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Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 2d

Just published at PNAS (@pnas.org): “Electing amateur politicians reduces cross-party collaboration”

We show that districts electing first-time members of the U.S. House experience substantial declines in bipartisan representation in the subsequent Congress.

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 3d

I’m from outside Schenectady originally and would get some of those wrong. Especially Skaneateles.

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 3d

Great! Thanks for all this!

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 3d

You might be right on Mirya. Top journals can take even longer with harder and multiple rounds of revisions.

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks. If I am remembering correctly, the data included items like time to do revisions, multiple rejections etc.

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks. Mostly thinking about journal articles. I wasn't even thinking about time from acceptance to in press. That can take forever!

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations!

Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 3d

Someone on the other site used to post a figure keeping track of journal submissions, time to decision, etc of their own work. Does anyone recall who that was? I'd like to show students how long it takes to publish something.

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 3d

The Republicans aren't helping themselves any here. The House only holding pro-forma sessions is particularly bad.

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 4d

It's like an undergrad trying to hit the five page mark came up with the defaults for MS Word.

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 4d

One week until we kick off the 22nd Rothbaum Lecture Series! If you can't join us in person, you can watch online here: youtube.com/@cacarchives...

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Punchbowl News @punchbowlnews.bsky.social · 8d

The shutdown is just the start.

Appropriations fights will only get harder — with House & Senate GOP divided on topline numbers, Dems demanding talks and billions separating defense & health funding.
punchbowl.news/article/hous...

The approps battles won’t get easier after the shutdown

Getting out of the shutdown will be hard. Funding the government for next year isn’t going to get any easier after that.

punchbowl.news

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 9d

When the Hope Scholarship covered more it was hard to beat the price. My wife was valedictorian at a large ATL school and went to UGA. I'm thankful she didn't have any student loans.

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 9d

OU is hiring in Public Administration. Feel free to reach out to me with questions. Looking at the Assistant or Associate level. Job ad here: apply.interfolio.com/174095

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 9d

More or less yes.

Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 9d

Which one of you did this?

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 10d

Jane Goodall passed away today. Here is a letter from she wrote to Rep. Glenn English from our congressional archive.

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 10d

My kiddo says "I'm cold and there are wolves after me" but has no idea why, lol.

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Alex Garlick @garlicksauce.bsky.social · 10d

For public policy scholars: JPIPE published our article that uses machine learning to code the universe of congressional and state legislative data since 2009 by the Comparative Agenda Project policy codes. That's 1.68 million bills. OPEN-ACCESS here: www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 10d

This would be good for deficit hawks since the status quo is usually less spending.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 10d

Government shutdowns are dumb. The way funding works is a policy choice, not inherent to the Constitution. Congress could pass a law today that automatically authorizes spending in perpetuity at the levels of the most recent appropriations bill. This is how other countries do it!

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 11d

This is cool but needs a fat finger margin of error.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11d

Inspired by a Perry Bacon post, I created a little game to see how well you understand the presidential electorate.

Digging deep on the presidential electorate

After every federal election, Pew Research Center conducts an incredibly useful bit of polling: asking Americans what they did on Election Day and validating that those who reported voting were actual...

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 11d

The mower only gets out of jail for yard time.

a drawing of a person playing drums with the words ba dum tsss

ALT: a drawing of a person playing drums with the words ba dum tsss

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 11d

The campus robot mower now lives in a cage instead of being free. I wonder if the cage is to keep the mower in or people out.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 13d

My book is now available for pre-order with Cambridge University Press (cup.org/4nfM2IM). Here, I reflected on America's acceleration of reliance on Medicare Advantage and the new traditional Medicare prior auth administrered with AI, through the lens of my findings
open.substack.com/pub/miranday...

The American Exceptionalism of Health Insurance Barriers

My forthcoming book Coverage Denied just became available for pre-order, and proofing and now promoting this work has given me an opportunity to reflect on contemporary health policy developments thro...

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