This work is SO important! The authors find that, as immigration enforcement ramped up in January 2025, foreign-born students became 37% more likely to miss school. This work helps us begin to understand the very real effects of ICE's presence on our students and our school systems.

Using a web crawler search for special education information on a school district's homepage, we find that while most districts do provide info, the "administrative ease" of finding it varies by local capacity, bureaucratic structure, & community demand.

To evaluate this, we build on administrative burden literature by proposing a lens of "administrative ease," or "how government institutions can be intentionally designed to facilitate citizens' ability to access services, exercise rights, and engage with the state."

We investigated an essential, yet overlooked, aspect of special education: how easy it actually is for families to find information about their children's rights on local school district websites.

The Politics of Administrative Ease: Public Access to Local Special Education Information What political and administrative resources contribute to the realization of rights in the United States? We examine this puzzle in the context of rights to education for students with disabilities by measuring the administrative ease of accessing local special education information: the extent to which governments actively reduce learning costs and make information accessible.

I'm excited to share our latest EdWorking paper, "The Politics of Administrative Ease: Public Access to Local Special Education Information" (w/ @lindseykaler.bsky.social
and co-authors).
edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1447
#SpecialEducation #EdResearch
@annenberginstitute.bsky.social

Using a web crawler to mirror the human experience of searching for special education information on a school district's homepage, we find that while most districts do provide info, the "administrative ease" of finding it varies by local capacity, bureaucratic structure, and community demand.

To evaluate this, we build on administrative burden literature by proposing a lens of "administrative ease," or "how government institutions can be intentionally designed to facilitate citizens' ability to access services, exercise rights, and engage with the state."

We investigated an essential, yet overlooked, aspect of special education: how easy it actually is for families to find information about their children's rights on local school district websites.

Dr. Arnzen's Research & Recent Publication on the Administrative Burdens of Voting An introduction to some of my research and my new article out in Policy Studies Journal on how the "costs" of voting matter differently for individuals of different levels of education

The first of my dissertation papers is officially out in @psjeditor.bsky.social! I started this paper in 2023, so I am happy it’s finally out! 🎉

I wrote about it in this post for the North Central College Political Science Bulletin!

Congratulations to @camarnzen.bsky.social‬ on his appointment as Assistant Professor of Political Science at North Central College! His research examines how education policy & institutions shape democratic participation, governance, & public life. We’re excited to see this work continue.

Thanks! And that is exciting news—for both hanging out and collaborating! 🙂

Couldn’t have done it without your support! Thanks, David! 😊

I feel happy and lucky to come out on the other side of this academic journey.

Looking forward to connecting with colleagues and friends in the Chicago area!

I am especially thankful for the support of @jhenig.bsky.social, Susan Moffitt, @cohodes.bsky.social, @michaelgmiller.bsky.social, Rebecca Jacobsen, @dmhouston.bsky.social, and, the one who has supported me since my very fist college seminar, Jasper LiCalzi.

I am excited to share that this fall I will be starting as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at North Central College! 🎊

As a proud graduate of a liberal arts college, I’m happy to be heading to an institution committed to rigorous, democratic, and student-centered education.

Increasingly, the students we teach are already familiar with education politics from their own K12 experiences! Many of them have chaotic “school board” or “school district” politics stories. This often makes for easy, tangible connections with many of the themes and concepts we teach!

The Influence of Partisanship in Local School Board Elections: Evidence from Exit Polling in Michigan & Rhode Island Education in the U.S. has long been shaped by local school boards elected in nonpartisan contests, a structure intended to shield schools from broader political forces. Today, many states are consider...

Excited to share a new @annenberginstitute.bsky.social working paper, co-authored w/ Rebecca Jacobsen. We’ve been exploring what happens when national partisan politics reach one of the most local arenas of American democracy—school board elections?

edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1360

Administrative Designs and Access to Political Arenas in Public Education What administrative and political features render spaces of political action publicly accessible? Drawing on Schattschneider's core elements of visibility and scope, we offer a framework to identify ...

How do administrative designs shape access to democracy? We analyze U.S. school district websites and meetings to show how bureaucracy and group mobilization facilitate access to school board info and the democratic process. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @jonathanecollins.bsky.social

Given education's essential role in shaping democracy and its recent drift into general, partisan politics, we argue that poli sci should take seriously studying the broader political dynamics of education & offer suggestions as to how to do so.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Are you a political scientist who studies/teaches education policy? Read this. Use it to improve your syllabi.

Are you an education researcher who studies/teaches politics? Read this. Use it to improve your syllabi.

As I start my read of 107 Days, I have to remind myself that 77.3 million people voted for Trump and 75 million voted for Kamala, but 90 million eligible voters didn’t vote at all… 🗳️

Destroying Fed independence is almost the perfect example of latent opinion. Polls won’t tell you the effect on public opinion because most people don’t think about and/or understand monetary policy basics. But if you cause inflation or stagflation, future public opinion will be very disapproving.

Native Peoples, American Colonialism, and the US Constitution Fall 2025 Session Presented in person at The New York Historical and via Zoom* Meeting Dates & Times: Fridays, November 7 and 21, December 5 and 12, 2025 | 11 am–2 pm ET Instructors: Maggie Blackhawk, Ned Blackhawk SEMINAR DESCRIPTION: As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, this seminar invites a critical examination of a central paradox in American constitutional history: how can a nation celebrate a founding document and constitutional tradition built, in part, on the dispossession of Indigenous homelands? From the Founders’ long-standing relationships with Native nations to the grievances lodged regarding ‘merciless Indian savages’ into the Declaration, Indian affairs and westward expansion were foundational to the creation and evolution of the US Constitution. The Northwest Ordinance laid the “blueprint for empire” for federal imperial expansion from thirteen states clinging to the Eastern seaboard to a nation that stretched “from sea to shining sea,” while the United States Constitution excluded “Indians not taxed” from American polity—in so doing, also codifying the specific subordination of a people by name within constitutional text. Despite this deep entanglement, Native history remains marginalized within the fields of constitutional history and mainstream constitutional scholarship. This seminar explores emerging historical and legal literature that re-centers Native peoples and American colonialism in the narrative of US constitutional development. Topics include the role of Native peoples and “Indian affairs” in the Constitution’s initial drafting and ratification and the legal architecture of colonial expansion. The seminar will also explore how centering Native peoples allows for a rethinking of United States constitutional history and American public law more broadly.

Junior faculty and grad students in political science, history, law, and Native American Studies, come take a class with us at the New York Historical Society (and via Zoom) on Native Peoples, American Colonialism, and the U.S. Constitution.

To apply, Institute for Constitutional History: 1/2

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

Excited to circulate another @caldercenter.bsky.social WP! Another study from my dissertation, w/ @roddy-theobald.bsky.social‬. Using data from WA, we track individual paraeducators to predict exit from the state education workforce. Ungated WP here: ‬ tinyurl.com/3wtfrm2m
🧵 below:

So excited for this!

The book comes out next month! You can preorder now from SUNY or that other place that sells books on the internet.

sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...

Jerry Min Receives the 2025 APSA Best Poster Award for “Do Left Governments Tax More? How States Tax Global Capital With Tax Treaties” The APSA Best Poster Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best poster presented by a graduate student or early career scholar at the previous APSA Annual Meeting. Citation from the Award Committee: Jerry Jie Min (Harvard University) has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 APSA Best Poster Award for his poster, “Left Governments Offer More Tax Incentives to Foreign Investors Through International Treaties.” Chosen from among over 200 eligible posters presented by graduate students and early-career scholars at the APSA Annual Meeting, Min’s poster exemplified excellence across all four of our evaluation criteria: clarity and organization; research quality and rigor; relevance and impact; and presentation and engagement.

Jerry Min Receives the 2025 APSA Best Poster Award for “Do Left Governments Tax More? How States Tax Global Capital With Tax Treaties”

The APSA Best Poster Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best poster presented by a graduate student or…

looking forward to some parents suing to demand segregated schools because integration violates their religious beliefs

Local Elections, National Tides: The Role of Partisanship in School Board Elections: 2024 Post-Election Reflection Series - Prior to the 2024 US Presidential Election, APSA’s Diversity and Inclusion Programs Department issued a call for submissions, entitled 2024 APSA Post-Election Reflections, for a PSNow blog series of political science scholars who reflect on [...]

In our 2024 U.S. Post-Election Reflection via
@apsa.bsky.social, Rebecca Jacobsen and I preview some of our ongoing research on how partisanship and nationalization influence on-cycle local school board elections.