Beth Simas

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨

I’m excited to share a new working paper, co-authored with
@bethsimas.bsky.social and @zeynsom.bsky.social :

“Candidate Gender and Position Switching”

Full paper here 👉 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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How Features of Policy Design and Misperceptions Shape Public Opinion Housing vouchers are both effective and widely supported, yet the housing vouchers program is underfunded. This may be due to American’s conflicting views about housing assistance. Recent scholarship ...

Congratulations to Lucia Lopez on receiving a Russell Sage Foundation Dissertation Research Grant! 🎉

Lucia will be on the academic job market this year. You can learn more about her research at www.lucia-lopez.com.

www.russellsage.org/awarded-proj...

A write up about some of my recent work on electability
blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

I don't understand why they don't schedule sessions before assigning discussants. As a section chair, it would actually be easier to pick people with proximate panels vs scrambling to make changes.

It’s not me, it’s you? Reexamining how perceived sexism impacts candidate electability The 2020 US Presidential Election put the focus on the electability of women, and the emerging consensus is that perceptions of the sexism of others contribute to views that women are less able to ...

Now available: I fail to find evidence of strategic discrimination against women in primaries
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Send me your elections and voting proposals for APSA 2024
connect.apsanet.org/apsa2024/202...

Garamond

I'll add in gravity falls