Dear ANES community, the link below introduces our new Board of Advisors, led by Jamie Druckman. Jamie follows John Aldrich, who deftly chaired the Board for nearly 2 decades. This new group will guide us through the 2028 election cycle. Our deepest thanks to outgoing and incoming Board members!
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"Instead of treating all individuals and groups equally with respect to their status, power, or ends, a group theory of political communication requires normative analysis of the positioning of groups vis-a-vis one another and liberal democracy."
"Prediction Markets? The Accuracy and Efficiency of $2.4 Billion in the 2024 Presidential Election"
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“They won’t insure you,” Ms. Rojas said. “No one will buy from you. You’re kind of stuck where you are.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
New work examining how people’s use of multiple platforms is associated in being exposed to ideas they might not agree with.
We've just published the most comprehensive study of news creators to date covering 24 countries. Authored by Nic Newman @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social, it identifies the most mentioned in each country
📱Report buff.ly/bL6y8Hj
🧵6 findings in thread
It is finally finished and released! I was proud to be a member of the Task Force on 2024 Pre-Election Polling, and to play just a small role in producing this report.
Here is the report:
aapor.org/wp-content/u...
And here is the Executive Summary: aapor.org/wp-content/u...
Join us on October 30th at 2:30 pm for the Annual Richard G. and Carol J. Cline Symposium. Experts will discuss “Accountable Policing after the SAFE-T Act” in a roundtable on Zoom. RSVP here: buff.ly/lKLRF2L
US soybean farmers have to be one of the strongest Trump-voting constituencies in the country.
This shift is reshaping how we interact with information. Worth a read.
That Memorial Day I decided to spend a few hours of internet searching to honor his memory by seeing what I could find out about his last mission.
And I found out more than I expected. But that's for the next post... (4/4)
My family's journey started on Memorial Day 2013 when I remembered back when I was a boy visiting a family burial plot with a large stone with the image of a B-24 bomber engraved on it. I vaguely remembered that all our family ever knew was that he'd been shot down somewhere over New Guinea. (3/)
This month is Project Recover's "Mission Miles" fundraiser that aims to raise awareness of the more than 81,000 American families like mine who have a relative who is Missing In Action.
If you'd like to donate to this effort, please follow this link:
runsignup.com/heaven-can-w...
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Today is POW/MIA Remembrance Day in the US, a day set aside for remembering those who gave their lives for our country in wartime and are still Missing In Action.
As most of you know, I'm a volunteer for Project Recover, a nonprofit that finds and repatriates the remains of American MIAs. (1/)
His homecoming was made possible because of the work of Project Recover, a nonprofit devoted to finding and repatriating the remains of Americans missing in action from past wars. They found my relative's plane under more than 200 feet of water back in 2017.
www.projectrecover.org
This coming Friday 9/19 is national POW/MIA Recognition Day in the US. One of my relatives was MIA from WW2 until earlier this year: this past May I and other relatives buried the remains of 2Lt. Thomas V. Kelly, Jr. in Livermore CA 81 years after his death.
He is missing no longer. He is home.
Important issue: when journalists’ visa are reduced in length it creates uncertainty, chilling effects, and ultimately worse reporting from within the US.
That might be the purpose. But it is hugely problematic.
wan-ifra.org/2025/09/dont...
New Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent training to go from 18 weeks to 8 weeks, and dropping the degree requirement?
If the plan is to make the FBI a laughing stock, this is the way to do it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
Donald Kinder Receives the 2025 Ithiel de Sola Pool Award
The Ithiel de Sola Pool Award and Lectureship is presented triennially by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor a scholar whose research explores a broad range of fields pursued by Ithiel de Sola Pool; including…
Traffic for the world’s top-50 news websites swung sharply into the red in July, according to Press Gazette’s exclusive traffic ranking pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...
Next week I'll begin my fifteenth year as a political communication professor.
I wrote up some thoughts on what it's like trying to teach this subject while everything falls apart.
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
Illinois political science has two TT faculty searches open, one in US political institutions and the other in political behavior. Come join our faculty!
American Political Institutions: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Political Behavior: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Our latest release of SPOTLITE data offers for the first time a comprehensive picture of the demographic characteristics of civilians involved in police uses of lethal force on a national scale, including incidents without lethal outcomes.
Examine this chart from @niemanlab.org. It ranks the top 50 LOCAL news sites by number of monthly visits.
You'd expect LA Times to be high on the list. But The Post-Standard in Syracuse, NY? Let @joshuabenton.com explain. And see where your local newspaper falls.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/how-...
So the UN Global Risks Report is out...
& it lists Mis- and Disinformation as the biggest risk we face.
unglobalriskreport.org
Listen... I'm a mis- and Disinformation kinda guy, meaning I worry about this professionally.
But there is no way this issue should be all the way up there!
Plus...
Hooray! The 31st Issue of the #PolComm Report is out!
What a fantastic lineup @igoncalves.com was able to assemble for the topic of "Teaching PolComm" 🤩
Khadijah Costley White, @kcoe.bsky.social & Diana Zulli, Regina Cazzamatta, Matthew Powers, & @sangjung-kim.bsky.social (& her students).
Residents of every county in the United States can explore SPOTLITE incident records from their own communities to better understand local trends in police uses of lethal force.
clinecenter.illinois.edu/spotlite
