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Chris Tausanovitch @ctausanovitch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

New paper with @johnmmurph.bsky.social just conditionally accepted at @apsrjournal.bsky.social: Can people guess how majorities of each party in Congress voted on bills? Mostly yes. Can they guess how their own representatives voted on bills, above what is accounted for by party? Mostly no. 🧵

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Stan Veuger @stanveuger.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Here is a new NBER Working Paper by @jeffreypclemens.bsky.social, @phoxie.bsky.social, and me on the effects of federal pandemic aid to school districts: www.nber.org/papers/w35447.

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Edward Headington @edwardheadington.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

CGU #TuesdayTalks recently hosted #UCLA PhD candidate #GrahamStraus on “How Does Income Affect Voting Behavior?“ Full recording with research findings here: vimeo.com/1165816442. #politicalscience #elections #voting #Claremont #CGU @jpayson.bsky.social @claremontgraduateu.bsky.social

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Political Science Research and Methods @psrm.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

💰Do voters punish local politicians for raising taxes? ➡ Using close local ballot votes in California, J Courbe & @jpayson.bsky.social find little backlash after tax hikes, except for business taxes, where organized interests mobilize www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

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Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 13/01/2026

lol, I don't have @jpayson.bsky.social's book handy, but I wonder if it touches on this potentiality (a city hiring a former governor and pardoned felon as a lobbyist).

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Pritzker: Blago hire reflects on Homer Glen - Capitol City Now

Pritzker is not done trying to hold down insurance premiums; he also says the state and the Bears have talked infrastructure.

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 08/01/2026

#OpenAccess from @psrm.bsky.social - Local taxes and economic voting: evidence from city ballot measures - cup.org/45D7FMb - Jacques Courbe & @jpayson.bsky.social #FirstView

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Danielle Thomsen @daniellethomsen.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Big thanks to @mattgrossmann.bsky.social for the invitation to discuss my new book!

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Julia Payson @jpayson.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Did incumbent politicians benefit from the influx of federal spending during the pandemic? We use an IV strategy to show that incumbents performed better in places that received more aid due to their overrepresentation in Congress. @stanveuger.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Julia Payson @jpayson.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Hey #PoliSci folks and @apsa.bsky.social attendees! As placement director, I'm excited to let you know about some of our excellent UCLA job candidates on the market this year. Please take a look and share widley. #psjminfo

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Ariel R. White @arielrwhite.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

MIT Political Science is hiring this fall, with junior lines in both American Politics (members.apsanet.org/CAREERS/eJob...) and IR. Please share widely!

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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Thrilled to share my new publication @epsrjournal.bsky.social! When we think of lobbying, we often picture big businesses or NGOs. But regional governments lobby, too! But what makes govts-as-lobbyists successful? I study intergovt lobbying success based on a multi-year data collection effort

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NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics @csmapnyu.org · 21/04/2025

Congrats to the authors @andreucasas.bsky.social, @oms279.bsky.social, @jpayson.bsky.social, @jatucker.bsky.social, Richard Bonneau, & Jonathan Nagler. The paper, which is accepted for publication at @thejop.bsky.social, is available here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Julia Payson @jpayson.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

State Politics and Policy Quarterly is celebrating 25 years! Check out the call for proposals for this special issue dedicated to the impact of state politics research in political science and how the field has evolved over the past decades. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Call for Proposals - 25th Anniversary of SPPQ

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

🚨News flash🚨 In a late-breaking development, UCLA political science has successfully cut a deal with Cesar Vargas Nuñez, who will be joining our roster in ‘26. This guy has it all: sharp intellect, highly productive, and an all around great human being. Big win for our department & university.

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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991. Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens. As of this morning, it’s gone.

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Justin de Benedictis-Kessner @jdbk.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Are Democratic leaders making cities more dangerous than Republicans? Trump + others have repeatedly made claims like this. New paper in Science Advances w/ @chriswarshaw.bsky.social, Dan Jones & Matt Harvey shows that, in short, the answer is no.

Abstract of article titled "The partisanship of mayors has no detectable effect on police spending, police employment, crime, or arrests"

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 15/01/2025

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

To celebrate the publication of our HANDBOOK OF COMPARATIVE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS and our awesome contributors, I’m kicking off a pre-holiday challenge: every day, I’ll share a short intro to one of its chapters. This is also an opportunity to connect with new colleagues, so please feel free to 📌!

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Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 18/11/2024

Some time ago and spurred on by an email from @mullinmeg.bsky.social, I recreated a bunch of local government maps that the Census Bureau once created but no longer does. They live on my website. I hope they're helpful to someone (I regularly steal them for presentations).

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Map Gallery | Christopher B. Goodman

Christopher B Goodman is an associate professor at Northern Illinois University, researching special districts & preemption and teaching public finance.

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Amanda Weiss @amandaweiss.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

@nottone.bsky.social and I have made a starter pack of Junior Quant Americanists! If you want to understand American politics and policy through research by cutting-edge (mostly ABD/postdoc) researchers, then this is the list for you. Let us know who we are missing! go.bsky.app/KKmVtH6

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Dan Hopkins @dhopkins1776.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

How did different racial/ethnic groups move over the course of the campaign? Here is data from our two-wave NORC panel showing that Harris increased support over Biden among Black, Hispanic & white citizens between late winter & fall 2024.

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Junior Americanist Workshop Series @jawspolisci.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

@elizabethelder.bsky.social will present her paper, "Responsiveness to Corruption: Evidence from U.S. Local Governments," with discussant comments by @jpayson.bsky.social (please contact her for a copy)

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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

This collaborative mapping project is amazing data viz -- my favorite part is how they how the "data" (the polygons drawn by each respondent) and the "summary" (what most ppl call a neighborhood) together. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Manhattan screengrab from https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/29/upshot/new-york-neighborhood-guide.html

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Julia Payson @jpayson.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Now out in QJPS: we find locally set minimum wages are responsive to public preferences but overshoot them and are too high in many places. But, minimum wages in states with preemption are too low. For details of our city-level minimum wage estimates, check out www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...

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Alice Xu @alicexu.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Excited that this project (JMP!) is now FirstView @APSR! doi.org/10.1017/S000... I show that segregation encourages the privatization of urban services. Conversely, integrated cities produce intergroup externalities that align the middle class w/ the poor in coalitions for public goods 🧵

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Julia Payson @jpayson.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Does decentralizing policymaking lead to a closer match between minimum wages and local preferences? Gabor Simonovits and I find evidence of "leap frogging" -- check out the October issue of QJPS: www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...

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now publishers - Locally Controlled Minimum Wages Leapfrog Public Preferences

Publishers of Foundations and Trends, making research accessible

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Julia Payson @jpayson.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

@profmusgrave.bsky.social -- can you please add me to the Polisky list? Thanks!

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Junior Americanist Workshop Series @jawspolisci.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Join us today for our first session of the academic year! Polisky

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Talbot Andrews @talbotmandrews.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Come be my colleague, polisky! We're hiring an assistant professor in state and local politics here at UConn. I'm on the committee and happy to answer questions about the department: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49...

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Steve Rogers @steverogersinfo.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Need a podcast to listen to while doing chores this weekend? @leedrutman.bsky.social, @juliaazari.bsky.social, & I had a great conversation about Accountability in State Legislatures. Learn more about state legislative elections while vacuuming the house (and senate)! shorturl.at/bdtFR #polisky

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Are state legislators really accountable to their voters? — Politics In Question

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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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