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Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.
So much of classic political science research is woefully underpowered.
I'm glad we're slowly coming to our senses.
WOW!!!!!!!
Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
Another great talk, this time from Nick Ottone @nottone.bsky.social at @priec.bsky.social on the impact of group based diversity on downstream sentencing decisions
(He’s on the market!! Look out, he’s on the way up!!)
the free press trying to make a scandal out of reading robert dahl is very funny (shoutout to dahl, one of the best to ever do it)
A New York City political ad on a TV screen. On the screen are three people split across with the text “City Council: Keep Grocery Delivery Affordable. Protect Grocery Delivery Work.” Appearing in front of them. Below in smaller text says “Paid for by Instacart”
An interesting example of “outside lobbying” in the wild!
A black-haired puppy staring at the camera with puppy eyes and sitting on a tan blanket on a tan armchair surrounded by a watermelon squeak you and a long pink squeak toy with various mess behind her
A new pup!
Let he who has not sought friendlier data cast the first stone
Excited to see this column with Limor Peer published in Harvard Data Science Review! Also very mystified by the (seemingly AI-generated) thumbnail!
hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/suy0nbh5...
Original thought alert! Very strange how this same party attacked Michelle Obama’s healthy school lunches and Bloomberg’s Big Gulp ban as “nanny state” intrusions on their precious liberties. Would read a book on this evolution.
This is high art
For this very reason, I really don't think it's a coincidence that mass deregulation has been ordered by a big-time government contractor, who would have a LOT of contact with regulators. Why we should be normatively concerned about government contractors' lobbying and influence!
So excited that this study is finally published!
We focus on the methods that organizations use to mobilize *existing supporters* of abortion rights to move them from passive to active supporters
Turns out messaging targeted to them does not work... but it doesn't alienate people either 🤨
One thing I'm really proud of here is the data we brought to bear on the extremely common campaign topic of targeted messaging: qualitative interviews, an online field experiment, two survey experiments, and a meta-analysis. Thankful for my two co-authors and for all the feedback along the way!
So excited that this study is finally published!
We focus on the methods that organizations use to mobilize *existing supporters* of abortion rights to move them from passive to active supporters
Turns out messaging targeted to them does not work... but it doesn't alienate people either 🤨
"Electoral Turnover and Government Efficiency: Evidence from Federal Procurement" by Kyuwon Lee. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
The federal government spends a lot on contracts with outside organizations — most of it in places where DOGE isn't cutting.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges.
This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.
You are right that we should be looking outside the US for understanding but I’d also say probably some of the work on authoritarianism in the US are relevant. A non-Cambridge book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
68% yes, 32% no; 58% Prop 1A, 42% Prop 1B
Social housing funding appears poised to pass by a wide margin in Seattle. The Prop 1A version to enact an excise tax on employers with highly compensated employees is leading with 58% of the vote.
Me researching and reporting: Haha!! Fuck yeah! Yes!!
Me writing: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
BJPolS abstract from a scholarly article discussing the impact of interpersonal conversations on political views and demographic cooperation.
#OpenAccess from our new issue -
Shared Demographic Characteristics Do Not Reliably Facilitate Persuasion in Interpersonal Conversations: Evidence from Eight Experiments - cup.org/4getJPI
- @dbroockman.bsky.social, @jkalla.bsky.social, @nottone.bsky.social, Erik Santoro & @amandaweiss.bsky.social
My baby sister is a UCLA undergrad and I'm sending texts every six hours like "ARE YOU STILL OKAY DO YOU HAVE A GO-BAG???"
Anyhow re-upping mutual aid resources in the greater Los Angeles area: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Here’s the Substack write-up if you’re interested:
open.substack.com/pub/somegood...
When Twitter was still useful, I’d post a year-end list of art I had enjoyed. Here’s my list for 2024:
Abbott Elementary
Just for Us (Edelman)
Anora
Decameron
His Three Daughters
Get on Your Knees (Novak)
Merrily We Roll Along
Oh, so we have to keep doing this forever (Petri)
Outsiders
Sing Sing
Constrained market, little competition, excessive complexity, uninterrogatable pricing, no government subject matter experts, a one-way ratchet on pricing...it's all a recipe for adding an extra zero to the price tag of every big project.
Three very dusty bound packages of CA voter records from the 1980s
Research: fun?
