Dr. Philip J. Howe

American Political Development methodologies are powerful because it blends analysis of politics + history similar to, but not the same as what historians do. This is a great overview by Rosenberg of Suzanne Mettler's new book arguing that the rural/urban political urban divide is not inevitable.

Play It Again, Claude The rise and fall of the player piano indicates a robust demand for human labor that AI cannot replace.

The rise and fall of a piano-playing machine in the early 1900s indicates a robust demand for human labor that AI cannot replace, Adam Ozimek argues:

President Trump is trying to make it harder to vote. Here's why that matters Trump is promoting tighter restrictions on mail-in ballots as well as passage of the SAVE Act, which requires proof of citizenship to vote. UCLA professor Richard Hasen unpacks the ramifications.

SECOND WIND:

On @nprfreshair.bsky.social, Terry Gross speaks with election law expert Rick Hasen about the 2026 voting landscape, who says “the greatest threat to free and fair elections in 2026 is interference from the federal government.”

www.npr.org/2026/03/03/n...

@rickhasen.bsky.social

The presidential search process should not be controlled by unaccountable trustees.

Faculty, students, and staff deserve meaningful participation in selecting university leadership.

Sign & share to ensure an inclusive & transparent process for Ohio State University’s ongoing presidential search.

Dialogues of Confucius: The Complete Text by Confucius, translated with commentary by Brian Bruya and Wenwen Li

The first complete English translation of the Dialogues, a rediscovered companion to the Analects.

Dialogues of Confucius, translated with commentary by Brian Bruya and Wenwen Li, is out now (5 May UK pub)!

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#Confucius #Philosophy

Blue Bottle?

UPDATE: Done aleady. That was super fast! Bored now.

Just checked in for knee surgery. Shouldn't be a problem - not my first rodeo - but wish me luck!

For Women's History Month, check out this free to access article where "the results suggest a simple but powerful conclusion: as far as candidate quality is concerned, women should run more and men should run less."

doi.org/10.1017/S104...

#polisky #womenshistorymonth

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

When two kinds of unintelligence collude...

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

Drinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy On le Carré and drinking

open.substack.com/pub/lecarrec...

Polish analysis finds that Orbán has lost the digital battle against Magyar The report points out that although the PM posts more, his posts reach fewer people, while Magyar is so successful that he has been able to build a community without political advertising.

telex.hu/english/2026...?

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I'm actually hoping for either the Imperial march or the disco version of the James Bond theme.

Little-known fact: this band was actually formed in celebration of my birth.

Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies Our new poll finds question wording can swing opinion by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights. That's a problem for people who use polls to tell politicians what voters want.

Great blog post by @gelliottmorris.com which is backed by decades of academic research. How you ask a question impacts how people answer the question!

This has important consequences for how to think about puic opinion and how to treat opinion polls. Short 🧵

5/6 🧵In JEPP, @alexanderhorn.bsky.social & co-authors study equality & party competition. Text & election data in 🇦🇺🇩🇰🇩🇪🇸🇪🇨🇭🇬🇧. Show center-left parties can gain votes by emphasizing econ. equality & equal rights, postmaterialist left parties only by emphasizing the latter. doi.org/qm52

The Green Gender Gap: Environmental attitudes and pro-environmental vote choice across Europe Does gender matter for how we engage with green political ideas? Using more than twenty years of data across 36 European countries, this paper identif…

Still controlling for gender without thinking about why? You can cite me💚👩‍🔬💚

I show that the gender gap in progressive climate and environmental views is a persistent empirical regularity that cannot be explained by differences in socioeconomic background, political ideology, or risk aversion.

My friend Abi Ocobock is an outstanding scholar. Please share this widely!

Logo for the European Journal of Political Research displaying the text "EJPR European Journal of Political Research" in cream letters on a blue background, accompanied by the hashtag "#OpenAccess".

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social -

Reference groups and electoral behavior - https://cup.org/46neAJZ

- Rune Stubager, Christoffer Hentzer Dausgaard, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social & Michael Lewis-Beck

#FirstView

This Is What the End of the Liberal World Order Looks Like In a post-American world, greed and nihilism are destroying Sudan.

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social and @lynseyaddario.bsky.social traveled to Sudan last year to report from the front lines of a brutal civil war. Addario’s photographs have been nominated for a National Magazine Award.

Revisit the cover story:

Humans 40,000 y ago developed a system of conventional signs | PNAS As humans, we store and share information. This allows us to distribute knowledge necessary for survival and to coordinate large groups. Our homini...

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Disproportionality is Sensitive to the Number of Parties: A Note on the Gallagher Index and a New Normalised Measure

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2025-khfwb-v3?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

#polisky

The rise of the strongman president has endangered US democracy - LSE Review of Books Trajectory of Power by Terry Moe and William Howell charts the expansion of US presidential power during the modern era and its consequences for democracy. This extract from the book's introduction…

NEW: The rise of the strongman president has endangered US democracy.

Trajectory of Power by Terry Moe & William Howell @princetonupress.bsky.social charts the expansion of US presidential power during the modern era and its dangerous consequences.

@lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social

School board votes are overwhelmingly unanimous & cover humdrum issues.

From a high school student's vibecoded open database of nationwide school board votes:
school-board-votes.up.railway.app
Nice example of now-possible independent research

i let @smotus.bsky.social convince me to pivot to video

#opportunity

Richard Georg Plaschka-Preis

Wissenschaftler:innen, außerordentliche Leistungen auf dem Gebiet der Ost-, Ostmittel- und Südosteuropäischen Geschichte erbracht und das 40. Lebensjahr noch nicht überschritten haben. @oeaw.bsky.social

stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/preise/geist...

Entanglements in World Politics by Peter J. Katzenstein
Insights from 20th-century science offer new, unconventional approaches to better understand and navigate 21st-century world politics.
📚 https://cup.org/4sjWIcr

Screenshot des Online-Vortrages "Kybernetik und Kritik." an der Uni Konstanz

Jetzt online: Mein Vortrag an der @uni-konstanz.de über Kybernetik und Kritik (@suhrkamp.de). Ich gebe einen Einblick in die Grundthesen des Buches; besonders in das letzte Kapitel über Technikfaschismus und den "kybernetischen Autoritarismus" (Musk et al.): streaming.uni-konstanz.de/paella/?tx_u...

Postdoctoral Position at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” Deadline: 20 February 2026, 12:00 pm CET

Postdoctoral Position at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” #ECPRMemberJobs
📅 Four-year term
🏫 @uni-konstanz.de
⌛ Fri 20 Feb
buff.ly/4wW09zu
#PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky