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Regulating dark money is a key campaign finance issue post Citizen's United. With Ian Turner and (twitterless) Collin Schumock, here are 2 theory papers representing 2 different ideas about who donors hide from: Dark Money & Politician Learning and Dark Money & Voter Learning

🚨 NEW PAPERS 🚨 We develop models of dark money in elections to study how campaign finance disclosure rules affect voter learning (paper 1) and politician learning (paper 2). Keith Schnakenberg drops a thread below ⬇️

🚨🚨 AWARD SEASON🚨🚨 The Formal Theory Section of APSA gives out four awards annually. Deadline: March 1. Nominate your favorite papers here: forms.gle/J3rcc6Rb8X9obg…. Self nominations encouraged! Non-members: please consider joining! More info: apsanet.org/section52

Get your nominations in! Deadline: March 1. More info (including how to join the section) can be found here: apsanet.org/section52

🚨Virtual Formal Theory Workshop🚨 We're back! Today at 12:00pm EST. Don't miss it! Featuring Keith Schnakenberg (Keith Schnakenberg): "Anger and Political Conflict Dynamics" and Yasushi Asako: "Preventing Polarization by Observing Others’ Actions: Laboratory Experiments"

Awards deadline coming up! Get your nominations now!

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🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨 Keith Schnakenberg and I just posted a draft of our ARPS article "Theories of Special Interest Influence" (osf.io/preprints/soca…). In it we present the logic of exchange-based, informational, and subsidy-based models of political influence. 1/6

Updated draft of my paper with Carlo Prato "Institutional Foundations of the Power to Persuade" (osf.io/preprints/soca…) We think it's a much better version! As usual, read it, cite it, love it.. Read Carlo's original thread on the main points here: x.com/carloprato_/st…

APSA FORMAL THEORY SECTION AWARDS See picture below for information---get your nominations in by MARCH 1st (and please self-nominate!) Email nominations directly to committee.

Make sure to get your award nominations in by MARCH 1!

New Formal Political Theory Research paper with John Patty: "Strange Bedfellows: How the Need for Good Governance Shapes Budgetary Control of Bureaucracy": osf.io/preprints/osf/… Not gonna write a long thread, but as always read it, cite it, love it!

Applications for 2024 EITM at Emory College are open. NSF funded grad workshop for all subfields of political science. Applications due on 3/824. More info and application link here: EITM.emory.edu Formal Political Theory Research Political Methodology

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.

🚨 Revised draft of "Institutional Foundations of the Power to Persuade" with Carlo Prato 🚨 Highlights: Greater focus on core implications; Broader understandings of the model and clarity on robustness (AND MORE!) As always: read it, cite it, love it! osf.io/preprints/soca…

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