Single member legislative districts are just such a bad system, especially when parties are polarized (i.e., in any modern political system) Forthcoming APSR shows firms, not just voters, are gerrymandered into/out of districts for partisan gain link in reply (musk algo wack)

How often do final Congressional decisions on key votes reflect public opinion, and what does that tell us about Congress as a legislative institution? Our collective representation piece now has a home in Perspectives on Politics. (1/n)

𝘈 𝘖𝘯𝘦-𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯 Statistical Power

Excited to announce my paper, Measuring Strategic Positioning in Congressional Elections, is officially accepted and online Journal of Politics @[email protected] here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73… Quick thread on the paper below:

ICE has released a video of its raid on Hyundai–LG's Georgia battery plant site, showing Korean workers chained up and led away. South Korea's foreign ministry has confirmed over 300 of the 457 taken into custody are Korean nationals.

Delighted to discover that "Candidate Positions, Responsiveness, and Returns to Extremism" is now available online Journal of Politics @[email protected] 🧵 Gated: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73… Ungated: mellissameisels.com/files/MM_PCPC.…

Bookmarking to use in the classroom

One of the best antitrust papers now in the QJE: Nearly half of US federal judges attended a crash course in economics at the Manne Institute. This training had lasting effects: judges used more econ language, sided against regulators more often, and imposed harsher sentences.

I'm not at APSA, but my master's student/coauthor, Sangmyung, is presenting! Come see how ideological "incongruence" in the U.S. has changed in the last decade. Sat, Sep 13, 2-3:30pm local time.

SWERP is back for fall 2025! Under what international contexts are citizens more likely to support peace with a foreign adversary? Jungmin Han will present about how third-party interactions shape public opinion on rapprochement. Sep 26, 2025, 10am KST (= Sep 25 9pm ET)

서울대학교 정치외교학부에서 전임교원을 채용합니다. 미국정치 1명 및 미국 외교정책 1명입니다. 다음 링크를 참고 부탁드립니다. 감사합니다. social.snu.ac.kr공지사항/document/3727

The H-1B visa executive order just nuked university hiring. No university will hire a new faculty member from abroad if the fee is $100,000.

The latest issue of PA is out now. We have a great collection of papers from Yamil Ricardo Velez, Kirk Bansak, Yuki Atsusaka, Seo-young Silvia Kim, Matt Blackwell, Sophie Hill, Andrew Bertoli, chadhazlett, Melissa Rogers, Zening (“Ze”)Duan, Anqi Shao, Xining Liao, Kaiping Chen (@kaipingchen.bsky.social) (1/2)

Think lobbying and campaign contributions are the key to how companies navigate American politics? Wrong. Corporate policy teams are where the real action is! Our new paper offers the first ever systematic, quantitative study of corporate policy teams, based on LinkedIn data on

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality? Our paper, first view at Political Analysis, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, Lucid):

True. Neither Democrats nor Republicans grasp how needlessly difficult the current legal process is even for the supposedly simplest, uncontested case of spousal immigration. Once people learn it takes years and thousands of dollars, they’re far more open to easing the process.

Just published in PNAS (PNASNews) : “Electing amateur politicians reduces cross-party collaboration” We show that districts electing first-time members of the U.S. House experience substantial declines in bipartisan representation in the subsequent Congress. 🧵1/4

🚨 out at American Political Science Review 🚨 ➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation ➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India ➡️ Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months ➡️ Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms