I want to thank Michael K. Miller for a very detailed, comprehensive, and generous review of my "Opposing Power" book, alongside 2 others, published in the latest issue of Perspectives on Politics. His summary of my book is even better than my own! Open access! ♥️♥️♥️ cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Check out the recording of PS's Roundtable on Democratic Backsliding at APSA 2023! youtube.com/watch?v=qJwSCh… @anthlittle Anne Meng Carl Henrik Knutsen @dweitzel Daniel Treisman Yana Gorokhovskaia @StaffanILindber Rob Blair - robertblair.bsky.social Michael K. Miller

New article alert: How Authoritarian Governments Decide Who Emigrates: Evidence from East Germany bit.ly/48ffk3b with Michael K. Miller Julian Michel So excited to see this in print because it took so long to get here (thanks, covid)

Worth noting: Our new IO article is in Open Access, so it's free to read & report us to the secret police.

New to #firstview this week: UCLA Julian Michel, GW University Michael K. Miller, & UCLA @MIgrationNerd examine how autocracies decide who is allowed to emigrate, with new data from East Germany. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Someone needs to sit in on my Causal Inference class next semester.

This is an outright lie. Biden said that the foreign investors (Saudi Arabia, China, etc.) used to purchase Twitter should be looked at, not Musk himself. And several of these investigations date back to the Trump era.

Today PS: Political Science & Politics published a symposium with many great contributions to the "measuring democracy and implications for global backsliding debate." The symposium includes a shorter article version (open access) of the paper detailed in the long thread below.

This is a poor argument by James Fishback. Harris's book was published three years earlier than Pence's & sold more copies. More supply & more demand.

Ok, now do the Party's presidential nominee.

Most people seem to be missing the immediate point of Trump's exec order on birthright citizenship, which is to enable the deportation of everyone in an immigrant family *including children* & to ignore citizenship claims. If courts act, it will be w/ delay & it's already done.

I don’t always stay up to date (hey, I retired in 2020), but sometimes when I catch up, I’m amazed at what I read. This book is an absolute tour de force! Michael K. Miller is correct here: the book has made me think of democratization in a new way.

Trump: "A lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator."