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Postdoc at Columbia Business School studying partisan sorting at work. https://www.maxkagan.com/
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Polity has not coded any countries other than the US since 2018, but this places the US below the 2018 scores of Russia, Venezuela, Haiti, Iraq, Zimbabwe, the Central African Republic... Perhaps the inference we should make here is about the reliability of Polity.

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Attitudes toward backsliding have shifted. In Aug '24, when we asked Americans if they felt the country was headed toward the end of democracy, Rs were much more likely to be worried. With new results in the first weeks of the Trump presidency, Ds are now the resigned party and Rs are optimistic.

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Two years ago Stephen Chaudoin, @maxkagan.bsky.social, and I published a paper on politically-targeted trade retaliation (PTTR) against swing states and Red states. Since it's is back in the news, if you're interested in the domestic effects of PTTR check out doi.org/10.1007/s115...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

nobody tell eric adams about this

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Super interesting chart from @pewresearch.org Among college-educated, basically no relationship between income and party ID Among non-college, higher income appears very correlated with Republican ID

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Amazing article... this person would like you to know that her Cybertruck is *not* a political statement, but actually just garden-variety tax avoidance www.businessinsider.com/cybertruck-d...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

(copyright @nathankalmoe.bsky.social all rights reserved)

submitted 79 days ago • 5 comments

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Why do people still think these open letters are a good idea? There is no evidence that they help, and some evidence that they decrease trust in the professions of the people who sign them.

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

A baseball stadium in New York's deep blue Flushing neighborhood may seem like a strange place to meet Trump supporters. But over the jolly refrain of "Meet the Mets," you can hear whispers that Biden is the reason that an outfielder costs $765 million.

submitted 80 days ago • 22 comments

Americans will use anything except the metric system

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

political scientists watching economists deal with a potential strike at conference hotels during their flagship annual conference

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Just a reminder that @gmcd.bsky.social and @kylefbutts.bsky.social have made an incredible public good describing how to use data.table and fixest to encourage moving from Stata to R! stata2r.github.io

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The Google Scholar alert donation email is pretty hilariously niche... was this tailored? Or did some Democratic fundraiser assume that a non-negligible portion of their donor base are academics

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Meanwhile in the US, that won’t even get you a single soap dispenser

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Our Polarization Lab at Duke hopes to hire another post-doc this year-- apply below and/or please share with people who might be interested: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29305

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

New depolarization intervention just dropped, waiting for the RCT www.npr.org/2024/11/22/n...

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PRL's annual conference is in Salt Lake City, May 1-2, 2025 🎉Apply by 12/31 to present/attend! We are looking for work on democratic attitudes, broadly defined, and preference complete/near complete studies for talks. Details and application: polarizationresearchlab.org/annual-meeti...

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

I'm re-reading the introduction to @eitanhersh.bsky.social 's Politics is for Power this morning. As good reminder as any in a sea of post-election takes:

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

What’s common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? In American politics, voters who say they are “independent“ are often just less-engaged partisans and consistently loyal to the same party when they vote. The word does not mean persuadable or swing voter.

submitted 103 days ago • 2 comments