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tjryan02.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Moral complexity is better than moral clarity. https://timryan.web.unc.edu/
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We're all Harvard now… or something.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Very well done

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Sometimes you go and read the Wikipedia article about something you only sorta kinda learned about in middle school and you're like, "Wow. Harriet Tubman was tough as fucking nails."

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

It's bad, but things can always be worse. One very plausible way things could quite quickly be *much* worse is if central bank independence were obliterated. (What politics is Powell, a Trump appointee, playing exactly?)

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

with apologies to @xkcd.com

submitted 11 days ago • 23 comments

I would like to live in a country with representative body of elected officials that sets tax policy of major national importance.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

To punish my household's egregious trade deficit with Harris Teeter---and to revitalize my wife's and daughter's efforts in agriculture and animal husbandry---I am hereby instituting a 25% tax on all groceries entering the premises.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

It is *bananas* that the president can unilaterally set tax policy in this scale. It’s a quintessentially legislative power. And that Congress would not resist on purely process-based grounds speaks to an utter collapse in institutional pride.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

I hate when people just post an affirming “this.” But… this:

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I'm just realizing why this tariff rollout ceremony is happening at 4pm. US markets close at 4pm and they wanted to avoid a split screen with the markets tanking!

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

What hubris. We're talking about a Supreme Court that went on a totally unnecessary detour to invent a presidential immunity doctrine, whole cloth. Not to mention ignoring the plain language of the 14th A's insurrection clause. But sure, maybe next time.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Teaching opportunity in American Politics at Tufts next academic year! Please share. 2 courses, either semester. I'm leading the search and am happy to answer any questions: apply.interfolio.com/165149

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Day's off to a great start.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

📖 New open access publication 📖 Do citizens of different countries differ in political attitude constraint? Are Slovenes just as predictable as the Swiss? How stable is political attitude coherence across time? Find out here: doi.org/10.1007/s111... #polbehavior #Polisky #socialpsyc

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

The most successful person-to-person politically persuasive messages are those that bridge identity divides, use perspective taking, and incorporate personal narratives, finds @naunovmartin.bsky.social Ruedo-Cañòn @tjryan02.bsky.social in @thejop.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

I generally agree with MY that Dems had no cards to play. Point 16 is funny bc Sen Dems actually *can* do what House Dems did. You can vote yes on cloture and no on the bill. Or just not filibuster in the 1st place. I'm old enough to remember when a supermajority req was the exception not the rule.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Of all the haphazard federal government firings, the IRS ones vex me more than most. Each article I read reminds me of my experience a few years ago where I started getting angry letters from the IRS saying that I owed thousands of dollars in taxes. I didn't! My wife and I filed jointly…

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Great read---like most things Michael Lewis's pen touches. This one puts a human face on work of an obscure federal bureaucrat through the experiences of the 5-year old whose life she intervened to save.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Citizens can write persuasive messages to those on the other side, especially if they can bridge identity divides through perspective-taking & personal narratives. But unsuccessful senders perceive themselves to be as persuasive as successful ones www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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When Donald Trump threatens student protests, consider why: throughout modern history, student movements have repeatedly been the catalyst that toppled dictatorships. Authoritarian leaders fear campus activism precisely because it works. Below is a list of 36 student-led pro-democracy movements.🧵

submitted 41 days ago • 27 comments

Do you practice any mixed martial arts? Yes I can dress a toddler.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

I submitted three reviews today (all positive!) please clap.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Excited to share that my paper on citizen-to-citizen persuasion, co-authored with Carlos Rueda-Cañòn and @tjryan02.bsky.social, was just accepted at the Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social . Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 🧵

submitted 41 days ago • 14 comments

New @thejop.bsky.social paper from @naunovmartin.bsky.social , Carlos Rueda-Cañón, and me. Teaser: Political scientists know a lot about citizen *persuadability.* What about citizen *persuasiveness?* I'll leave the rest to Martin! Email us if you can't get past the paywall.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

UNC is hiring a Teaching Assistant Professor to contribute to teaching introductory classes in American politics. Please encourage people to apply. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/b5uzh...

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

From our new issue: "The Effect of Protesters’ Gender on Public Reactions to Protests and Protest Repression" by Martin Naunov. #ASPRNewIssue https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/effect-of-protesters-gender-on-public-reactions-to-protests-and-protest-rep…

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Excited to see this in print! It speaks to a number of social science literatures—protest effectiveness, repression, propaganda, stereotypes & morality, gender & politics, and disparate treatment between & within identity categories.

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

Group mind: Please give me your favorite example of a mediocre survey question! Seeking examples to discuss with my students in class tomorrow.

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

Group mind: Please give me your favorite example of a mediocre survey question! Seeking examples to discuss with my students in class tomorrow.

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment