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intl. development: civic participation, housing, digital technology, and urban politics. assistant prof at CGU www.tanukumar.com
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My book, Building Social Mobility is available for preorder! shorturl.at/jlgQv

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change

submitted 60 days ago • 47 comments

"We are attempting to survive our time, so we may live into yours."

submitted 230 days ago • 10 comments

ICYMI Ryan Atwood from the OC wrote a bestselling book on crypto www.amazon.com/Easy-Money-C...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

You know it’s bad when even Trump is pity posting through it 💀

submitted 72 days ago • 1948 comments

How can citizens drive accountability in resource-strained bureaucracies? 🌍 GLD Policy Brief No.26 explores how community efforts, empathy, and mobilization improve service delivery in rural India. Read the brief to learn more! bit.ly/4feVFm1 By Gabi Kruks-Wisner, @tanukumar.com, Jessica Mayberry.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are muppets. Interstellar Michael Kaine

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Policy brief on my work with Gabi Kruks-Wisner and Video Volunteers on how citizens can demand responsiveness from bureaucrats who are overburdened and not formally accountable to them: gld.gu.se/en/publicati...

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

🎉 Thrilled that my new book, *Creating Partisans: The Organizational Roots of New Parties in Latin America*, is finally out! 🎉 @cambridgeup.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/us/universit... A brief summary: 1/n

submitted 92 days ago • 11 comments

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Just watched ucla wbb CRUSH South Carolina. Insane!!

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You are a PhD/postdoc & have a paper on how citizens view or understand representation, or what they expect from representatives? If yes, please send us your paper proposal for a fully-funded place in a workshop on "Citizens' Views on Representation" 👇. t.co/aJ0SOwyCge

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Love how in lotr people are like “be back with the other fighters in two days” and correctly estimate so people are always in time for the war

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

can someone explain to me how relying on starter packs to discover people to follow is different from pre-twitter forms of information dissemination where it was hard for people not central in networks to be seen?

submitted 109 days ago • 2 comments

Great paper showing how flood risk information affects housing choices. Connects well with our finding (w/ Balboni, Waseem: jmboehm.github.io/Pakistan_Flo...) that agents are imperfectly informed about flood risks. Clear evidence that better information can help adaptation to climate risks.

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

Seems important: a policy to remove undocumented migrants reduced not just their employment, but also those of citizens.

submitted 111 days ago • 5 comments

Some casual shocking stats on wealth inequality in the US. Today, bottom 50% holds 2.5 percent of wealth compared to top .1% holding 13.5, top 1% holding almost 30%. www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/...

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

which policies build enduring social mobility? My take: those that 1) give beneficiaries a sense of agency and control and 2) not only improve econ. outcomes, but social status as well. Most welfare policies do not do 1, and virtually none do 2. Exception: housing (1/2)

submitted 112 days ago • 1 comment

perennial plea to APSA/MPSA/SPSA to consider adding someone with expertise outside the US and Europe to the editorial boards of the APSR/AJPS/JOP, our discipline's top general interest journals.

submitted 141 days ago • 0 comments

Excited to host the Southern California Political Institutions and Political Economy Conference at @CGUnews tomorrow, March 22! If you are in the area, feel free to drop by!

submitted 345 days ago • 0 comments

Reupping a post that got lost in the holidays: The South Asian politics section of APSA now has prizes for best book and best article on South Asia. Please nominate work you admire (even your own).

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