Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 12/08/2026And nearly 70% would accept an anti-democratic coalition partner when it delivers a governing majority (vs 52% as minority status). Even in Norway, gatekeeping depends on the stakes. 170
Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 12/08/2026Are politicians gatekeepers of democracy? Will they reject candidates for party leadership or coalitions to protect it? We ran pre-registered experiments on 2,000 Norwegian politicians. They do gatekeep, but it’s conditional. osf.io/preprints/so... 23820
Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 09/04/202660 years after Kaufman’s The Forest Ranger, a defining study of how federal agencies build institutional identity, we see the near total destruction of the US Forest Service 110
Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 17/10/2025Do citizens want to address unfair burden-sharing in public goods? New research out in ISQ @isq-jrnl.bsky.social with @drewstommes.bsky.social addresses this question by highlighting the unequal socioeconomic costs of US wars academic.oup.com/isq/article/... 131
Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 28/08/2025For no particular reason, anyone interested in a model of bureaucratic resistance may find the following interesting! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #PolSci 020
Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 18/03/2025The EPA (like most Federal agencies) is facing alarming “institutional erosion”, maybe worse than the chaos of the 1980s. And this quote gets to the real point. This is not about policy differences. These are institutional changes that require acts by Congress #EPA #InstitutionalDisruption #Congress 110
Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 10/02/2025Government workers respond to disruptive leadership in three ways: 1️⃣ Resistance: Sticking to the agency’s mission 2️⃣ Temporary Reversals: A weakened commitment to mission, but agencies can recover 3️⃣ Erosion: Abandoning the mission entirely and missions may take years to recover 110
Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 10/02/2025Trump’s firing of key officials and the gutting of agencies is more than headlines—it’s reshaping American government capacity with long-term effects on political stability and policy. My @thejop.bsky.social article explores how “institutional disruption” impacts government performance over time 🧵 132
Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 06/12/2024Some thoughts on the future of American federal agencies and their capacity under the second Trump administration wp.me/p3I2YF-eAy 220