Redistricting has been a hot topic this past year, but what do fair maps actually look like? Join the Program on American Institutional Renewal (PAIR) for our first event of 2026: A lecture on the values, trade-offs, and future of redistricting, given by Dr. Wendy Tam of Vanderbilt University!
This is how I've started teaching administrative law. Students respond really well to it fwiw
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
New paper: LLMs are increasingly used to label data in political science. But how reliable are these annotations, and what are the consequences for scientific findings? What are best practices? Some new findings from a large empirical evaluation.
Paper: eddieyang.net/research/llm_annotation.pdf
A joint statement from Robert George (Princeton), Jeannie Suk Gersen (Harvard), Tom Ginsburg (Chicago), Robert Post (Yale), David Rabban (Texas) & Keith Whittington (Yale) on the Compact. A politically diverse group known for writing & work on campus issues.
tomginsburg.substack.com/p/on-the-com...
we have been working on this new polling aggregation website for a few months now, and are excited to share it with the world! plenty more features and polls to come.
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
Fact Sheet: Maintaining student status when an SEVP certified school closes or loses its certification to enroll F-1 nonimmigrant students
www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis...
Heading your way in the July edition of the JOP!
@jamilscott.bsky.social, @elizabethlane.bsky.social, and I started it as grad students. Seven years, multiple surveys, countless hours of work…we are delighted (and in mild disbelief) to see it in print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Someone posted this Monday; but, I neglected to get the name.
Orange Monday: The global stock market is collapsing.
🇭🇰 Hong Kong -13.6%
🇹🇼 Taiwan -9.6%
🇯🇵 Japan -9.5%
🇮🇹 Italy -8.4%
🇸🇬 Singapore -8%
🇸🇪 Sweden -7%
🇨🇳 China -7%
🇨🇭 Switzerland -7%
🇩🇪 Germany -6.8%
🇪🇸 Spain -6.4%
🇳🇱 Netherlands -6.2%
🇦🇺 Australia -6.2%
🇫🇷 France -6.1%
🇬🇧 UK -5.2%
#OrangeMonday #TrumpTariffs
How does Congress maintain power and meet the challenges of Trump 2.0?
That’s what this issue of Hypertext explores.
Let’s dive in. 🧵
PAIR is searching for a two-year postdoc! Please consider applying or sharing with folks who might be interested! Feel free to reach out to me with any questions about the position, PAIR, or Purdue in general.
careers.purdue.edu/job/PAIR-Pos...
Congrats Siv! Well-deserved!
I am one of more than 700 political scientists who signed this statement "express[ing] our urgent concern about threats to the basic design of American government and democracy" and urging the administration to stop undermining democracy and the rule of law.
drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2...
From our new issue: "The Liar’s Dividend: Can Politicians Claim Misinformation to Evade Accountability?" by Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Daniel Schiff, and Natália Bueno. #ASPRNewIssue www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-p...
An image of the book cover for "Courts Unmasked: Civil Legal System Reform and Covid-19"
Hi Bluesky friends! I thought I’d use my first-ever post to announce that it’s publication day for my book, Courts Unmasked: Civil Legal System Reform and COVID-19 with @univpressofkansas.bsky.social 🎉🎉 1/🧵
Title: Curation Bubbles Abstract: Information on social media is characterized by networked curation processes in which users select other users from whom to receive information, and those users in turn share information that promotes their identities and interests. We argue this allows for partisan “curation bubbles” of users who share and consume content with consistent appeal drawn from a variety of sources. Yet, research concerning the extent of filter bubbles, echo chambers, or other forms of politically segregated information consumption typically conceptualizes information’s partisan valence at the source level as opposed to the story level. This can lead domain-level measures of audience partisanship to mischaracterize the partisan appeal of sources’ constituent stories—especially for sources estimated to be more moderate. Accounting for networked curation aligns theory and measurement of political information consumption on social media.
Figure 1: Stylized Examples a) Users consuming information directly from sources b) Users curating information for other users
Figure 4: URL Scores by Share Volume for Selected Domains on Twitter and Facebook
Figure 8: Proportion of URLs Substantively Distinct from Domain for Different Facebook Engagement Types
Extremely happy to share that "Curation Bubbles" is online (open access!) at @apsrjournal.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A popular tool in political science for dealing with nonlinearities in invalidated by...
...nonlinearities.
datacolada.org/121
There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence.
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📣Really excited to be hosting another webinar on careers outside academia
📅 Friday, April 12th at Noon MT on Zoom
👥 Open to the public
🗣️ If you're a grad student in the social sciences, a professor, or anyone else, please join us.
Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Please share widely!
Very interesting DC circuit opinion on former president Trump's assertion of immunity from prosecution 1/
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Dartmouth is reinstating the SAT. They analyzed their data and found 2 key things:
1) Test scores were a better predictor of success than high school grades/essays/recommendations
2) The test-optional policy was harming low-income kids who would have been accepted
www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/b...
3. When to use IV Never
Always a good time to upload this one.
My book, "The Invented State: Misperceptions in the American Public" is out and available to order: www.amazon.com/Invented-Sta.... Here's the argument in a nutshell -- I'll use this thread to expand on each point.
Collage of newspaper headlines expressing shock at Jan. 6 "insurrection" "attempted coup."
I'm a single-issue voter this year, and you should be too.
