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Black Politics and American Democracy

We’re in a moment of democratic upheaval in the U.S., w/ race central to how many understand the crisis.

Join Katherine Tate, @coreydfields.bsky.social, & me as we talk Black politics & American Democracy.

In-person & Zoom!
May 18, 4–5:30pm PT

Info + RSVP: cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/events/black...

PRIEC Fans! 📣 @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social is hosting PRIEC on ✨Friday, May 8th✨

For more information, including the fantastic lineup, please visit: polsci.ucsb.edu/news/priec-c...

RSVP to attend by Tuesday, April 21st.

Agendas and Instability in American Local Politics: A Study of the Austin City Council Agenda 1900-2020 How does the itinerary of topics that the government chooses to focus on change over time at the local level? The everyday life of citizens has been directly impacted by decisions made at the local…

Gratitude to the @psjeditor.bsky.social team for featuring my article "Agendas and Instability in American Local Politics" with Peter Mortensen in their blog! psjblog.net/2026/04/15/a...

Consider that there are 0 Black political scientists at research universities in the mountain time zone region.

New publication alert 📣: With data from Spain, Fran Villamil and I show that the long-term impact of authoritarianism on civil society vary across generations [open access] cup.org/3ObemzP

More than brown: how race and skin tone matter for Latino group identity How can we more accurately measure racial identity among Latinos? Does Latinos’ self-described race and/or skin color influence feelings of closeness with racial rather than ethnic groups? This art...

📢How can we better capture the nuances of Latino racial identity? Clealand & Gutierrez investigate this, challenging a homogenous view of racial identity and finding differing racial identities between mixed & medium skin tone Latinos, and Black Latinos.

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

Cover drop and I'm in love
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@tabithabonilla.bsky.social at #MARGIE2026

It’s present across the ideological spectrum from the “you racialized my party and made us lose” liberals, to “identity politics is just a trap” leftists, to outright parroting of race science by conservatives.

New paper out in @thejop.bsky.social : "Immigration, Public Housing, and Support for the French National Front."

How does expanding public housing affect far-right support? The answer depends heavily on local conditions, and specifically on local immigrant shares.

Paper: doi.org/10.1086/736361

Screenshot of title and abstract of article, “Reconsideration of Secure Communities rollout reveals preemptive local-federal cooperation in immigration enforcement.”

NEW (and open access!) in @pnas.org:

We find that Secure Communities triggered “preemptive” immigration enforcement, increasing detentions, transfers, & removals even before formal county activation.

Joint with @cvargas100.bsky.social and @immigrationlab.bsky.social

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From one of our newest faculty members here at UCLA Political Science and his collaborators 💯
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@cvargas100.bsky.social (
(César Vargas)

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Hey y'all! Deadline for this post-doc is FRIDAY!!! Don't miss it!

Research Assistant II Company Description: By working at Harvard University, you join a vibrant community that advances Harvard's world-changing mission in meaningful ways, inspires innovation and collaboration, and builds...

🚨🚨 My lab is hiring a Pre-doc Researcher/Lab Manager! 🚨🚨

Full-time pre-doc research opening in my lab at Harvard Psych (start: Summer/Fall 2026).

Review begins April 10
Apply: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/HarvardUnive...

Please repost + tag folks who might be a good fit! 👇

excellent additions to the intergroup relations lab

Reciprocal political socialization within contemporary American families: Evidence from two randomized experiments April 23-26, 2026 | #MPSA2026 In Event: Speech and Political Expression Sun, April 26, 8 to 9:30 CDT Roberto F. Carlos et al University of Michigan Center for Political Studies

Children can influence their parents’ politics, especially on new issues. In diverse, tech-connected families, parents are receptive to political cues from their children, particularly on emerging topics like AI regulation. Don't miss @robertocarlos.bsky.social et al at #MPSA2026.

thank you for organizing! looking forward to it!

Borders and Belonging: Migration Challenges and Solutions conference Borders and Belonging: Migration Challenges and Solutions conference, Toulouse, TSE/IAST Building, May 5–6, 2026.

📣 Registration is officially OPEN!

Join us in Toulouse this May for our conference on „Borders and Belonging: Migration Challenges and Solutions“

🗓️ May 5-6, 2026
📍 Toulouse (@iast.fr/ @tse-fr.eu)

Check out our program and register here 👇
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Really fun experience working on this paper with @owasow.bsky.social. When you think about it, it's just two Black and Jewish guys studying the effects of a Black and Jewish partnership to build 5,000 Black schools in the rural South on participation in the Civil Rights Movement

We often ask who wins elections. But who decides to run? New @electoralstudies.bsky.social w/@mhayes.bsky.social: Multi-member districts ⬆️ Black candidate emergence—and political empowerment matters. We revisit assumptions about US electoral design and show who enters the pipeline—not just who wins.

Trump’s Anti‑Latino Racism Is a Growing Threat to Democracy Latinos Must Forge Stronger Political Solidarity with Black People to Remove It

Republished in The Fulcrum today, based on growing evidence from our REPS Lab...

thefulcrum.us/democracy/tr...

This paper is now out for review! We've also posted a revised version with improved model specifications and additional robustness checks. You can check it out on my website here: mattjmartin.com/research/wor...

Proud to have "Nonbinary Gender Economics" out in JPE Micro. We document the economic experiences and preferences of nonbinary individuals—a population of 1M+ in the US that is often overlooked.

Cooperating through distrust: seeking remedies to state and community violence This article focuses on a crucial issue in Black politics: the spectrum of trust. Building on Monica Bell’s theory of situational trust, I explain how community members in three South Side Chicago ...

This is the article btw. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

YO! I got PGI Best Article Award for 2026. Isn't that cool?! I didn't even know folks read my stuff.

New #OpenAccess Paper Alert! 🚨

In @apsrjournal.bsky.social, @gmcclendon.bsky.social and I present results from a collaborative field experiment with the Institute for Governance Reform around a switch from plurality rules to closed-list PR rules in Sierra Leone’s 2023 parliamentary elections. A🧵:

Screenshot of the title page of a journal article in Information, Communication & Society by Ross Dahlke and coauthors. The article is titled “Style and substance on The Alex Jones Show predict InfoWars sales: a multi-modal analysis of a media empire.” The abstract explains that the study combines daily InfoWars sales data from 2016 to 2018 with linguistic, auditory, and topical features from Alex Jones’s radio show and online articles, finding that some styles and topics predict next-day sales.

Image description Line chart showing daily InfoWars sales in dollars from January 2016 through December 2018. Sales are highly volatile, with frequent spikes, but generally rise from relatively low levels in early 2016 to a higher and more sustained range through 2017 and 2018, often around $100,000 to $300,000 per day, with occasional peaks approaching $1 million.

Image description Multi-panel figure showing daily trends in selected themes and styles in Alex Jones radio shows and InfoWars news articles from 2016 to 2018. The left column tracks radio show content including Power, Bio, Achieve, Focus Future, and Money; the right column tracks article content including Power, Achieve, Money, Anger, and Focus Future. Gray daily values are overlaid with smoothed trend lines, showing that some themes shift gradually over time while others remain fairly stable.

Image description Multi-panel figure showing daily trends in major topics in Alex Jones radio shows and InfoWars news articles from 2016 to 2018. Radio show panels include Nationalism, Politicians, Show Slogans, Promotions, and Fake News; article panels include Trump, Scientific Discoveries and Controversies, Media and Politics, Attacking Democrats, and Global Conflicts. Smoothed trend lines show modest but noticeable changes over time, including persistent attention to Trump and politics in articles and nationalism and political messaging in radio content.

New from me, @yunkangyang.bsky.social @jolukito.bsky.social @jasong.bsky.social @m-dot-brown.bsky.social @beccalew.bsky.social: analyzing sales data released from InfoWar's court case, we find that certain styles (linguistic and auditory) used by Alex Jones on his radio show predict next-day sales

This paper by @angieocampo.bsky.social examines Latine immigrants’ perceptions of group status relative to White and Black individuals, highlighting how these perceptions shape their understanding of the U.S. racial hierarchy.

Check it out: doi.org/10.1017/S104...

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