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Yale ISPS @ispsyale.bsky.social · 20h

The Center for Civic Thought invites the Yale community to a guest seminar with Nicholas Buccola on his book "One Man's Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle Over an American Ideal." Friday from 12:30 to 2 PM at ISPS, 77 Prospect, Room A001. Register to attend: bit.ly/48fHlKp

Book cover featuring Martin Luther King Jr. and Barry Goldwater, with text: One Man's Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle Over an American Ideal -- Nicolas Buccola, Author of The Fire Is Upon Us

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Hannah Walker @hlw.bsky.social · 2d

Made possible by support from @arnoldventures.bsky.social @publicagenda.bsky.social & @ispsyale.bsky.social

The #ExpandingEngagementLab is stoked to build on this to learn how engage other chronic non-voters!

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Emma Zang @dremmazang.bsky.social · 8d

New in American Journal of Epidemiology! doi.org/10.1093/aje/...

Validate User

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Seulki Lee-Geiller @leegeiller.bsky.social · 9d

🎉 Just out in Policy and Internet!

Is AI in policymaking a fix or a threat?

This study, supported by @ispsyale.bsky.social, suggests AI's democratic legitimacy depends on how it is explained and integrated with public voice.

🔗Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Policy & Internet | PSO Journal | Wiley Online Library

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into policymaking raises pressing questions about whether it can reconcile technocratic efficiency with democratic legitimacy. While existing literatur...

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Yale ISPS @ispsyale.bsky.social · 12d

Who counts as a "radical?" Which movements could be considered a "backlash?" How does AI affect the way we consume news? Enjoy our chat with sociologist Daniel Karell about the future of political discourse. bit.ly/42fZaVP

Daniel Karell stands outside the sociology building in New Haven

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Yale ISPS @ispsyale.bsky.social · 13d

What does the U.S. Constitution mean in American democracy today? The Center for Civic Thought entertains some ideas ... bit.ly/4pC9vWl

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Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 18d

In recent years, China has offered a range of childcare subsidies and tax breaks to encourage family formation. But these measures are unlikely to work, writes Emma Zang.

China’s Plunging Birth Rate Is a Crisis of Belief

New subsidies aren’t selling young people on the future.

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Yale ISPS @ispsyale.bsky.social · 22d

New study from @cantstopkevin.bsky.social. People often trust fake "pink slime" local news sites more than real ones: bit.ly/48hwuiW

Computer keyboard closeup with a large red "NEWS" key

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Yale ISPS @ispsyale.bsky.social · 22d

New study from @cantstopkevin.bsky.social. People often trust fake "pink slime" local news sites more than real ones: bit.ly/48hwuiW

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Klaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social · 29d

➡️📍📑 New Working Paper
with @sumpierrez.bsky.social and Rainer Bauböck

Work on migrant voting rights often has a state-centric perspective. We propose *migrant franchise constellations* as a migrant-centric approach.

A 🧵 with our argument and new data! 🗳️

preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/...

The expansion of voting rights beyond territory and citizenship marks a major democratic development of the last fifty years. Migrant suffrage has been mostly studied from a state-centric perspective. But the rights that migrants hold emerge from specific combinations of the country of residence and the country of citizenship. From this migrant-centric perspective, what is the diagnosis of the spread and status of global migrant suffrage? We present franchise constellations as a migrant-centric framework for studying voting rights. Drawing on the most comprehensive dataset on migrant electoral rights, combined with novel data on nationality-specific restrictions, we compute almost 1.3 million dyad-year observations based on 172 countries between 1960 and 2020. Using migrant stock data, we find that at least 74 million migrants remained completely disenfranchised in 2020. Bilateral and multilateral efforts emerge as a fruitful path for addressing global migrant disenfranchisement.

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Yale ISPS @ispsyale.bsky.social · 28d

Ian Shapiro will discuss "Angry Populist Politics: Why It's Happening and What to do About It" at the New Haven Lawn Club on Wed. Sept. 17 at noon. Buy tickets to this preordered lunch event: www.ycnh.org/events/septe...

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Yale ISPS @ispsyale.bsky.social · 29d

Yale Community: Help us kick off our new Population Studies Workshop with a presentation this Monday at noon by Princeton's James Raymo on divorce, remarriage, and fertility in Japan. A light reception will be held immediately after. Please register to attend: bit.ly/3V8QJaT

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Yale ISPS @ispsyale.bsky.social · Sep 8

Psychedelic Ethics: The push to deregulate MDMA, magic mushrooms, and ketamine to treat PTSD, depression, substance abuse disorders and more offers great promise but also risks. bit.ly/46cF3ZU

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Emma Zang @dremmazang.bsky.social · Aug 29

New Yale study: Sex-selective abortion bans don’t change sex ratios—but they do harm health. Among Asian immigrant mothers, bans increased low birth weight + preterm births.

(news.yale.edu/2025/08/29/s...)

Study: Sex-selective abortion bans harm maternal and infant health

A new study by Yale sociologist Emma Zang links sex-selective abortion bans to negative birth outcomes for Asian immigrant mothers.

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Yale ISPS @ispsyale.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ph.D. student Nicholas Ottone presents his work on the ambiguities of police violence.

Nicholas Ottone speaks at a lectern in a classroom

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Yale ISPS @ispsyale.bsky.social · Aug 27

NEW STUDY: 80% of passed laws are supported by a majority of Americans. But Congress overall aligns with public opinion just 55% of the time: bit.ly/41qYFrB @shirokuriwaki.bsky.social

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Yale ISPS @ispsyale.bsky.social · Aug 27

NEW STUDY: 80% of passed laws are supported by a majority of Americans. But Congress overall aligns with public opinion just 55% of the time: bit.ly/41qYFrB @shirokuriwaki.bsky.social

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Emma Zang @dremmazang.bsky.social · Aug 26

The Yale Population Studies Workshop is live! Check out our fall lineup here: isps.yale.edu/population-s... Speakers span sociology, economics, medicine, and political science. Both Yale and non-Yale folks are welcome to sign up for the email listserv!

Population Studies Workshop | Institution for Social and Policy Studies

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Yale ISPS @ispsyale.bsky.social · Aug 25

Omowunmi Afolabi ‪@yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social‬ participates in a mock public hearing during the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics summer program.

Omowunmi Afolabi speaks in a classroom while holding a laptop computer.

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Yale ISPS @ispsyale.bsky.social · Aug 14

Meet our newest postdoctoral and predoctoral fellows! bit.ly/3HqGzzi

Predoctoral students stand outside 24 Hillhouse Ave in New Haven, Conn.

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Yale ISPS @ispsyale.bsky.social · Aug 20

Yale President Maurie McInnis: “In this moment of transition, in the face of uncertainty and instability in the world, be the hand that reaches out first ... Seek out and learn from other perspectives, not just the ones you arrived with. Because that’s how you build community." bit.ly/46Zr7EC

‘The community we build’: Yale welcomes newest students

In a pair of ceremonies on Cross Campus Monday, President Maurie McInnis and fellow Yale leaders welcomed the university’s newest undergraduate and graduate students.

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Yale ISPS @ispsyale.bsky.social · Aug 19

Fiona Kniaz presents work she is conducting with @jacobhacker.bsky.social on issues, groups, and congressional factions within the Democratic Party coalition.

Yale ISPS @ispsyale.bsky.social · Aug 18

Well that's a good sign

Sign above residential college that says "Welcome to Yale Class of 2029"

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Yale ISPS @ispsyale.bsky.social · Aug 15

Predoctoral fellow Jack Walker presents data on the effect on vote choice of the June 2024 debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

Jack Walker speaks in a classroom while referencing a slide on a projection screen

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Yale ISPS @ispsyale.bsky.social · Aug 14

Meet our newest postdoctoral and predoctoral fellows! bit.ly/3HqGzzi

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