Existence of a Peaceful Monopoly of Violence
Got Theory? @scottfabramson.bsky.social, @emielawad.bsky.social, and @brentonkenkel.bsky.social developed a formal model of #anarchic #competition. Read their full article, “Designing Political Order,” and how their model changed the game in studies of political order: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...
There is no data in this paper....it's a theoretical model.
The inaugural Research in Behavior and Institutions (RBI) conference was my kind of academic utopia: political science by day, fantasy baseball draft by night.
Plurality?
The CNN domino falls, and the media landscape is getting very competitive authoritarian-y… www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/b...
Every agent who participated in this should spend the rest of their life in prison.
"Democrats Versus Democracy: The Southern Response to the Voting Rights Act" by Mayya Komisarchik.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.
D. A huge stinker youtu.be/boKihmOqypc?...
Again, I'll bang the lonely 🥁 that, whatever faults you have with Joe Biden as a person or his policy positions on ____, Actual Joe Biden was FAR & AWAY the most progressive president of your & my lifetime, with the slimmest Congressional majorities ever, & it wasn't close:
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JOIN us for this year’s Rebecca Morton conference on experimental political science at NYU! March 6-7. We have a great line up of papers and posters!
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I never thought I'd be a single issue voter but I am now.
If I ran MI6 or the BND, I think I would be concentrating a lot of my effort to influencing the US midterm elections.
This is who voted against establishing DHS
My group has a 3-year position available for a PhD student or post-doc interested in India, ML models/data pipelines/python, and crime and protecting children. Must be eligible to work in Germany. DM or email me for details. Formal calls later, trying here first. #poliscisky #datasciencesky
Stonehenge
Bari Weiss doesn't want you to see this unless it includes "the other side" from an administration official
This. Exactly this.
If such a mapping exists, sure. In practice, (probably) you’ll find that the assumptions required ex post are much stronger than if you had explicitly designed a survey or experiment to generate the identifying variation for the theoretical object you care about.
We’re supposed to be in the business of confronting and falsifying theory yet we often lack the tools because we never defined the theoretical objects in the first place. Anyway, Dan McFadden also won a Nobel prize but (basically) no discrete choice is taught in mainstream poli-sci anymore.
Start by writing down a mode and then specify the identifying variation needed to recover its parameters. Design your survey, experiment, or empirical strategy to target the substantively meaningful theoretical object. The world is not filled with ATE Pokémon to collect.
That is, too many people cannot grasp that the mapping from E[Y(1)−Y(0)] to their theoretical quantity requires real assumptions. These assumptions should be made up front, not retrofitted post-hoc.
Here’s my moderately hot take: the Neyman–Rubin framework has sent a generation of political behavior scholars down the wrong path. The LATE they recover is rarely the structural parameter they "theorize" about.
Postdoc call‼️
I am opening a call for a postdoctoral position within my ERC project CONSENT.
Come to Madrid to be part of my research team and more broadly of the @ipp-csic.bsky.social community.
Application deadline: December 10th.
Call details: tinyurl.com/yfu83p9m
A new postdoc position is now available at the Center for European Studies at Harvard for 2026 2027, The Guido Goldman postdoctoral fellowship, named after our center's founder
A great opportunity to work at Harvard for the year. Here is more information:
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I saw a comedian say: after 10 months, he hasn't figured out what "tariffs" are.
Bottom line: US tariffs are essentially sales taxes on lower-income and retired Americans.
The explicit goal+mechanism of tariffs is to force those people to pay more for the same products.
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There goes Shohei Ohtani, the best that ever was.
Higher education is the 4th most trusted institution in America, behind only hospitals and doctors, the military, and scientists and researchers, according to a sweeping new 50-state study on public attitudes toward universities
#URochesterResearch | uofr.us/48yuKlD
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I bet the ADL will find some new way to defend these literal Nazis.
Unfortunately, reality is only apparent *after* elections.
