I'm very pleased to announce a new journal that will be rolling out in 2020: the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy. Or JPIPE. It will be published by now publishers, who also publish the QJPS Editors.

New article in the APSR evaluates prevalence of possible voting fraud. Based on a huge battery of evidence, it finds "Double voting is not currently carried out in such a systematic way that it presents a threat to the integrity of American elections." doi.org/10.1017/S00030…

I know things can escalate really quickly, but I didn't have a good sense of what to expect over the next week. So, I used country-level data on confirmed #COVID19 cases to generate a 7-day projection based on a simple time-series model: williammarble.co/blog/2020-03/c…

Let's stop with the BS... Voting by mail in large numbers (via absentee or all vote by mail) won't make a partisan difference. What it will do is help turnout stay up and keep folks safe. This seems like a win for everyone. cnn.com/world/live-new…

This analysis is really frustrating, and not something I would signed off on at FiveThirtyEight. Let me try and go through some of the reasons why. nytimes.com/2020/04/21/us/…

Matthew Yglesias Things may have changed recently, but R and D sheriffs cooperated with ICE at similar rates--another highly salient, nationally contested enforcement choice stanford.edu/~dthomp/papers…

I haven’t been tweeting much lately, but I have to thank the firefighters at SAN FRANCISCO FIRE DEPARTMENT MEDIA. I woke up to this massive fire half a block away from my apartment—I could feel the heat from my window. Thankfully the firefighters kept it from spreading to the houses on my block.

Congrats to Michael Morse for PhD defense today -- Full of voter file, ballot image, and court records data, an engrossing three-party story of the Florida Amendment 4 bipartisan electoral coalition and the depths of fees and fines, disenfranchisement scholar.harvard.edu/morse

Paper is osf.io/preprints/soca…. Election aggregates and even polls are ambiguous wrt actual rate of ticket splitting. For anyone planning to work w/ election administrators to study this data in other states, I'd love to get in touch.

.David Becker praises the election workers and volunteers who put in long hours to count ballots: "We won't know all of their names. It's too bad, because they are heroes of democracy." cbsnews.com/live-updates/2…

Chris Hayes The guy who plays Spider in School of Rock is currently the elected District Attorney of Tyler County, Texas

We have a New Working Paper on the political economy of politicians’ neighborhoods! We show that politicians live in richer neighborhoods and protect them from undesirable buildings and the removal of public goods. A thread 1/11, and the Paper: nottingham.ac.uk/research/group…