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Dr. Philip J. Howe

@drphilipjhowe.bsky.social
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Professor & Chair of Political Science & Fulbright Program Adviser, Adrian College; frmr Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) & Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Reskeet≠agree.

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Dr. Philip J. Howe @drphilipjhowe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Attending this year's first meeting of the @ces-europe.bsky.social Historical Study of States and Regimes research lab. Markus Kreuzer, @janvogler.bsky.social, and @amelahmed.bsky.social comparing Comparative Historical Analysis with Historical Political Economy, @jeffkopstein.bsky.social chair!!
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The rise & fall of the Voting Rights Act, from the triumph of its passage in 1965 to its evisceration by SCOTUS in their 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder. An American Problem by @michaelgmiller.bsky.social & @kevintmorris.bsky.social is out now (1 Dec UK pub). Learn more: buff.ly/WLpTQOc
An American Problem: How the Country Built—and the Supreme Court Broke—the Voting Rights Act by Michael G. Miller and Kevin T. Morris
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Tim Allinger @timallinger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Great opportunity: this is a fantastic team, and Dan is an outstanding mentor and researcher. If you have any questions about what it's like to work with Dan, I'm always happy to chat!
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 06/10/2026
Know your legal rights before heading to the polls on Election Day. Alexis Nwatu outlines the 3 key rights to know before voting in person. 1️⃣ In line when polls close? Stay in line. 2️⃣ Machine failure? Ask for paper. 3️⃣ Name not listed? Request a provisional ballot. Need help? Call 1-866-OUR-VOTE
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026
When you compare how much right-wing funding is going into their version of the humanities in higher ed ("civil discourse," "civic thought," "intellectual freedom") vs how little public or private funding there is for peer-reviewed humanities scholarship & teaching, it really makes you think.
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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 🆕 by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
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Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Polarization is not the problem. "...the people who are the most “polarized” in the U.S. electorate are those who -are- racist and sexist, and those who -oppose- racists and sexists."
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TCMFanatics @tcmfans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Remembering Groucho Marx, born on this day, 1890.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'Now everything is safe and nothing is funded. The labs are clean and the researchers are desperate. The fume hoods work perfectly and no one can afford to use them.'
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Dr. Philip J. Howe @drphilipjhowe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am quite proud of it myself.
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Dr. Philip J. Howe @drphilipjhowe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My first time seeing physical copies!!! @lindakunos.bsky.social @ceudeminst.bsky.social @ces-europe.bsky.social
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The best exposition of a perspective I share - people continue to underrate the way diminishing returns are likely to prevent Singularity-style takeoff in RSI, especially on short timelines. www.noahpinion.blog/p/wheres-the...
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Where’s the “intelligence explosion”?
Ramez Naam gives a skeptic’s take on Recursive Self-Improvement.
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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
#PoliCartoon: The Absent Fatso #FatAcceptance #Fatphobia There's a link to a blogpost and a transcript in replies.
This site doesn't give enough space in alt text to describe this fourteen-panel cartoon about how media likes to make fun of fat people without showing fat people. But there's a transcript and description at https://www.patreon.com/posts/absent-fatso-104872810. I'll also post that link in replies.This site doesn't give enough space in alt text to describe this fourteen-panel cartoon about how media likes to make fun of fat people without showing fat people. But there's a transcript and description at https://www.patreon.com/posts/absent-fatso-104872810. I'll also post that link in replies.This site doesn't give enough space in alt text to describe this fourteen-panel cartoon about how media likes to make fun of fat people without showing fat people. But there's a transcript and description at https://www.patreon.com/posts/absent-fatso-104872810. I'll also post that link in replies.
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Dr. Philip J. Howe @drphilipjhowe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 20/02/2025
Democratic Multiplicity eds. James Tully, Keith Cherry, Fonna Forman, Jeanne Morefield, Joshua Nichols, Pablo Ouziel, David Owen & Oliver Schmidtke Discloses the radical diversity of the field of democracy that is overlooked by mainstream political science. cup.org/41nRRvi
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Democratic Multiplicity
Cambridge Core - Political Theory - Democratic Multiplicity
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Breaking: Supreme Court, over the Dissent of at Least the Three Democratic Appointed Justices, Allows States to Use Unreliable SAVE Database to Bulk Check Voter Citizenship Information (Now Updated with Analysis) electionlawblog.org/2026/breakin...
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Breaking: Supreme Court, over the Dissent of at Least the Three Democratic Appointed Justices, Allows States to Use Unreliable SAVE Database to Bulk Check Voter Citizenship Information (Now Updated wi...
You can find the opinion and dissent here. The Supreme Court, with at least the three liberal Justices dissenting, has allowed states to do queries to the federal “SAVE” database that contains informa...
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Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
📢 Monday Seminar Series! Join Dr @matthiasdilling.bsky.social, Prof @gizemarikan.bsky.social, and Dr @aslicerencinar.bsky.social for a presentation of current research. 📅 Monday, 28 September 2026 🕐 1–2:30pm 📍 TRiSS Seminar Room, Arts Building All are welcome! #PoliticalScience #Research
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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We are hiring at LMU Munich: two PhD positions and one postdoc on democracy, political psychology and computational social science. Start: January 2027 or as soon as possible. We review applications on a rolling basis until October 20. Details below. Reposts very welcome! 1/7
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/09/2026
Alpabzug! Swiss mountain alpaca herding – in pictures
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Alpabzug! Swiss mountain alpaca herding – in pictures
Each autumn the traditional alpabzug (descent of herds) sees farmers in Switzerland move their livestock from mountain pastures down to valley barns. In the Griesalp area above Kiental around 70 alpacas were herded down the valley, before being transported by truck to their winter farm at Aeschi, near Spiez, in the Bernese Oberland
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
South Texas dummymander anyone?
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Matthias Dilling @matthiasdilling.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The CDU at only 5.5% in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Its worst result in the party's history. Merz is expected to speak later today. I honestly can't see how he can stay on.
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Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And, of course, excluding non-citizens from the census would harm the whole country and break the law. The latest from @lmillerkaralunas.bsky.social: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
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Dr. Philip J. Howe @drphilipjhowe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Texas Professor Suspended for 16 Months Without Recourse share.google/nf4PNrjzfS4u...
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Texas Professor Suspended for 16 Months Without Recourse
Clyde Barrow and his lawyer have repeatedly asked for updates and details on his case and have been met with silence and redirects at all levels.
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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Congratulations to Prof. Melisaa Bokovoy, the president-elect of ASEEES. aseees.org/people/melis...
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Melissa K. Bokovoy  | Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies
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Jan P. Vogler @janvogler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I would like to invite you to VWHPE’s inaugural session of the 2026–2027 academic year on Sep. 17, 2026 (12:30 PM ET). The session will feature a presentation by @alexandermlee.bsky.social and @jackpaine.bsky.social on “Colonial Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship.” Sign-up link right below. 👇
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Dr. Philip J. Howe @drphilipjhowe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Discussing @jeffkopstein.bsky.social and Hanson with my Reforming U.S. Democracy students today; alas, even more relevant than when it came out. The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future share.google/7HujxoyNT2GO...
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Armin Schaefer @arminschaefer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
After Saxony-Anhalt, next Sunday's regional vote in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania could be even more devastating for the Christian Democrats. If current trends continue, the SPD may end up in first place, ahead of the AfD. The Greens and BSW are struggling to clear the electoral threshold, but...
The graph shows how the various parties have been polling in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania since the last regional election. While the SPD has seen a surge in the polls over the last month, the CDU has been steadily losing support.
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Manifesto Project @manifestoproj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
📣 It's update time! The Manifesto Project Dataset 2026a & Manifesto Corpus 2026-1 are here! What's new? 🧵:
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The making and remaking of #Bukovina, a disputed Eastern European borderland, from the eighteenth century to the present day. Bukovina: The Life and Death of an East European Borderland by Cristina Florea is now available (10 Feb UK pub) Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #History
Bukovina: The Life and Death of an East European Borderland by Cristina Florea
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/09/2026
One giant step: first known T rex footprints found in North Dakota
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One giant step: first known T rex footprints found in North Dakota
The 23ft-long trackway, consisting of four three-toed footprints, two left and two right, date from 66.5m years ago The first known series of footprints from an adult Tyrannosaurus rex has been found in North Dakota by a team of scientists. The 23ft-long trackway – consisting of four three-toed footprints, two left and two right – was first identified in the south-west of the state, in the dinosaur fossil area known as Hell Creek Formation, last year by researchers from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Colorado and Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. Continue reading...
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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
ASEEES is delighted to host the 2026 Film Series at the Annual Convention in Chicago aseees.org/convention/2... #ASEEES26
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Dr. Philip J. Howe @drphilipjhowe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I think you should recuse yourself from the interview.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is just bonkers. The CNN poll of Michigan finds that 60% of noncollege voters say Trump's tariffs on Canada are bad for the state, and 57% of noncollege whites say the same. Working class roundly rejecting Trump's tariffs is narrative-exploding stuff.
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David Glenn @actsinds.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I wasn't sure I wanted to read another essay about the PMC wars, but the last two paragraphs here are bracing as hell.
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The Party of Baristas - Dissent Magazine
Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny shows that the labor organizing of the radicalized PMC is far more than a fit of whimsical proletarian roleplay.
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Representation @repjournal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Are citizens' views on democracy really just inconsistent or is there a hidden logic? Hannah Werner proposes a model of citizens' process preferences: normative values, context-based evaluation, and outcome-driven judgment #Representation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
fortunately there was no acceptance speech required
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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Chaos and authoritarianism at UT Austin. Faculty have just days to show how their courses meet vague requirements of breadth and foundationalism. Proposals will be reviewed by an unspecified entity. No guarantee at all that those who review the proposals have expertise in the field.
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Dr. Philip J. Howe @drphilipjhowe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just ordered it a couple days ago!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/09/2026
Technology being everywhere doesn’t mean it belongs everywhere. The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but necessary. We don't see it that way. This week, we announced a moratorium on generative AI for public school students in 2-K to 8th grade.
We’re eliminating AI use for students in 2-K through 8th grade for the upcoming school year.
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IWM Vienna @iwm.at · 03/09/2026
Tomorrow evening, historian Michael David-Fox, the IWM’s incoming fourth rector, will open the Month of Ideas with his inaugural lecture on the crisis of the humanities and social sciences. Join us via livestream: www.youtube.com/live/t53Pv69...
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Dr. Philip J. Howe @drphilipjhowe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thanks!
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Thanks!
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Dr. Philip J. Howe @drphilipjhowe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
At long last!! In print and open access!! www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
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Governing Divided Societies
The authors of this volume challenge conventional notions about Habsburg and Czechoslovak politics, arguing that they were more democratic than they often appear. They use the consociational model of ...
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Red State Universities: we believe in indoctrination and job training Students: we hate that is there another option? Blue State Universities: we promise to have no values except job training. It ain’t enough. My latest. Gift link.
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Perry: Republicans fought ‘indoctrination.’ Now they’re telling students what to study.
The conservative attack on higher education in states like Iowa is hard to watch. But it also provides an opportunity for blue states like Minnesota.
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Dr. Philip J. Howe @drphilipjhowe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Awesome work!
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are delighted that The Backsliders by Susan Stokes has been named the Loyola Marymount University Global Policy Institute's Book of the Year! 🎉 This important work examines why democracy is under assault across the globe by the leaders entrusted to preserve it. Learn more: buff.ly/VC3t0Wt
The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies by Susan C. StokesSusan C. Stokes
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Dr. Philip J. Howe @drphilipjhowe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Today I start teaching this excellent book once again in my Reforming U.S. Democracy class. @sltaylor.bsky.social, @laderafrutal.bsky.social, Lijphart, and Grofman, where's the second edition? @yalepress.bsky.social A Different Democracy share.google/lpYL95lSLUKy...
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A Different Democracy
American democracy differs greatly from other democracies around the world. But is the American way more or less efficacious than comparable democracies in A...
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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Michael Lewis’ new book ‘Blockers’, coming out 10/6, is about the early days of DOGE and the civil servants who stood in their way. This should be a fascinating read: www.rizzolibookstore.com/product/bloc...
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