One thing I'm really proud of here is the data we brought to bear on the extremely common campaign topic of targeted messaging: qualitative interviews, an online field experiment, two survey experiments, and a meta-analysis. Thankful for my two co-authors and for all the feedback along the way!

You are right that we should be looking outside the US for understanding but I’d also say probably some of the work on authoritarianism in the US are relevant. A non-Cambridge book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Social housing funding appears poised to pass by a wide margin in Seattle. The Prop 1A version to enact an excise tax on employers with highly compensated employees is leading with 58% of the vote.

Here’s the Substack write-up if you’re interested:
open.substack.com/pub/somegood...