🚨 New paper with Jie Ma and @keithschnak.bsky.social: Democratic Accountability with Citizen Coproduction

As always: read it, cite it, love it!

Link: osf.io/preprints/os...

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

e.g., bsky.app/profile/ianr...

Might know some people with papers on dark money 👀

What's Happened to the Gender Gap in Political Activity? Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - What's Happened to the Gender Gap in Political Activity?

Excited for this new Element in Gender in Politics. Download it for free now 🥳

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Dark Money and Politician Learning | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

Dark Money and Politician Learning (w/ @keithschnak.bsky.social) now online at @thejop.bsky.social:

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

a man in a plaid shirt is standing in front of a wooden door and says no big deal ALT: a man in a plaid shirt is standing in front of a wooden door and says no big deal

All facets of me are a big deal

I'm multifaceted

Executive orders under U.S. presidents – and Trump 2.0. Executive orders by U.S. presidents, from Franklin Roosevelt to Joe Biden. What EOs will Trump issue in his first week?

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...

Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections (DIME): Public version 4.0 Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections (DIME): Public version 4.0

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 🚨

lol i wish

Must be weak oversight

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

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Thanks!

Four junior faculty members receive this year’s Poorvu Innovation The award recognizes excellence in teaching in undergraduate programs and enables recipients to dedicate their summer to research.

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...

Link: osf.io/preprints/so...

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.

I'm much closer to law in this sense 🤣

Strong stance against Segal and Spaeth 😜

Bet I know the journal (where I've been waiting for 2 months with "Required Reviews Completed")

🤣 I genuinely do think it'd be good to know! Some papers act like it's beliefs, some preferences, some 🤷‍♂️

I'll throw in "What is an attitude?"

Fey and Ramsay is great on this! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

(Ungated: www.rochester.edu/college/facu...)

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