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Daniel A. N. Goldstein

@daniel-a-n-goldstein.com
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Assistant Prof/postdoc at UiO. Prior: Max Weber at EUI and PhD at Yale. Political economy, climbing, etc. daniel-a-n-goldstein.com

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Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 12/08/2026
Lots more in the working paper with Kaja Sparre Bakke, @sirianned.bsky.social, and @torewig.bsky.social. Please check it out! doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 12/08/2026
And 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.
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Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 12/08/2026
Politicians penalize anti-democratic candidates for party leadership. But the penalty is no larger than for ordinary misconduct like expense fraud or harassment. Democracy is a negative trait among others, but not a definite red line.
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Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 12/08/2026
Are 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...
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Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 09/04/2026
www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...
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Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 09/04/2026
60 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
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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
📢 New Article 👥 Daniel Alexander Novick Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com (ISV) & Drew Stommes 👉 Who Should Fight? Experimental Evidence on Policy Corrections to the Unequal Costs of US Wars 📗 Open Access in International Studies Quarterly 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/isq/...
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Who Should Fight? Experimental Evidence on Policy Corrections to the Unequal Costs of US Wars
Abstract. The physical costs of war—who fights and experiences casualties—are borne unequally in the USA. However, little is known about how informing indi
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Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 17/10/2025
This research has been a long time coming, and we would like to acknowledge the support of several people who have helped throughout the process, including Alex Coppock, Greg Huber, Ebonya Washington, Jonathan Caverley, and Kyle Peyton, among many others
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Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 17/10/2025
Using formal theory, a survey experiment, & text analysis, we find: • People prefer “direct corrections” - policies that address the disparity itself • “Indirect corrections” that compensate burdened groups get less support • Fairness matters more than social identity in shaping preferences
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Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 17/10/2025
Do 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/...
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Mikael Persson @professormpersson.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
The 5th Nordic Political Behavior Workshop in Trondheim! @lchristensen.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social @finseraas.bsky.social et al!
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Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 28/08/2025
For no particular reason, anyone interested in a model of bureaucratic resistance may find the following interesting! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #PolSci
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Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 18/03/2025
This is the article by Lisa Friedman, whose reporting I have draw on extensively in my work on the EPA and institutional disruption
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Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm
More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development.
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Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 18/03/2025
The 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
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 11/03/2025
"If someone legally in the United States can be grabbed from his home for engaging in constitutionally protected political activity, we are in a drastically different country from the one we inhabited before," writes our columnist Michelle Goldberg.
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Opinion | This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare
Mahmoud Khalil’s detention is a frightening sign of an authoritarian slide.
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Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 10/02/2025
Reach out if you’d like to chat about the long-term implications! jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/reversals-of...
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Reversals of Capacity: Norms, Culture, and Institutional Disruption - The JOP´s Political Science Blog
The public sector must hold the capacity to effectively address pressing concerns such as climate change and environmental degradation. In the United States, this role is primarily fulfilled by the fe...
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Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 10/02/2025
With unprecedented firings and resignations, remaining staff may pander toward disruptive leadership—further weakening agency capacity and complicating the recruitment of skilled talent. I’ve expanded on these ideas on the @lseblogs.bsky.social , @broadstreetblog.bsky.social, and in the article
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Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 10/02/2025
When an agency’s internal culture fractures, bureaucrats may stop pursuing core missions—altering policy outcomes and even their commitment to remain in government wp.me/p3I2YF-eAy
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What the second Trump administration may mean for federal agencies and their capacity to deliver
The US government employs more than two million civilian personnel through its Cabinet departments and executive agencies. In new research, Daniel A. N. Goldstein looks at what Donald Trump’s retur…
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Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 10/02/2025
During the first Trump administration, I observed mostly resistance and temporary reversals. But recent news suggests that the current administration might be pushing agencies toward full erosion—jeopardizing their ability to deliver legislated mandates #polisci #econ
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Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 10/02/2025
Government 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
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Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 10/02/2025
Trump’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 🧵
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Peter Wyckoff @peterwyckoff.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The @lsegovernment.bsky.social / STICERD political science & political economy WiP seminar resumes tomorrow with @dang11.bsky.social, and an exciting line up for the Winter Term
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Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 06/12/2024
Some thoughts on the future of American federal agencies and their capacity under the second Trump administration wp.me/p3I2YF-eAy
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