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ianrturner.bsky.social
Political Scientist | Political Institutions | Political Economy | Formal Theory | Pittsburgh Partisan
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Some thoughts on early executive action, and Trump's likely flood thereof, in @goodauth.bsky.social. Among other things: issuing a "record setting" number of Day 1 executive orders will not be very hard. goodauthority.org/news/trump-e...

I’m excited to share DIME v4.0 is live! This release covers through the 2024 cycle and contains records for 850M+ itemized political contributions and ideological scores for millions of candidates, PACs, and donors. stanford.io/3DJDCYm

Cool paper alert 🚨

Very happy this is out! I'm very proud of this paper. As always: read it, cite it, love it!

The institutional foundations of the power to persuade by Carlo Prato and Ian R. Turner is now available in Early View. @carloprato.bsky.social ajps.org/2024/12/10/t...

Where Ian Turner and I argue that weakening congressional oversight may actually undermine presidential attempts to influence bureaucrats

Congratulations, @ianrturner.bsky.social for receiving one of this year's Poorvu Innovation Awards in recognition of his excellence in teaching. news.yale.edu/2024/02/12/f...

New paper with Ben Noble: "Presidential Leadership and Legislative Polarization." We study incentives for presidents to "go public" to influence legislative policymaking across various political environments. As always, read it, cite it, love it! osf.io/preprints/soca…

APSA Formal Theory Section Awards Get your nominations (self-nominations encouraged) by MARCH 1. Send nominations straight to the committee.

New paper with Hannah Simpson: "Guilt and Pleading Guilty": osf.io/h9wnd To shamelessly tie it to current events, consider the following: most criminal cases are settled by plea bargaining, and the evidence against Sam Bankman-Fried was overwhelming. So why did he go to trial?

Join me for my hackathon where I teach you how to reconvert Mathematica output to positive numbers when using FullSimplify

I'm hiring a predoctoral fellow! The fellow will work with me on my solo projects and with me @hlw.bsky.social and Ariel White on collaborative projects. Please share with colleagues, friends, and potentially interested students and reach out with questions! tobin.yale.edu/opportunitie...

Planning your Spring syllabi? Doing research on special interest politics? Need some sick theory in your life? @keithschnak.bsky.social and I got you: osf.io/preprints/so... As always: read it, *cite it*, love it

Finally, hockey is back 🏒