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Anna Gunderson

@annagunderson.bsky.social
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Associate prof UT Austin, LBJ School and champion lurker; working on the politics of criminal justice 🇨🇦🇨🇦 annagunderson.com

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Consortium on the American Political Economy (CAPE) @cape-team.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Live Soon: The Second day of the #APE conference, today at noon ET! Register (yale.zoom.us/meeting/regi...) to join today's events 👇
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/05/2026
David Venturella, who spent more than a decade as an executive at the private-prison behemoth GEO Group, will be the next acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. GEO Group's biggest client? ICE.
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Trump taps former private prison exec to run ICE
GEO Group's biggest client is ICE—and ICE's new leader helped run GEO Group.
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 22/04/2026
#OpenAccess from the Journal of Law and Courts - The Prosecutor Paradox: Understanding the Public?s Low Knowledge About Chief Local Prosecutors - cup.org/4dVw70v - @jktboston.bsky.social, @annagunderson.bsky.social, @davidryanmiller.com & @kirstenwidner.bsky.social #FirstView
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Anna Gunderson @annagunderson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
New paper @ Journal of Law & Courts with great coauthors on the accountability gap for local prosecutors: (1) the public knows little about prosecutors, (2) knowing less decreases prosecutor approval, but (3) most prosecutors are reelected time and again. Open access below!!
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The Prosecutor Paradox: Understanding the Public’s Low Knowledge About Chief Local Prosecutors | Journal of Law and Courts | Cambridge Core
The Prosecutor Paradox: Understanding the Public’s Low Knowledge About Chief Local Prosecutors
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Anna Gunderson @annagunderson.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
New article with @mgmacdonald.bsky.social on the use of police social media around the 2020 policing protests in @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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Anna Gunderson @annagunderson.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Hot off the presses @polbehavior.bsky.social with stellar coauthors: "Gender Stereotypes Across Electoral Contexts" asks whether and how candidates use feminine + masculine stereotypes differently across office type. More here: 👇
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Gender Stereotypes across Electoral Contexts - Political Behavior
We examine how the office a candidate seeks influences their use of feminine stereotypes in campaign messaging, focusing on the interplay between government branches (legislative and executive) and ju...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy
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Anna Gunderson @annagunderson.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Attention #polisky! Apply for @utaustin.bsky.social LBJ School of Public Affairs with a focus on American Political Institutions. I'm on the committee, so please reach out with questions. See below: apply.interfolio.com/170943
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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
From May 2025 - Gendered Expectations: Do Voters Reward Women for Supporting Women’s Interests? - cup.org/3YTHTQJ - Nichole M. Bauer, @annagunderson.bsky.social, @jeonghyunkim.bsky.social, @elizabethlane.bsky.social, Belinda Davis & @kesearles.bsky.social #OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract discussing the impact of gender expectations on voter behavior towards legislators regarding women's issues, including abortion and equal pay. The document is displayed in a green box with white text.
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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
NEW - Gendered Expectations: Do Voters Reward Women for Supporting Women’s Interests? - cup.org/3YTHTQJ - Nichole M. Bauer, @annagunderson.bsky.social, @jeonghyunkim.bsky.social, @elizabethlane.bsky.social, Belinda Davis & @kesearles.bsky.social #OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract discussing the impact of gender expectations on voter behavior towards legislators regarding women's issues, including abortion and equal pay. The document is displayed in a green box with white text.
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Anna Gunderson @annagunderson.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
New article hot off the presses from American Politics Research - "State Courts, Public Opinion, and the Changing Abortion Landscape after Dobbs" with a stellar group of coauthors. See more below 👇
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. cbsn.ws/4clubLP
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Trump administration deports gay makeup artist to prison in El Salvador
A gay man with no known criminal record sought asylum in the U.S. He's since become one of 238 Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
1/ I wonder if there's a complement to Mettler's _Submerged State_ thesis: the successful state thesis. In brief: American government has *in many ways* been so successful for so long that Americans have forgotten why they need it, making anti-government rhetoric more appealing.
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Patti Zettler @pzettler.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This is absolutely devastating for public health, for scientific integrity, for innovation, for all Americans. I can't string together more coherent thoughts - just absolutely devastating.
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
#HHS isn't being transparent about the cuts occurring within the department or its agencies such as #CDC, #NIH, #FDA. If you've received a RIF notice today, @statnews.com wants to know. www.statnews.com/2025/03/27/h...
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Are you affected by the HHS cuts and restructuring?
HHS is set to cut 10,000 jobs and consolidate divisions — have you been affected? @statnews would like to hear from you.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 04/03/2025
“Prosecuting people for migration is big business.” Our top story: Over the past four years, the Texas Legislature has allocated more than $11 billion to fund the sprawling tentacles of the Operation Lone Star.
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Abbott’s Border Disaster Has Created a No-Bid Bonanza for Private Contractors
There is now a powerful, well-heeled constituency that has built up around Operation Lone Star.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
New, from me @theatlantic.com: *No, the federal government is not too big *It has real human capital needs *Firings are indiscriminate, weakening state capacity *Creating a toxic and politicized workplace is driving away dedicated employees www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The DOGE Project Will Backfire
Trump’s war on public employees is bad for all of us.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Damon Hininger, CEO of private prison giant Core Civic, just told investors: " I've worked at CoreCivic for 32 years, and this is truly one of the most exciting periods in my career ... we're anticipating .. the most significant growth in our company's history." theintercept.com/2025/02/11/c...
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Private Prison CEO on Trump Deportation Surge: “One of the Most Exciting Periods in My Career”
CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger could barely contain his excitement about the Laken Riley Act and Trump’s anti-immigration executive orders.
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Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D. @estebanjq.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
What can you do about the assault on USAID? Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
USAID What’s Happening & Why it Matters
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Very hard to imagine any social science that would not be flagged by NSF's new censorship regime
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This is illegal. These are crimes!
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 08/01/2025
These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️
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In California, Incarcerated Teenagers Help Fight Wildfires
"You’re put in danger every time you’re on the fire line.”
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Anna Gunderson @annagunderson.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Hot off the presses @igajournal.bsky.social with @kirstenwidner.bsky.social and @mgmacdonald.bsky.social! We look at inside + outside lobbying strategies of social media groups on Facebook and Twitter. Check it out here 👇 link.springer.com/10.1057/s413...
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Lobbying in public: interest group activity on social media - Interest Groups & Advocacy
Social media has transformed political communication by making it easy to post and free to disseminate information. Interest groups can use social media platforms to direct messages to policymakers an...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
“The nearly 1,500 individuals who received commutations today have been serving their sentences at home for at least one year under the COVID-era CARES Act.” This is an action that people have been pushing for since before Biden took office, and it’s very good to see.
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FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces Clemency for Nearly 1,500 Americans | The White House
Today’s announcement will commute the sentences of close to 1,500 individuals who were placed on home confinement and will pardon 39 individuals convicted
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Anna Gunderson @annagunderson.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Interested in how litigants + amicus have (and will) respond to Trump SCOTUS justices? See our new book! Open access! 🎉🎉🎉
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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This Trump-linked private prison stock has soared since the election, adding over $2 billion to its market cap. So it goes, so it goes.
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Dr. Susan Liebell @drsusanliebell.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Fabulous research on SCOTUS by @annagunderson.bsky.social and @kirstenwidner.bsky.social The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021. They joined me on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast! newbooksnetwork.com/kirsten-widn... #PoliSky #LawSky 💙📚
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Kirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson, "The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021" (Cambridge UP, 2024) - New Books Network
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Anna Gunderson @annagunderson.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
I just donated to Pizza to the Polls to help keep Democracy Delicious this year - you should too! #democracyisdelicious polls.pizza/donate
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Pizza to the Polls is making democracy delicious by delivering free food for all to polling places with long lines. Send us reports of long lines and we'll send in the delicious reinforcements.
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Dr. Susan Liebell @drsusanliebell.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Pre-election podcast on @kirstenwidner.bsky.social and @annagunderson.bsky.social's 🔥 new book The Haves and Have-Nots in SCOTUS Representation & Participation, 2016 to 2021. The new justices have affected WHO brings cases. #History #PoliSky #gendersky #LawSky 💙📚 newbooksnetwork.com/kirsten-widn...
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There has been a lot of commentary from scholars and journalists as to the meaning of Donald Trump’s three appointments to the United States Supreme Court – with regards to changes in jurisprudence, increased separation of the Court from political processes that legitimate it. Drs. Kirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson have done something a little different using tools from political science.
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Anna Gunderson @annagunderson.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
The presidential election is days away. What are the consequences of the election for who chooses to appear before SCOTUS? @kirstenwidner.bsky.social and I's new book digs into this question. We are on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chatting about it! megaphone.link/NBNK6866203115
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Kirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson, "The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021" (Cambridge UP, 2024) by New Books in Political Science
An interview with Kirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson
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Anna Gunderson @annagunderson.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
We are hiring at The LBJ School at UT Austin in Democratic Development, Backsliding & Capacity Building at Assistant or Associate level! Deadline 10/1. Come for tacos + a top-notch policy school. I'm on the committee, so reach out with questions. Interfolio: apply.interfolio.com/151706
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Anna Gunderson @annagunderson.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
Really excited our paper on judicial campaign appeals and gender is out at @thejop.bsky.social! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Candidate Gender, Campaign Appeals, and Voter Support in Judicial Elections | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
Racial capitalism: a ‘former’ plantation turned into maximum security prison in which prisoners are compelled to perform barely-waged labor that produces value for some of the world’s biggest companies. Unfortunately, there’s nothing “unlikely” about it. apnews.com/article/pris...
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Anna Gunderson @annagunderson.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
In personal + professional news, I will be starting as an associate professor of public affairs at the LBJ School at UT Austin in the fall! I’m sad to leave colleagues at LSU but excited for the new opportunity (and the tacos 🌮🌮🌮!)
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Anna Gunderson @annagunderson.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
Our @thejop.bsky.social paper won an award for the best paper published in that journal this year! 🎉🎉
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Anna Gunderson @annagunderson.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Polisky! Reposting this as the deadline is fast approaching for the judicial politics job at LSU…
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Anna Gunderson @annagunderson.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
LSU has a judicial politics position, deadline 11/20! Please apply and spread the word: lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0240... polisky
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Yann Kerevel @ykerevel.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
LSU is hiring in Judicial Politics! Deadline is November 20. lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo... polisky
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Christina L. Boyd @theclboyd.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
🎉 Today is finally the release date for our new book Supreme Bias: Gender and Race in U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings (@stanfordpress; w/ Paul Collins & @Lring86)! While I love the book’s cover, I’m also very excited for you to see what is inside. Here’s a preview 🧵: 1/
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Anna Gunderson @annagunderson.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
*taps microphone* hello bluesky! excited to share a new draft of a paper w @mgmacdonald.bsky.social on police use of Facebook during the 2020 policing protests tldr; racial demographics do not predict posting, but partisanship does. little evidence that protests spur conversations about reform
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
New data collection opportunity! The Civic Health and Institutions Project, a 50 State Survey, has opportunities available to collect free state-level or large national sample public opinion data. More information is available here: chip50.org
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