This is an incredible resource. Kudos to the researchers for their herculean work!

States of Distrust: Science and Politics in America James Druckman presented the Center for Political Studies 2026 Miller-Converse Lecture At the University of Michigan’s most distinguished lecture series on American electoral politics, political scien...

"'If you can increase the diversity of the scientific workforce, there’s some evidence that you can increase the trust in scientists,' Druckman explained... [diversity] encompassing not just race and gender but also rurality, religiosity, and class background."

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Comparative Political Studies - Volume 59, Number 6 Table of contents for Comparative Political Studies, 59, 6

The special issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social “Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies”, co-edited by myself and Isabela Mares, was just published. The issue includes 8 articles, many of which set new research agendas. A🧵w/overview 1/10
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I need this vest.

Despite my French last name, I'm 3/4 Italian and grew up with Italian traditions. Sauce is one of the easiest dishes. But despite my best efforts (and following her recipe exactly), my sauce is never as good as my mom's. I usually end up making a quick sauce like the one in Adam's mom's cookbook.

What kind of radical agenda are you pushing here, Ian?

Just a professor standing in front of BlueSky demoralized because exams my students used to get a mean of 83% on prior to 2020 are now failed in large numbers. It seems that their ability to APPLY concepts to new contexts/domains has all but disappeared.

I love these students & I am worried.

I no longer live near Whole Foods (or a Trader Joe's) but the thing I miss most from either of them are the WF dark chocolate sea salt caramels.

Who benefits from voter identification laws? | PNAS In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, many American state governments implemented voter identification (ID) laws for elections held...

Not about the racial turnout gap, but this study shows that the partisan effects are essentially nil due to countervailing mobilization effects www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This is my fundamental disagreement with Skowronek--I think he downplays agency in all of his work. Context and the conditions matter, but so do political skill and behavioral characteristics. Obama and Biden were, at the core, pragmatic incrementalists.

I don't necessary think Anthony is wrong, but the past two Democratic presidents have come into office under conditions that seemed to portend a potential reconstruction (using Skowronek's framework) and yet, here we are still stuck in perpetual preemption.

Don't tease me with the prospects of a reconstructive presidency.

All true. But Dems have relied on policy shaping politics for too long, and the absence of local party building has done immense damage to the party's "brand" and perception, especially in the sorts of places where MAGA and the GOP have made inroads. faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/djg249/galvi...

It's true that the party has had many significant policy achievements over the past 100 years, but he's also right that the Democratic Party is pretty damn unpopular among the mass public.

In approximately 20 years of grad school and life as a faculty member, I've never been to MPSA, but this would get me there.

Session 8: April 25, 3:45 to 5:15 Roundtable: What Can APD Teach US About Our Current Political Problems.

At the New England Political Science Association next week, here's the round-table you want: the one in the last possible time slot. 😁

All credit to @rlarochelle.bsky.social who brought me, @cnacken1.bsky.social @mgraber1.bsky.social + Prof. Aahmed together.

Just saving the best for last, Anna!

We're hiring a Lecturer in Honors. This is a teaching position with a 4/4 load & no research expectations. Deadline is Friday at 4:30. I'm an affiliate faculty in Honors and am on the committee and would be happy to answer any questions! fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Still fighting the good fight!

I don't think the last few weeks of the semester are kind to anyone...

Isn't it our job to entertain them? You know, to keep enrollments up? 🫠

I don't think I'd be able to stop the steam from coming out of my ears...

I've been teaching about the long battle for marriage equality this week, and I'm trying my hardest to emphasize just how goddamn hard it was. I feel like we have done a collectively poor job teaching how monumentally difficult political change in this country has always been.

I had a grumpy uncle moment last week when a student said something like, "Well no one ever taught me how to do that." And I replied that if I only knew how to do things that someone else taught me, I would have very few skills and very little knowledge. Take some initiative!

The profound lack of historical knowledge and the brushing off of remarkable historical achievements as "no big deal" is absolutely infuriating.

Ugh, that's awful.

Google Drive is a logistical and organizational abomination.

The Honors College is interdisciplinary, and courses combine faculty members areas of expertise with fundamental skills in research and scholarly inquiry. I teach first-year courses on American political development and moral courage, for example. It's a cool gig! Please share widely!

Lecturers at UMaine are renewable, permanent but non-tenure stream faculty. There is a promotion process and Lecturers can earn just cause status after six years (and promotion to Senior Lecturer and then Principal Lecturer). Faculty at UMaine are unionized.

We're hiring a Lecturer in Honors. This is a teaching position with a 4/4 load & no research expectations. Deadline is Friday at 4:30. I'm an affiliate faculty in Honors and am on the committee and would be happy to answer any questions! fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...