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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

For anyone going to ASN today, there is a book panel for Workplace Politics with a great cast of discussants and me at 3:20. www.asnconvention.com/panel-r4a

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ASN 2026 World Convention | Panel R4

Book Panel on Timothy Frye's Workplace Politics: How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections (Oxford, 2025)

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CAWP @cawp-ru.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

NEW from CAWP: the Gender & Politics Research Hub is live: cawp.rutgers.edu/research-ana...

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Vladimir Zabolotskiy @zabolotskiy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

2+ years in the making, and our paper “Fear, soft propaganda, and the demand for government intervention” is finally out in the European Economic Review 🎉 Thanks to @nikitaz.bsky.social, @timfrye.bsky.social, Koen Schoors and Katya Borisova for being amazing coauthors 🔻Old thread + new link below

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Center for Political Studies @umisrcps.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

What to read before #MPSA2026? CPS's @lowande.bsky.social and Cesi Cruz will participate in authors-meet-critics sessions on "How Congress Confronts Presidential Power" and "How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections." @timfrye.bsky.social, @szakonyi.bsky.social, @uofmpress.bsky.social

Thursday, April 23, 9:50 to 11:20 CDT
Authors Meet Critics: Workplace Politics:

How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections by Timothy Frye, Ora John Reuter, and David Szakonyi
Cesi Cruz, Participant at #MPSA2026 from Center for Political Studies

Friday, April 24, 11:40 to 1:10 CDT
Authors Meet Critics for Strategic Responsiveness:

How Congress Confronts Presidential Power by Scott Ainsworth, Brian Harward, and Kenneth Moffett
Kenny Lowande, Participant

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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Soon the city will descend into anarchy.

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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Now I know that the blizzard is an emergency. Door dash has suspended services.

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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

maybe these two stories could have been one story. NYT with a not so subtle choice of article placement.

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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Looking forward to taking part in this event at noon today at Harriman to launch the new issue of our magazine. Virtual access still available. I also include a link below to my article. harriman.columbia.edu/event/democr... harriman.columbia.edu/reflections-...

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Democracy in Crisis: A Harriman Magazine Panel

Please join magazine authors Timothy Frye and Thomas Kent and editor-in-chief Ann Cooper for a panel discussion of soft power and democracy promotion in the region – its history and what happens now t...

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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...

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Opinion | A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Not how the rule of law works. Precisely the opposite, in fact.

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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Amount of time network evening newscasts devoted to reporting on today’s protests and general strike in MN (not including coverage ICE actions or their attempts to spin) ABC: 45 seconds NBC: 20 seconds CBS: 15 seconds PBS: 2 minutes, 20 seconds

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Page Fortna @pagefortna.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Lovely to see the outpouring of love for Kimuli, whose presence is so very missed. I’m adding here the “in memoriam” colleagues wrote for the department (a bit more personal than the one from the university!) polisci.columbia.edu/content/memo...

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In Memoriam: Kimuli Kasara | Political Science

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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Thanks for posting. Looks interesting and will read with interest. Glad to see academic posts like this on Bluesky.

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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

This pretty damning. Hard to see how faculty will take his leadership seriously.

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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Five years since the January 6th insurrection and a reminder that in the moment many Republicans and Trump voters were appalled, but many also were not.

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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

If kidnapping a country’s leader doesn’t count as an act of war, then what does?

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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I've been down on the WP for a while now and this Editorial Board piece is exactly why. The argument is shallower than a kiddie pool. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | Justice in Venezuela

The next challenge is setting the country up for long-term success.

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…” Read that again.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Texas Universities are now like police departments who would prefer to pay out the inevitable lawsuits rather than stop breaking the law

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C.H. Romatowski @romatowski.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

You’d really be forgiven if you had a hard time conceiving of a success on this scale. “So I’ve got this idea for an environmental and public health project, we’re gonna reduce pollution by a fifth. No no it doesn’t cost anything. Actually it’s gonna net half a billion dollars.” What!

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.

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Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office

Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Did you know that the US hasn’t had an ambassador in Moscow in 6 months? Or that our chief envoy to Russia won’t take briefings from the CIA? But wait, there’s more. Much more in this 6-byline WSJ piece on the Witkoff-Putin axis. Free link www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

Today, those structures are virtually absent. America has had no ambassador in Moscow since June. There is no assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Witkoff has declined multiple offers from the CIA for a briefing on Russia. The State Department assigned a small group of staffers to support Witkoff, but members of that team, and others across the administration, have struggled to get summaries of Witkoff's foreign meetings. Longtime allies in

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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

edition.cnn.com/2022/04/12/u... The Kremlin Kids, Russian Hypocrisy is well known and won’t change. The West is bad, but not that bad………….’ Peskov – reportedly made $173,000 in 2020

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Kremlin-connected children grew up in the very countries whose societies their parents claim to reject | CNN

Russian leaders denounce the West while their children live affluent lifestyles abroad. Meet the kids of the Kremlin.

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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Such a shortsighted decision at a moment of international turbulence. These centers are needed now more than ever.

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Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

College costs are soaring! www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...

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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Come work with us. A two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Ukrainian Studies and another for an open position at the Harriman Institute. Deadline January 5. harriman.columbia.edu/postdoctoral...

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Postdoctoral Scholars

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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Hard agree with Kotkin here www.foreignaffairs.com/china/weakne... and if you want more detail on the Russia case, See my book, Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia www.amazon.com/Weak-Strongm...

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The Weakness of the Strongmen

Not long ago in the sweep of history, countries that had once been buried behind the Iron Curtain, and even some Soviet republics, were transformed into members of the solidly democratic club. Some of...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Longer thread on relevant research: bsky.app/profile/prof...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Not that you really need it in this case, but research says no. Political appointee diplomats underperform career diplomats onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The growing bureaucratic performance literature focuses on differences in programs or agencies led by either careerists or political appointees; yet this literature still struggles to measure and then compare performance across agencies. This article examines ambassadorial performance to provide new measures of individual- and organization-level performance. Using a new data set of embassy inspection reports by the State Department's inspector general, I find that the traditional dichotomy of careerists versus appointees explains some performance differences even as some key individual-level characteristics that are expected to affect performance are not influential. These findings have important implications for presidents and agencies in their approaches to leadership selection and performance evaluation.

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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

A ray of hope on an otherwise bleak weekend.

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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

We recently published a special issue societal resilience in Ukraine with a focus on local and regional governance. Take a look. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpsa20/4...

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Post-Soviet Affairs

The local and regional dimension of Ukraine’s resilience during Russia’s full-scale invasion. Volume 41, Issue 5 of Post-Soviet Affairs

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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The world is a less interesting place with the passing of Kimuli Kasara. She was brilliant, funny, and caring. And was loved by many. She was a great friend and confidante. We will all miss her terribly. Rest in peace. fas.columbia.edu/news/memoria...

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In Memoriam: Professor Kimuli Kasara | Arts & Sciences

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

wild that this happened within 24 hours of bolsanaro going to prison. will be a timeless textbook example of what works to save a democracy and what doesn’t

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