@andycarr
he/him | 🏳️🌈 nerd | mid selfies studying US law & politics: LPE, bureaucracy, reactionary movements | union stuff @ The New School, roaming adjunct elsewhere opinions mine, mostly bad site: andyjcarr.com SSRN: https://ssrn.com/author=3069305
Interesting: The D.C. Court of Appeals that ruled that the city's ban on gun magazines that can hold more than 10 bullets is unconstitutional. A majority of the three-judge panel said the magazines are common and used for self defense, and there's no history of such blanket bans.
If you're interested in learning about the history of American-Soviet agricultural exchange during the interwar decades, join Dr. Fedorova and I on March 24th from 11am to 12:30pm via Zoom. RSVP here: fresnostate.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...
LaTeX sort of, but far less than explicit instruction or anything like that. more of an implied “if you want to be a serious methodologist, you should probably learn that…on your own time/outside of class.” (pol sci at Penn State c. 2010-12, for reference, so that may be wildly outdated now.)
Persephone the Himalayan cat stares at a table with one eye open looking a lil tired
Happy Wednesday
Persephone: an icon for our times
"very nearly under threat"
like the exam I'm supposed to give my students tomorrow, which is "very nearly done" and "very nearly coherently written," right right right, totally.
they've found a way to soundproof fabric.
(but, y'know, just...ignore the open beams above the curtains.)
"I think responses [that ask only for the Administration to 'explain itself'] are pathetic. This isn’t a mystery that needs to be solved. This is not the case of the missing casus belli."
feeling an (extremely uncommon!!) urge to defend the MTA's honor 😠😤
“I believe the lawless fascists who are killing American citizens in broad daylight can bring peace to the Middle East by bombing children’s schools without congressional approval.”
That’s what you sound like.
every mystery of the sloppy joe revealed! i debunk its connection to ernest hemingway! we discuss the loosemeat sandwiches of iowa! the fashion movement around "sloppy joe" sweaters ca. 1940! the french concept of "nostalgia for the mud"! buttondown.com/theswordandt...
At the John Jay-URPE conference, listening to Kendall Stephenson’s extremely interesting presentation on Colorado’s metropolitan districts - in effect, private local governments for real estate developers.
Annual Review of Political Science Participatory Democracy and Its Limits Kevin J. Elliott Program on Ethics, Politics and Economics and Department of Political Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; email: k.elliott@yale.edu
Annu. Rev. Political Sci. 2026. 29:17.1–17.19 The Annual Review of Political Science is online at polisci.annualreviews.org https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-032724- 125408 Copyright © 2026 by the author(s). All rights reserved Keywords participation, participatory democracy, deliberative democracy, lottocracy, political attention, representation Abstract This review surveys the limits of participatory democracy and reconsiders its merits, with particular emphasis on the limited attention of citizens. I trace the development of participatory democracy within political science and democratic theory and suggest that participation has fallen out of its previously central role as a criterion of democratic quality. What remains is a set of functions and pitfalls, which I explore in a series of inquiries into participation: (a) in lottocracy and electoral democracy, (b) in its relationship to representation, and (c) in local land use planning. I conclude with thoughts for future research informed by the discussion.
Forthcoming from me in the Annual Review of Political Science: "Participatory Democracy and Its Limits."
Download a complete preprint here: kevinjelliott.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
I was at first like “wow, what a great discount” … UNTIL. 🥴
(they’re all great, really. and it isn’t helpful that the afternoon class is in one of the Deeply Cursèd Rooms that’s always at or above 80°, like yeah, I would also like to nap through this, I assure you. 🫠🫠🫠)
yesterday Conde's biggest cover story of 2025 (I think it's safe to say) got nominated for an ASME: a cover story about a trans woman, produced by a team that i helped guide as a trans person. and in the 11 months since it came out, they got rid of almost all of us
Conde Nast just sold them.us to the parent company of Out, The Advocate, etc. so there goes like 95% of the trans staffers at the company (after they got rid of 2 of us in November <33)
morning class: everyone has something to say at all times. (an 8:30am!!! incredible, speechless.)
afternoon class: everyone has discovered there are exactly two students among them who will answer a question to evade uncomfortable silence and rely on that; pulling teeth.
✨the duality of teaching✨
We should never forget that these "studies" programs -- Women and Gender; African Diaspora; Latinx; Asian and Pacific -- emerged from the demands of politicized students, and that therefore administrators _as a class_ have always resented them and their successes.
When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast.
They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...
This is the not-so-hidden secret of our university. Just *one* history survey section I teach generates 3x my salary for the university. And I can teach 9 classes a year!
fyi the Columbia student newspaper has far more details on the ICE raid on a Columbia residence hall (including the likely name of the student in question) than any of the journalists y'all are reposting who aren't on campus. 🙂 support student journalism!
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yeah, I think that's my whole struggle with articulating a response. really cannot fathom being so reckless in _that specific way_, y'know, particularly given the current state of affairs in the US, yeah. 😒
just...at a loss for how to respond other than to say I'm profoundly sorry. just unconscionable.
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