turning out supporters than Republicans were in 2024, despite a general headwind

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typeset version of "Meet the Press: Gendered Conversational Norms in Televised Political Discussion" is up in JOP ahead of print www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Going to see a lot of comparisons to 2012 with catalist data out. It’s fine. It’s the last pre-Trump election. Caveat that 2012 is high watermark for Dem Latino support this century and near the high for Black Dem support. Dem erosion is not a mystery. Erosion to Trump in particular is a mystery.