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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 30m

Companies are hiring many more internal policy specialists than lobbyists; it is a much larger investment in politics and internal expertise
www.andrewbenjaminhall.com/HallSun25.pdf

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 22d

Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates.

For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim.

“Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”

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Max Kagan @maxkagan.bsky.social · Sep 5

New York City is the Riyadh of America

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/n...

Talks Between Adams and Trump Adviser Center on Saudi Ambassadorship

www.nytimes.com

Max Kagan @maxkagan.bsky.social · Sep 4

Excellent reference for those, like me, who can always benefit from a refresher on statistical power

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Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · Jul 10

📢 Thrilled to share our new article introducing CampaignView—a comprehensive open-source dataset of congressional candidate campaign bios and policy platforms (2018–2022). Paper + data here: campaignview.org & doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... 🧵1/4

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Max Kagan @maxkagan.bsky.social · Aug 4

Wild times for those of us who study corporate sociopolitical activism

Max Kagan @maxkagan.bsky.social · Jul 12

It looks like there is already a Stata MCP, for those who might want such a thing

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Max Kagan @maxkagan.bsky.social · Jun 30

For that matter, right now there are ~700k people per representative and GA has ~1.3m non-citizen residents, so MTG’s own state would likely lose at least one, maybe 2 reps?

Max Kagan @maxkagan.bsky.social · Jun 30

Constitutional questions aside, it isn’t clear to me what the net partisan electoral effect would be? CA and NY would presumably lose representatives (and thus electors), but so would FL and TX?

Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · Jun 30

NEW: GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she is introducing a bill requiring a new census "immediately upon enactment" & congressional redistricting using numbers that exclude non-U.S. citizens from census results that the 14th Amendment says must include the “whole number of persons in each state”

I just got off the phone with President Trump!!

I told him about my new bill I am introducing that will save America’s elections from ever being stolen again!

My bill will require the U.S. Census Bureau to conduct a new census immediately upon enactment of the bill. In conducting the new census of the U.S. population, it shall require questions determining the citizenship of each individual, and count US citizens only.
Upon completion of the census, the bill will direct states to immediately begin a redistricting of all U.S. House seats process using only the population of United States citizens.

Thank you President Trump for your strong support of my bill, Making American Elections Great Again!!!

Let’s get this done!!!

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Max Kagan @maxkagan.bsky.social · Jun 26

Much of my recent research has been thinking critically about whether it is always reasonable to use public campaign finance records as a good way to understand corporate executives' political ideology. So it is pretty striking to see someone "saying the quiet part out loud!"

Teddy Schleifer @teddyschleifer.bsky.social · Jun 25

Here's a fun thing that a top donor to Andrew Cuomo's super PAC just told me.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · Jun 25

In the political literature this is known as donating for access. It’s very common. Campaign donations should be interpreted as strategic manifestations of political goals, not expressions of true preference.

Teddy Schleifer @teddyschleifer.bsky.social · Jun 25

Here's a fun thing that a top donor to Andrew Cuomo's super PAC just told me.

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Max Kagan @maxkagan.bsky.social · Jun 26

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Zhao Li @zhaoliresearch.bsky.social · Jun 23

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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · Jun 12

Measuring and Modeling Neighborhoods

Measuring and Modeling Neighborhoods By Cory McCartan, New York University, Jacob R. Brown, Boston University and Kosuke Imai, Harvard University Granular geographic data present new opportunities to understand how neighborhoods are formed, and how they…

Measuring and Modeling Neighborhoods

Measuring and Modeling Neighborhoods By Cory McCartan, New York University, Jacob R. Brown, Boston University and Kosuke Imai, Harvard University Granular geographic data present new opportunities to understand how neighborhoods are formed, and how they influence politics. At the same time, the inherent subjectivity of neighborhoods creates methodological challenges in measuring and modeling them. We develop an open-source survey instrument that allows respondents to draw their neighborhoods on a map.

politicalsciencenow.com

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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · Jun 5

📄 @fgilardi.bsky.social created this template for writing abstracts several years ago, and I’ve tried to follow Fabrizio‘s suggestions ever since.

PDF: fabriziogilardi.org/resources/pa...

Everyone agrees that this issue is really important. But we do not know much about this specific question, although it matters a great deal, for these reasons. We approach the problem from this perspective. Our research design focuses on these cases and relies on these data, which we analyze using this method. Results show what we have learned about the question. They have these broader implications.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · Jun 2

Americans who report paying “a lot of attention” to news (everyone on this platform) are (a) in the minority of voters and (b) very, very prone to assuming the other side of the aisle is all extremists. This is counterproductive to broader party efforts at persuasion. I have sources:

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Not all Trump voters "voted for this"

Trump’s policy agenda is very unpopular, including with many of his supporters. To win the next election, Democrats need to welcome regretful Trump voters back onto their side

www.gelliottmorris.com

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · Jun 2

Most people consume less than 1 hour of news per day (Pew). The result of this is that they are simply not or are ill/mis-informed, and do not have hard preferences on policy or parties. About 15-20% of voters can correctly identify positions as belonging to the left or right (Kinder and Kalmoe, 17)

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