Dive into this PSJ open-access article analyzing turnout patterns among young adults and explore the mechanisms connecting adolescent welfare participation to later voting behavior. By Nathan K. Micatka Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ps…

New in Political Psychology: “Waking up to politics: How sleep quality relates to political participation”: doi.org/10.1111/pops.7… With Nate Micatka & Aleks Ksiazkiewicz, we examined how sleep quality relates to voter turnout & non-electoral participation across multiple countries. 🧵1/8

Our key finding: decisions are perceived as harder than logistics. Our measures reveal that citizens perceive deciding who to support as more difficult than registering to vote, casting a ballot in person, waiting in line 10 minutes, updating registration after moving, or showing

Our findings reveal that the focus of the academic literature has been in the wrong place. If a goal of the literature is to reduce the cost of voting, our results show the election administration literature should focus on making decisions easier, rather than focused on

Congratulations to Cameron Arnzen on his appointment as Assistant Professor of Political Science at North Central College! His research examines how education policy & institutions shape democratic participation, governance, & public life. We’re excited to see this work continue!

Thrilled to have this paper accepted Journal of Politics @[email protected]! We show that New Deal public works spending has had a persistent effect on public employment. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/74…

The first of my dissertation papers is officially out in PSJ (@psjeditor.bsky.social)! 🎉 I wrote about it in this post for the NCC Political Science Bulletin! open.substack.com/pub/nccpols/p/…

Students are confused about when and how they can use AI in their coursework. Policies vary wildly across courses and institutions. Talking about "assistive" vs "generative" is not useful. Here's my fix with some useful tools (a thread 🧵):

Marc Porter Magee 🎓 Already in the game... APSA Section on Education Politics & Policy Ursula Hackett Stéphane Lavertu Vladimir Kogan Deven Carlson Ashley Jochim Cameron Arnzen Rebecca Jacobsen Domingo Morel Cadence Willse Patrick Wolf David Houston Michael Hartney Susan Moffitt Brown University Sarah Reckhow MSU

“We should design policies that make it easy for everyone to vote, make it easy for everyone to access their basic democratic rights, and maybe even go a step further and make it desirable and engaging and a positive experience," Arnzen said. Brown Daily Herald browndailyherald.com/article/2026/0…