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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We have a book cover! Starting to feel more real. press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-...

Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Page proofs are here. It is real. Excited to be part of a great series with @uofmpress.bsky.social. press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-...

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Santa has a weird sense of humor… Also, check out this wonderful edited volume. Now available for your Spring courses! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

London at Christmas time was a delight. Until next time!

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The Old Vic last night. Royal Opera House today.

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

How many flat whites can I drink in five days🤔

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

How your email finds me during the end of the semester

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The last time I taught the American politics field seminary I started off with a week on how to write a research paper. There's a copy below. Tom Carsey wrote a book with his advice about gradaute school, research, etc. before he passed: politicalscience-old.sites.unc.edu/2020/09/toms...

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I keep getting this targeted ad and cannot decide if it is friendly or threatening

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Rain. Cappuccino. Book Edits.

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

It’s research poster time for the students in my graduate seminar.

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

All jokes aside, this is a great example of Daniel Hopkins' point that nationalization is driven, in part, by people being more engaged with national rather than local politics.

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I know we wrote that all politics are national, but this seems a step too far. www.espn.com/college-foot...

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Fuel to finish editing this conference paper. I hope.

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Picked the toddler up and told him we were going to get ice cream. He proceeded to chant, “Ice cream! Ice cream! Ice cream!” for the rest of the car ride.

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

My Dad was an avid gardener. I did not inherit his talent, but I finally got blooms on his canna lilies.

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

It’s always good to see @ryandane.bsky.social featured in The Onion

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Escaping the horrors of the day with some coffee and light reading

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I found the building where they keep the computer on campus

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

19th century senators had better insults than today's senators. He might as well have said, "bless your heart."

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Sometimes I get fun mail at work Congrats again to Tony and Michael! Happy to have played a small part in this project.

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

We started that at a young age! (But cartoons still won out)

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

You were literally party of my wedding

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

For all the book lovers I know, go check out one of my wife's many upcoming book events. She's pretty dope.

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Google Scholar alerts don't alway make me chuckle, but this one sure did. Well played with that title.

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

A fun bonus, the paper appears in PRQ alongside an article by a friend from high school (Phil Chen, U of Denver)

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Happy (official) publication day to one of my favorite projects ever! tldr: Congressional votes on early federal infrastructure policy was influenced by partisan, distributive, and racial considerations

The National Road was an early, but failed, attempt by the United States Congress to build an interstate highway. The Road, which extended through the newly formed western states, led to fierce debate over two interconnected issues. First, should Congress authorize additional routes that would expand the Road beyond its original western route? Second, should the Road remain under federal control or should it be given to the states through which it ran? I find that partisanship was the most consistent predictor of a legislator’s position on these questions. In addition to partisanship, legislators from districts with a larger slave population were also more likely to oppose the Road. Distributive politics also informed representative’s behavior ad those whose districts were more proximate to the Road were more of these projects. In sum, an examination of the politics of the National Road helps to shed light on the interconnection of partisanship, slavery, and distributive politics in early America and its implications for early American political development.

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

APSA was a delight. Great to see old friends, meet new people, and see fantastic research. But now there’s a toddler who needs to meet his new moose friend.

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Came to watch a presentation and it came with a book plug. Well played, @mjnelson.bsky.social. Well played!

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Excited to present my project on public evaluations of credit claiming with @moriahjharman.bsky.social on our panel--Public Evaluations of Political Elites-- today at 12:30. Lots of great papers. Should be a good one!