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Dan Thompson @dthompson.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Private donors gave more than $350M to support election administration in 2020. Many critics argued that these grants swung the election from Trump to Biden. In a new paper, @apoorvalal.com and I find that these grants did not provide Democrats a noticeable advantage. bit.ly/lal_thompson...

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Jen Gaudette @jengaudette.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Guess I should post something here, so I’m linking my job market paper! I examine the effects of ideological polarization on local politics through the lens of police union endorsements. tinyurl.com/2s7kdpem

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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Partisan election administrators don’t tip the scales Electing a Democratic or Republican clerk doesn't change election results or turnout New #ScienceOfPolitics podcast / interview transcript with Daniel Thompson www.niskanencenter.org/partisan-ele...

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Partisan election administrators don't tip the scales - Niskanen Center

Electing a Democrat vs. a Republican as a county clerk does not affect subsequent election results or turnout.

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Will Marble @wpmarble.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

The white working class has steadily become part of the Republican base while whites w/ college degrees have become Democratic. In a new paper, I study the issue basis of this realignment, showing that both economic and cultural issues have contributed. williammarble.co/docs/EducPol...

Title page for the paper "What Explains Educational Polarization Among White Voters? by William Marble (September 2023). Abstract: Over the past 40 years of American politics, college-educated white voters have defected from the Republican Party, while the white working class has become a reliable source of Republican support. I study the issue basis of this realignment. To do so, I generate over-time estimates of public opinion on four broad issue domains from 1984 to 2020 and develop a theoretical framework to understand how issue attitudes translate into electoral coalitions. Using this framework, I find that both economic and cultural issues have contributed to the observed realignment. College-educated white voters have become increasingly liberal on economic issues since the mid-2000s; college-educated voters now express more liberal views than working class voters on every issue domain. Over the same time period, cultural issues have become more important for the
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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

It's publication day for "Research Design: Declaration, Diagnosis, and Redesign" from @PrincetonUPress! -- or more memorably, "the DeclareDesign book" illustrious coauthors: @graemeblair.bsky.social and Macartan Humphreys amazon: tinyurl.com/rdssddr free online: book.declaredesign.org Thread!

Cover of Research Design in the Social Sciences: Declaration, Diagnosis, and Redesign by Graeme Blair, Alexander Coppock, and Macartan Humphreys

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