Now available online at Annual Review of Political Science: "Formal Theories of Special Interest Influence" with Keith Schnakenberg (annualreviews.org/content/journa…) As always, read it, cite it, love it.

This is a valuable paper because it (1) uses redistricting algorithms to explore new substantive issues; and (2) establishes a surprising redistricting motive — placing firms in particular districts.

End the single-member district that makes gerrymandering possible and very profitable (for politicians). (the business case, against extortion) cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Business firms are over-allocated to districts held by the mapmakers’ party when partisans control the redistricting process, suggesting that gerrymandering is directed at companies as well as voters cambridge.org/core/journals/…

NEW: Ticketmaster is spending record sums on lobbying amid antitrust scrutiny. Since merging with Live Nation in 2010, Ticketmaster has faced accusations of predatory practices leading to high ticket prices, sparking a DOJ lawsuit. 👇 crp.org/ticket

Do partisan mapmakers gerrymander firms much like they gerrymander seats? In a recent, American Political Science Review, Joaquin Artes, Aaron R Kaufman, Brian Kelleher Richter, and Jeffrey F. Timmons find that they do! politicalsciencenow.com/gerrymandering…

Amazon's strategy to set prices low for its Alexa-enabled smart devices, expecting them to generate income elsewhere in the tech giant, hasn't paid off on.wsj.com/4bS9AwN on.wsj.com/4bS9AwN

Democratic Silicon Valley billionaire Reid Hoffman gives $7m to Harris, immediately demands she fire FTC Chair Lina Khan.

Worth a read to understand what a Harris administration might do or not do on antitrust

This is the first successful Sherman Act, Section II case brought by the government since Microsoft case was decided in 2001 theverge.com/2024/8/5/24155…

US legislators gerrymander corporate headquarters into their own districts finds Aaron R Kaufman of @nyuabudhabi and co-authors wp.me/p3I2YF-ebn

US legislators gerrymander corporate headquarters into their own districts finds Aaron R Kaufman of @nyuabudhabi and co-authors wp.me/p3I2YF-ebn

Insights on what has happened to academic publishing as contributions to knowledge have started to matter less instrumentally than citations blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

🚨 Our latest paper is out today in Science! We uncover stark and systematic partisan differences in the amount, content, and character of science used in policy, which mirror differences in political elites’ trust in science. Four years in the making. Led by Zander Furnas 1/n

🚨 Our latest paper just came out in Science, where we report a simple, historical pattern: From 1980 to 2020, Republican lawmakers consistently funded science at a higher level than their Democratic counterparts. four years in the making. Led by Zander Furnas thread 1/n