Very, very important piece.

PAIR is so excited to welcome Rylee Crum as our first-ever PAIR Graduate Fellow! Rylee comes to us after completing a degree in Economics at Purdue.

Purdue friends, if you see Rylee around, please join us in welcoming her!

PAIR is very pleased welcome to Purdue our very first Postdoctoral Fellow, Ayoung Chun!

Dr. Chun (Ph.D., 2025, UCLA) will continue her work on money in politics and policymaking in Congress while with PAIR.

Welcome to Purdue, Ayoung!

Feel free to reach out with any questions -- the lecture is free and open to the public.

This is the first year of support from the Ann & Bill Moreau Endowment Honoring Sen. Birch Bayh. Purdue’s own Birch Bayh is the only American besides James Madison to author more than one successful constitutional amendment, so we are especially thankful to honor his amazing constitutional legacy.

Friends in Indiana, mark your calendars for PAIR's 3rd Annual Constitution Day Lecture! This year, we are excited to host Pulitzer-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse (Yale). Ms. Greenhouse will speak on the Court's response to the Trump Admin's view of executive power.

As @mattyglesias.bsky.social notes today, certain interest groups certainly built the polarization machine deliberately, but @jmcrosson.bsky.social wrote this great piece for us about how many just got sucked into it, even as single-issue orgs. 1/2 hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/when-lobby...

This is an interesting paper. IG-party interactions are complex and by no means a one-way street: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Thanks to generous support from the Jack Miller Center, PAIR is pleased to announce that we will host a reading group on executive power this year, led by our faculty affiliate, Sebastian Graham! Purdue faculty, please encourage your best students to apply (there are completion incentives)!

I was perplexed as to why someone would name a paper the same as Sean's book haha

Perfect, thanks man!!

That was the name of the paper?

I recall being on a panel at APSA/MPSA when someone presented a paper on Senate electoral class. Does anyone (perhaps the author!) know who that was?

Some people love both Yellowstone *and* NYC, Zander :)

Super glad to see this in print! It was a labor of love for @alexanderfurnas.com, @geofflorenz.bsky.social, and I -- we really love these data and think they have plenty of potential outside of this paper. Thanks to the Center for Effective Lawmaking for feedback! thelawmakers.org/legislative-...

This isn't evaluative in the "improvement" sense, but the coolest teaching "interview" I ever did involved sending 3 syllabi and sitting in a room for ~1 hour--answering questions about course design, readings, assignments, etc. I liked it so much that we replicated it at Purdue for a teaching line.

So many emergency orders. So little time. 🇺🇸

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Hugely important and troubling findings here -- from some of the best humans in our discipline!!

If you are interested in co-sponsoring one of these with PAIR next year, please reach out! We are collecting ideas for next MPSA application cycle.

ICYM our reverse roundtables last year, the premise is to bring practitioners & practitioner-adjacent scholars to MPSA for a moderated discussion about how to make our institutions work better. The hope is to generate interesting research Qs that can also have practical impact.

Folks on their way to MPSA: come check out PAIR's joint "Reverse" Roundtable with GRAIL! We are thrilled to be joined by @jdrackey.bsky.social and Ananda Bhatia to discuss the opportunities and challenges that AI and new tech present to legislatures.

Thanks, David!

Interest groups used to be a grubby and depolarizing force in our politics. They’re still grubby - but now, they’re also increasingly polarizing. Shed a tear for the lobbyist of yesteryear and read @jmcrosson.bsky.social important contribution to our forum on how Congress works now.

Great news--PAIR is hiring a two-year postdoc! Please consider applying or sharing with folks who might be interested! Please feel free to reach out to me with additional questions about the position, PAIR, Purdue, and Greater Lafayette careers.purdue.edu/job/PAIR-Pos...