Congrats to Parvati!!! Again!!! Well deserved!!! #AustraliaVTheWorld #SurvivorAu

If you’re interested in American immigration attitudes and unique ways of assessing different dimensions of fairness, come see me this Thursday at 8:00 am at #APSA2025. The evidence comes from a large original survey and conjoint experiment I fielded this year (n=3,000+).

Very rough mockup (using CES data) showing relationship between party ID and perceptions of the economy. Next step is squaring this with actual economic data (also I'm not at APSA this year but don't worry, we've been cooking a few things up for MPSA and SPSA...)

how it started vs how its going

In his job market paper, Isaiah Johnson examines how voters’ perceptions of racial competency shape the behavior of Multiracial politicians. Using a formal model, he demonstrates how uncertainty limits the ability of Multiracial incumbents to signal credibility to diverse

I’m on the job market!! Using formal political theory, my JMP shows how climate disasters systematically make empirical evidence on climate and conflict mixed.

The best justification for free speech is not that humans have an intrinsic individual right to spout off. It’s that societies where individuals can spout off are better governed and more prosperous.

Latinos aren’t just turning away from the Democrats – they’re becoming more politically disengaged find Derek Wakefield of Bucknell University, Bernard L. Fraga of Emory University and Colin Fisk blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2025…

Teaching has been such a salve during these difficult political times (and I’m teaching Intro to American and REP). As tough as it is, helping students deal with these topics reminds me why I do this

Are you or one of your students considering doing a Ph.D. in a social science? I've spent a lot of time talking about this w/ students & finally wrote something up (link in thread👇). IMO, there are only 3 good reasons to do it. One of them needs to be true--otherwise, don't.

Some personal news: So thrilled to join POLITICO next month and work with such a stellar team of reporters and editors. Really excited for what’s ahead!

Are you into voters/parties/ideology/elections/administrative data? Then we have good news!✨ 🦈 Our first session of Fall 2025 is tomorrow 10/1 at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT! 🦈 We'll have 2 great papers on 🗳️ Voting & Elections 🗳️ from Pei-Hsun Hsieh (UPenn) and Graham Straus (UCLA)

🚨New working paper 🚨Why do some conservative white people support legalizing abortion and contraception access? We provide evidence across multiple studies that some conservative whites want to minimize the growth of the non-white population bit.ly/4mFYYXd🧵1/n

Tuning into the Super Bowl is one of the last shared cultural experiences in our divided country, Xochitl Gonzalez argues, but Bad Bunny’s halftime-show announcement has ignited another round in the culture wars over what “real America” should look like.

New rachel funk fordham report on the 15th anniversary of Citizens United. The evidence is now clear, in part thru Rachel's research, that CitUtd has increased the influence of billionaires reduced state democratic performance made state governments more rightwing increased corruption

I assigned a manuscript of mine in class (risky but fun) but I noticed some students sentences were suspiciously familiar…. Like y’all… I wrote it… I know when you’re copy pasting or using AI

oh fun, today i get to teach the executive branch and government funding fun pray for me lol

🎙️ NEW EP: Mike Madrid & Chuck Rocha debate the government shutdown fight, asking who benefits, who gets blamed, and what it means for upcoming elections. + Trump’s unprecedented meeting with military generals & the growing authoritarian tone in politics. youtu.be/FWwwXsq2GLI