jandrewsinclair.bsky.social
Ast. Prof. of Gov't, Claremont McKenna College. Interested in political reform, public policy process, public administration, electoral institutions, and political behavior. Polling at the Rose Institute of State and Local Government.
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From the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...
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It’s great to have the posts from people who post frequently—especially with current events, etc. That’s really valuable! But it would also be great to be able to choose to look at some kind of weighted-post feed to get a different look at the content here. Anyway: some flowers! I’m going out. 2/2
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But he very clearly played high school baseball.
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Will, that’s actually not true. He played baseball, although the extent of his college career is often mischaracterized: calmatters.org/politics/202...
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If you are unfamiliar with the story: milkfoundation.org/about/harvey...
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Very cool!
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Cool organization! Good luck!
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In the primary, you can rank up to five candidates. If you're still trying to figure out who to rank and in which order, here's a primer on how it works, using the results from 2021, the first mayoral election that used RCV.
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It’s edging towards Loud MacLeod territory, there.
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A great book about this — a.co/d/a1VrPzB
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Absolutely. And the whole nonprofit sector that provides services the government would need to do otherwise. Lots of enormously talented people working to deliver public services.
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Over the years I’ve been lucky to teach at NYU Wagner and CMC many students interested in public service careers. These are great human beings, who care about doing good work. It’s awful to see them attacked, not for their faults, but for their virtues. 2/2
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It’s a gift link if anyone is interested—posted without comment: I merely thought people here might want to read it.
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Yes, I’d agree with that.
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I never really understood why people say such awful things about two and three-year-olds either. Those are all great ages!
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Time to go look at the flowers in the garden for a while.
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10% seems high!
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The thing about Threads is that I’d forgotten about it until you mentioned it. I tried to make that work! But I am much happier here.
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Academic freedom is non-negotiable. If we don’t have it, we aren’t scholars—we’re just propagandists for an approved point of view.
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I really like these, too — a red/yellow small sunflower.
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The book is Tullock, Toward a Mathematics of Politics (1967).
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Anyway, Greater Gotham is a great book—if you love NYC, so many questions answered in one place! (Why the subway is here? Who was this? Why are buildings like that? Etc.)
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Coincidentally, it seems this got written up in the NYT recently, too: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/b...