Excited to share the launch of my new center at UCSD focused on trust and transparency in U.S. elections. We will be supporting research on election administration and voter confidence through research-practice partnerships. More to come! today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san...
Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.
Best thing I’ve read on the assault on higher education.
For the history books, whoever will be writing them.
A timely and trenchant piece by Suresh Naidu. When future generations sift through the wreckage of our era, they’ll find it strewn with the institutional and personal failures of leaders both great and small.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
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🚨 A new kind of political science textbook has arrived—and it might just disrupt the entire textbook industry. It’s called A Political Science Experiment, and here’s why you should care. 👇
🔗 politicsexperiment.com
At the same time, saying goodbye to UC San Diego is bittersweet. I will miss amazing colleagues and close friends, to whom I’m very grateful.
I officially start at Duke today. I am thrilled to join and look forward to new collaborations and to engaging with colleagues and students.
Check out our article in Broadstreet about our ambitious project!
www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-making...
New, from me: Marco Rubio used to boast that he was banned from China, calling it a totalitarian state.
Now he combines a) new surveillance capabilities to monitor and punish international students, with b) little accountability or due process. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...
“If universities are not willing to stand up for the free speech and academic freedom of their students and faculty, then what, if any, values do they stand for?”
cc @ucsandiego.bsky.social @ucnewsroom.bsky.social
@ucsandiego.bsky.social should follow the Tufts Fletcher faculty recommendation that universities join forces to file a class action suit against this administration.
reason.com/volokh/2025/...
Excerpt from Rutgers University Senate resolution calling for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. The excerpt reads: "BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement;"
This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
I completely agree with this, no enabling in advance (looking at you Johns Hopkins)
NEW: Senior polisci colleagues @ Columbia endorse our letter on how we would respond to the Trump attack. For expidiency we 5 did not ask for other signatures. Grateful for strong show of unity. @vickymurillo.bsky.social @pagefortna.bsky.social
Letter: danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post...
🚨New pre-print! It builds on the State Formation seminar that I teach at Yale, benefiting from rich conversations with brilliant students. The piece tackles state formation, state building, and outlines 3 paths of future research: civil wars, international constraints, and bureaucratic capacity.
The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.
Check out my new paper w Brenton and Emiel. Just out at World Politics: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
After years work assembling and organizing it, together with Bruno Calderón, John Marshall and José Luis Perez Castellanos, we present you the "Electoral precinct-level database for Mexican municipal elections" osf.io/6jteh/ dropbox.com/scl/fi/3kqnb...
In short, we find no evidence to support for the idea that tax evaders would reciprocate by complying if the government provided valuable infrastructure.
Fiscal contracts, if they exist among regular taxpayers, do not appear to be fostered by the provision of public goods.
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In addition, we find:
> No heterogeneity in the effects of infrastructure.
> No effect even when taxpayers are randomly reminded via mail of the connection between their property taxes and the provision of local infrastructure.
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We confirm that Hábitat improved infrastructure, particularly piped water and sewerage, and increased program recall by residents.
Despite large benefits/recognition, we find no changes in tax compliance using administrative tax data. We can rule out even small effects.
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Past/ongoing research finds large effects of Hábitat on access to infrastructure, property values, and local economic development. These benefits are not surprising given the magnitude of the investments.
> www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
> gps.ucsd.edu/_files/facul...
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We study Hábitat, a program that made large investments in low income neighborhoods to provide urban infrastructure like piped water, sewerage, electrification, and other amenities. Investments were substantial and co-funded between federal and local governments.
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Can the provision of public goods increase tax compliance?
In a new working paper with Anne Brockmeyer & Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, we study a large public investment experiment and find that local public infrastructure does not improve property tax compliance in Mexico City. #polisky #econsky
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Gunpowder-Empire Fiscal Legibility & State Development: Economic History/Political Economy Seminar
Francisco Garfias & Emily A. Sellars: "Fiscal Legibility & State Development" :: 2024-03-04 12:30 PST :: Philosophy 223, U.C. Berkeley……
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