Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Denny Hastert buttons, which uhh read a little differently now, from my collection. 000
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm not sure exactly what's being referred to, but I think it's hard to look at top-two in practice and see anything like the salutary effects she claims. 010
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If you think, with E.E. Schattschneider, that "modern democracy is unthinkable save in terms of the parties," then those questions will strike you as rather less clever than you seem to imagine. As it seems you do not, I shall not try in this forum to persuade you. 000
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I talked to @gintautasd.bsky.social about why I, like almost all of us who study political parties, think top-two electoral systems are a bad idea. And stay for a little Mass. politics inside baseball: www.wbur.org/news/2026/09...wbur.orgMass. mayoral elections use all-party primaries. So what do mayors think of Question 3?Question 3 supporters have pulled in a growing number of mayors who’ve witnessed top-two elections up close. But not everyone agrees that the system would translate well to state elections. 262
Reposted by Daniel SchlozmanMarc Aidinoff @maidino.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I am strangely optimistic that AI offers a framework to build the state we want. I argue in @dissentmag.bsky.social that progressives must not dismiss the energy and opportunity produced by technology’s productive amnesia to reimagine the state and society. dissentmagazine.org/article/ai-u...dissentmagazine.orgCan the Welfare State Survive AI? - Dissent MagazineThe U.S. welfare state was built in moments when technical innovation collided with political reality. It can still offer the infrastructure for social protection under an economy reconfigured by AI. 085
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026A friend sent me this program from a Democratic rally in 1960 and it’s perfect: Joe Glazer, Nat’s brother, the labor folksinger; a cantor; and Pat Robertson’s father the virulently anti-civil rights Senator. What a party! 041
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026It'll never happen, but there's a very strong case to ban merit aid, so glad to see this take: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Why Are Colleges Giving Financial Aid to Rich Kids?We can do better than this. We have to. 132
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This was DNC Kremlinology more than the DS or the D-Trip, but the decline of in-house staff capacity and the outsourcing of basic tasks like doing fundraising is really important. Hollowness all the way down: www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...nybooks.comThe DNC Against Itself | Daniel Schlozman“Democracy is a very old institution,” explains the Democratic National Committee’s autopsy of the 2024 election, belatedly released in May. “And yet what 082
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Somewhere, Helen Gahagan Douglas is laughing at the idea of a Senator Nixon who's pink right down to her underwear. 020
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026If Flanagan and Crowley win, a good night for both Native Americans and Thanksgiving. 030
Reposted by Daniel SchlozmanJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026If you’ve never recalled a book from yourself, are you even an academic? 1536628
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026This from @cgmaisano.bsky.social (and riffing my work, full disclosure) was illuminating: dissentmagazine.org/article/part...dissentmagazine.orgPartyism Without the Party - Dissent MagazineZohran Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties. 0146
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I think we have very different understandings about what a national party should aspire to be, and let's leave it right there. 220
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The ballot access issues were, to my mind, quite phony. 100
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 21/07/20261 and 2 are the results of presidential domination over the party system, which, as I have written, the party should push against as bad for capital and small-d democrats. 010
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026What I wrote was all about those things and mentions Gaza only in a litany about the autopsy, but go on. 220
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026An excellent idea, and a better next step than Medicare at 55 or "Medicare for all who want it." 033
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026If you want an essay about the DNC than Pangram doesn't think was written by AI, check out what I wrote: www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...nybooks.comThe DNC Against Itself | Daniel Schlozman“Democracy is a very old institution,” explains the Democratic National Committee’s autopsy of the 2024 election, belatedly released in May. “And yet what 030
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I’ve been on the metro/tram systems in 91 cities and want Wuppertal (as part of NRW) as 100. 010
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I wrote about the DNC. www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...nybooks.comThe DNC Against Itself | Daniel Schlozman“Democracy is a very old institution,” explains the Democratic National Committee’s autopsy of the 2024 election, belatedly released in May. “And yet what 096
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Under those circumstances, shouldn't we try to change what we can control? I am a member of the AAUP. I take it you are not? 000
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 17/07/2026That seems both correct as far as it goes and--this is what a political scientist should understand--woefully limited as far as the problem of bad-faith critics putting point X at the center of the agenda as opposed to lots of other things. 100
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 17/07/2026In a general way: all the critiques about consumer-driven higher ed and too much sports, low standards outside arts and sciences and in most of the new civic thought initiatives, ill-informed boards meddling in faculty affairs, and censoring views on Israel-Palestine. 010
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Put a little more pointedly, I was more impressed with Mnookin and Roth than with your boss in this back-and-forth. Do you disagree? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...nytimes.comOpinion | ‘We Lost Our Mission’: Three University Leaders on the Future of Higher EdThe view from Dartmouth, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Wesleyan. 100
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026If a university president wanted to attack rot of the kind that left-wingers with high standards get mad about alongside what got covered in the Vanderbilt report, I'd be sympathetic. But so far, that cell is empty. 110
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I may have used the term too loosely. Anyway, if the actual question is Democrats’ priority in 2029, no reason to do what polls say, but if you want to use polling data, better be sure it speaks to the issue at hand. 000
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026To me, and I think we’re hitting on normative turf here, both about what’s worth maximizing and what parties+groups owe to voters, if the stakes are priority against other things, eg welfare state, under unified control in 2029, then that’s what should be tested and foregrounded. 100
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026That trade-off is exactly the point. And if GOP is so bad for climate, then maybe climate hushing makes some sense. More generally, my model has always been Bill Wilson’s arguments for universalism, where you don’t dwell too much on the precise beneficiaries lest it promote backlash. 100
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Which is not precisely the same point as but closely related to what Sam and I have been saying: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Democrats Should Try Being an Actual Political Party AgainDemocrats need to stop being the party of wonks — and that’s no easy feat. 010
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026And if you want to talk about two things, then why is the naive reading that climate shouldn’t be on the list wrong? 110
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Right, but the climate pieces that actually lower costs rather than those that hide the ball. 110
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026But doesn’t the paper suggest focusing on lowering costs and health care more than climate? And within climate on cost-reducing pieces like permitting reform? 210
Reposted by Daniel SchlozmanJoel Wertheimer @wertwhile.bsky.social · 16/07/2026People should read this post by @charlotteeffect.bsky.social on the giant money sucking sound coming out of the Platner campaign. Fight (spending through LC), Moraff, and Helix are really efficient at getting money out of a campaign. cauldronllc.substack.com/p/how-did-th...cauldronllc.substack.comHow did the Platner campaign spend their money?mostly on ads and consulting. so much ads and consulting. 58737
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I feel like (and this is the Schlozenfeld perspective versus a Polsby-esque perspective) that definition gets so capacious as to be unhelpful. 220
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026This looks like a good, fair plan with a convention that can work its will and find a strong nominee. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/08/p...bangordailynews.comMaine Democrats want a 600-person convention to pick Graham Platner’s replacementThe proposal would mark the first time Maine Democrats have used a convention of this scale to replace a statewide nominee. 041
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Everybody has claimed--sometimes convincingly, sometimes not--to have the Democratic Party's best interests at heart in this mess. But for Platner to behave like this right now is pure selfish hostage-taking. And good on the state party ED to speak up on the party's behalf. 080
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026We're getting close to "This argument has been made by Tom Edsall for well more than half a century" territory. 2282
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026A convention would be a much better, and dare I say, fairer process than either letting Platner pass the factional baton or deciding that it's time for a different faction to have its turn. Very midcentury reform liberal in a good way. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/07/p...bangordailynews.comMaine Democrats work ‘around the clock’ on process to replace Graham Platner“The eyes of the nation are on us,” Maine Democrats’ executive director Devon Murphy-Anderson said in a letter to state committee party members Tuesday. 23810
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Favorite Maine political button from my collection, for the governor who donated the land for Baxter State Park (Mount Katahdin). 020