Ryan LaRochelle
@rlarochelle.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at the Cohen Institute for Leadership and Public Service at the University of Maine. Researching and teaching about American political development and political history. Views are mine, not my employers. https://www.ryanlarochelle.com
He's a very shrewd politician--and I mean that in a good way!
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
He's a very shrewd politician--and I mean that in a good way!
I went on a lengthy diatribe in my group chat with my music friends just the other day about the demise of “the album” as a mode of expression. Glad I’m not the only one. ::puts Tommy on the turntable::
November 22, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I went on a lengthy diatribe in my group chat with my music friends just the other day about the demise of “the album” as a mode of expression. Glad I’m not the only one. ::puts Tommy on the turntable::
I've come **this close** to telling folks I'm having casual conversations with that I'm a math professor just to avoid the "ohhh, that must be fun right now" response.
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I've come **this close** to telling folks I'm having casual conversations with that I'm a math professor just to avoid the "ohhh, that must be fun right now" response.
academic.oup.com/psq/advance-... Looks like a bunch of articles are available here.
Advance articles | Political Science Quarterly | Oxford Academic
academic.oup.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
academic.oup.com/psq/advance-... Looks like a bunch of articles are available here.
Almost makes me miss the days of taking photos with a digital camera, pulling the files off an SD card, and then converting all the JPEGs to PDFs. Almost...
November 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Almost makes me miss the days of taking photos with a digital camera, pulling the files off an SD card, and then converting all the JPEGs to PDFs. Almost...
I mean, seriously, what could be better than this?
November 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I mean, seriously, what could be better than this?
The folks who claim they can’t leave because of ”the followings” they built have deluded themselves.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
The folks who claim they can’t leave because of ”the followings” they built have deluded themselves.
Sergei Pardos-Prado has a great article on how moderate parties can limit the influence of radical factions (focused on Europe and immigration). www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
How Can Mainstream Parties Prevent Niche Party Success? Center-Right Parties and the Immigration Issue | The Journal of Politics: Vol 77, No 2
The individual and systemic determinants of radical right voting in Europe have been thoroughly analyzed in past research. Surprisingly, these studies have largely ignored the conditions under which m...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Sergei Pardos-Prado has a great article on how moderate parties can limit the influence of radical factions (focused on Europe and immigration). www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
My go-to is Ziblatt and Gidron's Annual Reviews piece www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Center-Right Political Parties in Advanced Democracies
This review proposes a comparative research agenda on center-right parties in advanced democracies, bringing together research in American and comparative politics. Political scientists have recently ...
www.annualreviews.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
My go-to is Ziblatt and Gidron's Annual Reviews piece www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Principled actors on the center-right in the US are marginalized at the moment. But once Trump is off the scene (which he eventually will be), the battle for the future of democracy will require those on the right who acknowledge this threat to fight for their lives to keep the revanchists at bay.
November 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Principled actors on the center-right in the US are marginalized at the moment. But once Trump is off the scene (which he eventually will be), the battle for the future of democracy will require those on the right who acknowledge this threat to fight for their lives to keep the revanchists at bay.
Surely some will say that the entire political right has been cannibalized by this faction. A significant portion certainly has been. But if we assume that there are no principled actors on the wide swath of the American right, then we're resigning ourselves to systemic collapse.
November 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Surely some will say that the entire political right has been cannibalized by this faction. A significant portion certainly has been. But if we assume that there are no principled actors on the wide swath of the American right, then we're resigning ourselves to systemic collapse.
Eileen McDonagh (political scientist at Northeastern) is writing a similar book at the moment!
November 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Eileen McDonagh (political scientist at Northeastern) is writing a similar book at the moment!
"I alone can fix it."
November 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"I alone can fix it."
Hard to imagine many political scientists 15 years ago envisioned a world where low-turnout elections would benefit Democrats. This is one of the phenomenon that I think is incredibly Trump-specific. It's one of the reasons I have a hard time imagining a Trumpist GOP being as powerful without Trump.
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Hard to imagine many political scientists 15 years ago envisioned a world where low-turnout elections would benefit Democrats. This is one of the phenomenon that I think is incredibly Trump-specific. It's one of the reasons I have a hard time imagining a Trumpist GOP being as powerful without Trump.