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borisheersink.bsky.social
Political scientist at Fordham. Author of National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics (Oxford University Press) and Republican Party Politics and the American South (Cambridge University Press). Cat liker. www.borisheersink.com
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Finally things are getting DONE here!

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APSA POP is on Bluesky! And, award (self-)nominations are due February 28! If you or someone you think the world of has published an article on parties or interest groups in the last 2 years that you think deserves recognition send me the PDF!

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In a new Power & Flour podcast episode, @borisheersink.bsky.social joins @jhagner.bsky.social and me for a discussion of the race for DNC chair, the most important contest you're not watching. We discuss why the next chair may be more consequential than most. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Got to join @smotus.bsky.social and John Hagner on their Power and Flour podcast to discuss the DNC and what it can and cannot do in the next few years; podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e....

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I'll be chairing the committee selecting APSA's Jack Walker Award for the best article published in the last two calendar years that makes an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties. If you want to (self-)nominate an article, please send it my way!

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The Journal of Historical Political Economy is looking for submissions for a special issue on The Historical Political Economy of Water in conjunction with a conference at Stanford later this year.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

I'll be chairing the committee selecting APSA's Jack Walker Award for the best article published in the last two calendar years that makes an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties. If you want to (self-)nominate an article, please send it my way!

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Sure why not.

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Allan Baird passed away; he was in charge of the Teamsters boycott of Coors beer in the early 1970s in the Bay Area and worked with Harvey Milk and Howard Wallace to get the SF gay community to join the boycott. Baird was a pioneer in merging labor and gay rights. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Never forget January 6, 2021, and the Capitol police officers who put their bodies and lives on the line to protect our democracy against the armed mob, directed to the Capitol by Donald Trump, who attempted by force to disrupt the democratic transfer of power. We all know what we saw.

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Big if true.

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‘‘Tis the season. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

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That classic SNL opening line!

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Thanks to @wagnertonight.msnbc.com for having me on to talk Trump transition

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Pick your fighter.

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Jeff Broxmeyer wrote a book about how ambitious young men out to make their fortune would often, in the late 19th century, turn to politics. There were lots of ways to make money in politics then! It was the crypto of its day www.pennpress.org/978081225236...

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Everything is as it should be.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

It remains insane that for decades parties and candidates spent insane amounts of money and resources on communicating directly to voters for and now that they can reach millions of people directly at basically no cost they use it exclusively to beg for money while treating them as idiots.

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The issue of the Biden pardon isn't whether it is bad or not for a president to pardon a family member - it obviously is. The much bigger problem is that the presidential power is essentially restricted only by the incumbent's moral compass. And that's a terrible way to design an institution.

submitted 97 days ago • 4 comments

Hell, Biden should just pardon everybody in the country. Opposite-Purge!

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submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Bluesky has made it. I can once again explain very online things to my not very online wife and have her stare at me, bewildered. We’re back baby!!!!

submitted 103 days ago • 253 comments

This is the rallying call that I've needed to hear since November 6th. From Roxane Gay in today's New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...

submitted 112 days ago • 755 comments

Updated version of the "Party Organisation Researchers" starter pack. Keep the suggestions coming! *organisations* = party members, branches, structures, intra-party democracy, candidate selection, finance, statutes, rules etc. go.bsky.app/76Zdx3c

submitted 112 days ago • 4 comments

I intend to use this new, less-sullied place to: 1) Make gently humourous observations about everyday life; 2) Post charming pictures; 3) Crush my enemies utterly beneath my heel.

submitted 112 days ago • 54 comments