It's MPSA week! We are hosting 2 great events that we hope you attend: a mixer for scholars interested institutional reform (cospon. by Unite America; plz register!) and a reverse roundtable with accomplished legislators and practitioners from around the country. Hope to welcome you at one or both!
Attending the MPSA next weekend?
Join PAIR for a series of engaging events throughout the weekend, including a mixer in partnership with the Unite America Institute, and a roundtable discussion focused on legislative oversight and evidence-based policymaking.
Details for both events below!
Friendly reminder to our Greater Lafayette friends: Dr. Tam will join us today at 6:00 p.m. for a timely lecture on redistricting.
Hope to see you there!
If you are in the Greater Lafayette / Central Indiana area, we hope you will consider joining us! Dr. Tam has a wealth of expertise from which she will draw on this important topice!
Hope to see you tomorrow for great pastries and panel discussion! Just to be clear, we are on the program for 8:00 and 9:30; but, given some cancellations, we are combining the sessions.
See you at 9 for breakfast and 9:30 for engaging discussion!
Are you at #SPSA2026? Join PAIR for a discussion on institutional reforms in an era of strong executives! We will discuss a variety of reform proposals, from civil service to the judiciary. Breakfast available at 9 on Sat.; panel to begin at 9:30. Hope to see you there!
hey if you study Congress and you could use estimates of status quo AND proposal location for over a thousand bills including many which never made it to the floor, we've got 'em!
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This paper, now out at QJPS, was a labor of love, and Geoff, @alexanderfurnas.com and I are pleased to share it--and the data! Appreciate the opportunity to write up for @lseusablog.bsky.social, and very thankful for the Center for Effective Lawmaking in helping to improve the project!
Despite the weather and Thanksgiving travels, Dr. Howell packed the house! Many thanks to him for an engaging talk, to our community for excellent turnout, and to @theihs.org for generous support.
Stay tuned for the next Politics In PAIR-spective lecture in Winter 2026...
Very, very important piece.
PAIR is so excited to welcome Rylee Crum as our first-ever PAIR Graduate Fellow! Rylee comes to us after completing a degree in Economics at Purdue.
Purdue friends, if you see Rylee around, please join us in welcoming her!
PAIR is very pleased welcome to Purdue our very first Postdoctoral Fellow, Ayoung Chun!
Dr. Chun (Ph.D., 2025, UCLA) will continue her work on money in politics and policymaking in Congress while with PAIR.
Welcome to Purdue, Ayoung!
Feel free to reach out with any questions -- the lecture is free and open to the public.
This is the first year of support from the Ann & Bill Moreau Endowment Honoring Sen. Birch Bayh. Purdue’s own Birch Bayh is the only American besides James Madison to author more than one successful constitutional amendment, so we are especially thankful to honor his amazing constitutional legacy.
Friends in Indiana, mark your calendars for PAIR's 3rd Annual Constitution Day Lecture! This year, we are excited to host Pulitzer-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse (Yale). Ms. Greenhouse will speak on the Court's response to the Trump Admin's view of executive power.
As @mattyglesias.bsky.social notes today, certain interest groups certainly built the polarization machine deliberately, but @jmcrosson.bsky.social wrote this great piece for us about how many just got sucked into it, even as single-issue orgs. 1/2 hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/when-lobby...
This is an interesting paper. IG-party interactions are complex and by no means a one-way street: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Thanks to generous support from the Jack Miller Center, PAIR is pleased to announce that we will host a reading group on executive power this year, led by our faculty affiliate, Sebastian Graham! Purdue faculty, please encourage your best students to apply (there are completion incentives)!
I was perplexed as to why someone would name a paper the same as Sean's book haha
Perfect, thanks man!!
That was the name of the paper?
I recall being on a panel at APSA/MPSA when someone presented a paper on Senate electoral class. Does anyone (perhaps the author!) know who that was?
Some people love both Yellowstone *and* NYC, Zander :)
Super glad to see this in print! It was a labor of love for @alexanderfurnas.com, @geofflorenz.bsky.social, and I -- we really love these data and think they have plenty of potential outside of this paper. Thanks to the Center for Effective Lawmaking for feedback! thelawmakers.org/legislative-...
This isn't evaluative in the "improvement" sense, but the coolest teaching "interview" I ever did involved sending 3 syllabi and sitting in a room for ~1 hour--answering questions about course design, readings, assignments, etc. I liked it so much that we replicated it at Purdue for a teaching line.
So many emergency orders. So little time. 🇺🇸
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Hugely important and troubling findings here -- from some of the best humans in our discipline!!
If you are interested in co-sponsoring one of these with PAIR next year, please reach out! We are collecting ideas for next MPSA application cycle.
ICYM our reverse roundtables last year, the premise is to bring practitioners & practitioner-adjacent scholars to MPSA for a moderated discussion about how to make our institutions work better. The hope is to generate interesting research Qs that can also have practical impact.