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Political science professor at UPenn, studying migration and forced displacement, human trafficking, and poor governance. Co-director of the Penn Development Research Initiative (PDRI-DevLab). Website: https://guygrossman.com .. more

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 22d

Rob Blair (@robertblair.bsky.social), Anna Wilke (@awilke.bsky.social), and I have a new draft of our paper "Can Community Policing Improve Police-Community Relations in a Low-Income Country Setting?"

Comments are welcome:
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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 1h

Michael - thanks a million from many of us across campus for choosing to continue fighting the good fight!

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 1h

punditary is a form of expertise.

Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 2h

not at all premature to make this bold assertion.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 5h

That too, Stefanie. But I still maintain that the prestige that comes from being called a professor and being revered by society for devoting one's life to research plays a role.

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Motivation in academic life: A prestige economy

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 5h

I think about this a bit differently. People seek specific careers for a combination of $$ and prestige. Acaemia was able to get some of the best minds, precisely because of warm glow. Once prestige is reduced we are more likely to lose the best minds to the private sector, which can outpay academia

Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 5h

I don't disagree, Maya, but isn't prestige the currency of academia above all?

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 5h

Maria Corina Machado did not send troops to repress citizens, order assistantion with no trial of alleged drug traffickes, bomb Iran, nor demand the justice department prosecute her opponets on trumped up allegations -- so how on earth did dhe get the Noble Peace Prize?

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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 9h

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 17h

The two sides knowing how desperate Trump was to have the ceasefire announced before the Noble , must have extracted ridiculous promises from him which will be made known to us only in the coming months.

Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Netanyahu just clarified that Marwan Barghouti -- convicted in planning an attack that killed 5 Israelis -- is not going to be released.

This is unfortunate. While releasing those with blood on their hand is a difficult decision, who doesn't have blood on their hand at this point on either side?

Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Arguably, the single most consequential prisoner Israel could release is Marwan Barghouti, who is best positioned to unite the different factions and succeed the irrelevant Mahmoud Abbas.

Israel has yet to confirm whether he is going to be released.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 1d

I am not a political strategist, but if I were the democrats, I'd keep pumping all day, "What are they hiding about Trump's health?"

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

The signs are becoming more obvious.

Trump to Get Second ‘Yearly’ Health Screening in Months — TIME

When the President visits Walter Reed on Friday, he’ll do a “routine” annual check-up, the White House said—despite the fact he just did one in April.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

The signs are becoming more obvious.

Trump to Get Second ‘Yearly’ Health Screening in Months — TIME

When the President visits Walter Reed on Friday, he’ll do a “routine” annual check-up, the White House said—despite the fact he just did one in April.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone in Israel understands that Trump forced this ceasefire deal on Netanyahu after the botched attack in Doha. I doubt his coalition can last long. There will be elections in the next six months, I predict, and Netanyahu will lose.

Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Money

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it | Omid Djalili

The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress. Art, especially comedy, can be part of that, says stand-up comedian, Omid Djalili.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it | Omid Djalili

The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress. Art, especially comedy, can be part of that, says stand-up comedian, Omid Djalili.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 1d

We may be close to the end of the war in Gaza, which is excellent news.

Also - dear journalists: this is not a peace agreement, it's a shaky ceasefire deal.

Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Him too. AOC too. He is not the only one.

Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 2d

Pritzker is one of the only Democratic leaders who is not pretending this is a regular/normal administration.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 3d

Today is Oct 7th, marking two years since Hamas's horrific terror attack. I'm keeping today in my mind all those who have perished on that day, and beyond.

May the Gaza war end as soon as possible. May the hostages return safely, and may both people find a way to live in peaceful coexistence.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for the shout-out, Alexia.

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Alexia Katsanidou @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social · 3d

Great paper on the state of political science osf.io/preprints/os... by @guygrossman.bsky.social et. al. We have become more diverse, more quantitative, and more collaborative.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks, Chaim!

Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely. Nothing we saw in the past 9-10 months suggests these people will allow a free and fair playing field in Nov 26.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 3d

at this point you have to acknowledge that there is no way that these guys don't try to mess with the 2026 midterms. there is absolutely no respect for the legitimacy of the opposition

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 3d

Stephen Miller: "Eventually elections don’t carry the day because violence beats votes… When we see a muscular response from the federal government, it’s because we’re not going to let violence beat votes."

Is he implying federal intervention determines political legitimacy, not ballots or courts?

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 3d

@carotorreblanca.bsky.social , Will Dinneen, and my paper entitled "Political Science Under Pressure: Competition and Collaboration in a Growing Discipline, 2003-2023" has been (conditionally) accepted at @poppublicsphere.bsky.social.

This paper has been a labor of love. osf.io/preprints/os...

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 3d

at this point you have to acknowledge that there is no way that these guys don't try to mess with the 2026 midterms. there is absolutely no respect for the legitimacy of the opposition

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 3d

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 4d

Again - the government is shut down, and it's somehow not news. I invite you to scroll down the NYT and Wao landing pages this morning.

Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 6d

Beyond astounding that the government is shut down, and you would not know that if you logged into the @nytimes.com and scrolled down its landing page.
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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 4d

I agree with Tom - we live in an electoral authoritarian regime. It has some fascist elements (e.g., disappearing migrants; masked agents detaining individuals without warrants), but the Trump regime is not (at least, yet) in a full fascist mode.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 4d

Bit of escapism:

Becky Hammon should be a head coach in the NBA.