One of the really fun things I've been able to do since moving to USC Price School 7.5 years ago is bring together all the great scholars in the SoCal area who do Political Economy. The SoCal Political Institutions and Political Economy Working Group meets three times a year...

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Nico Napolio, Joe Loffredo, Cantay Çalışkan & @billresh

Excited to join the team! I’ll be writing about one post a month on American political institutions and current events.

Coming to MPSA 2025! I've organized a conference-within-a-conference on the separation of powers. We've got a great lineup of scholars working at the intersection of legislative and executive politics. I'm very grateful to the Declaration for American Democracy - for sponsoring the CwC!

My inaugural Good Authority post! goodauthority.org/news/trump-rea…

Congratulations to all the graduate students who presented work at #MPSA2025! We had an amazing showing from our department.

Next up on the schedule for our speaker series, Professor Sharece Thrower from Vanderbilt University! See the flyer for more details and don't forget to save the date. #PoliSci UCR CHASS UC Riverside

Final PIPE Collaborative Workshop earlier this week: Bill Resh presented some interesting work on AI and federal personnel management. Great comments by Nico Napolio.

We are hosting Professor Sharece Thrower today! Don't forget to check it out. See flyer for more details. UCR CHASS #polisci

Now out, JHPE 5(1): special issue on the Historical Political Economy of Race. Papers by Ellora Derenoncourt, Randall Walsh, @aspaglayan on bsky, Dr. Trevon D Logan, Nico Napolio, Thomas Gray & Jeff Jenkins. nowpublishers.com/HPE

Coming soon: JPIPE 6(2).

Really happy to share my paper "Executive Policymaking Coalitions, Veto Activation, and Collective Action Problems" has been conditionally accepted at the BJPS!

New in JPIPE: Nico Napolio scales executive agencies along a liberal–conservative dimension using ChatGPT, a large language model, to produce both static measures of executive agency ideology and dynamic measures spanning 1949–2020. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…