tim lapira
@timlapira.bsky.social
Political scientist: elite behavior, Congress, staff, lobbyists, policy process. Director, APRILab. EIC, Interest Groups & Advocacy. Affiliate, Center for Effective Lawmaking. Gooner, The Arsenal.
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wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
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This kind of self-censorship is a key way our media is failing us. Kudos to Greenblatt for his integrity, and to Politico for publishing this.
Opinion | My Bosses Were Afraid of Crossing Trump. So, I Quit.
A veteran journalist opens up on the censorship that he says led to his resignation.
www.politico.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This kind of self-censorship is a key way our media is failing us. Kudos to Greenblatt for his integrity, and to Politico for publishing this.
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Other authoritarians at least tried to hide their corruption. Trump plasters it on the front page of The NYTimes.
We only learned about Imelda Marcos's shoe collection after anti-corruption protesters stormed the palace. Trump is out there showing us his loot and handing us the bill.
We only learned about Imelda Marcos's shoe collection after anti-corruption protesters stormed the palace. Trump is out there showing us his loot and handing us the bill.
October 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Other authoritarians at least tried to hide their corruption. Trump plasters it on the front page of The NYTimes.
We only learned about Imelda Marcos's shoe collection after anti-corruption protesters stormed the palace. Trump is out there showing us his loot and handing us the bill.
We only learned about Imelda Marcos's shoe collection after anti-corruption protesters stormed the palace. Trump is out there showing us his loot and handing us the bill.
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Per @politico.com , the lobbyists are basically treating Article I as dead.
October 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Per @politico.com , the lobbyists are basically treating Article I as dead.
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We often say Congress has the power of the purse, a framing coming from the Federalist Papers. But to be technical, it is federal law that has the power of the purse. Appropriations bills are laws! Rather than a fight between branches, it's better to think of this as a question of the rule of law.
"No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”
-Article 1, Section 8, US Constitution
Not a "norm" violation. A legal and constitutional violation.
-Article 1, Section 8, US Constitution
Not a "norm" violation. A legal and constitutional violation.
Leavitt: "President Trump had to tap into tariff revenue to get WIC money out the door for vulnerable women, infants, and children/"
October 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
We often say Congress has the power of the purse, a framing coming from the Federalist Papers. But to be technical, it is federal law that has the power of the purse. Appropriations bills are laws! Rather than a fight between branches, it's better to think of this as a question of the rule of law.
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If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
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Does lobbying access actually mean lobbying influence?
In our new @jeppjournal.bsky.social paper we try to answer this key question in interest group politics and lobbying by exploring models of access = influence translation.
Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... is #OA
In our new @jeppjournal.bsky.social paper we try to answer this key question in interest group politics and lobbying by exploring models of access = influence translation.
Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... is #OA
October 16, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Does lobbying access actually mean lobbying influence?
In our new @jeppjournal.bsky.social paper we try to answer this key question in interest group politics and lobbying by exploring models of access = influence translation.
Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... is #OA
In our new @jeppjournal.bsky.social paper we try to answer this key question in interest group politics and lobbying by exploring models of access = influence translation.
Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... is #OA
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Do think tanks coordinate with interest groups or protect their turf? J A H Whittlestone, C K Florczak & @mbklitgaard.bsky.social examine alliances and autonomy in corporatist systems. Read more: buff.ly/uvX3e6O
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci
October 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Do think tanks coordinate with interest groups or protect their turf? J A H Whittlestone, C K Florczak & @mbklitgaard.bsky.social examine alliances and autonomy in corporatist systems. Read more: buff.ly/uvX3e6O
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci
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Lost science series is documenting the research that is being cut in the US www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c... 🧪
Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Lost science series is documenting the research that is being cut in the US www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c... 🧪
Proud to announce the new @igajournal.bsky.social Special Collection, “New Persoectives on Lobbying Regulation and Reform: Two Generations of Research.” This great set of articles was guest edited by Ray Chari of Trinity College Dublin. link.springer.com/collections/...
New Perspectives on Lobbying Regulation and Reform
This Special Collection presents research on lobbying regulation and reform representative of two generations of scholarship. Contributions examine regulatory ...
link.springer.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Proud to announce the new @igajournal.bsky.social Special Collection, “New Persoectives on Lobbying Regulation and Reform: Two Generations of Research.” This great set of articles was guest edited by Ray Chari of Trinity College Dublin. link.springer.com/collections/...
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EDDIE NKETIAH'S GREATEST ARSENAL GOAL EVER 🔴
September 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
EDDIE NKETIAH'S GREATEST ARSENAL GOAL EVER 🔴
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Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
September 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The "Lobbying and Advocacy" panel is at 4pm today. Don't miss the exciting five presentations on lobbying and policy advocacy. @davidryanmiller.com @timlapira.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social #APSA25
September 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The "Lobbying and Advocacy" panel is at 4pm today. Don't miss the exciting five presentations on lobbying and policy advocacy. @davidryanmiller.com @timlapira.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social #APSA25
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Harvard's Steve Levitsky said in April that "We are no longer living in a democratic regime" www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
But what this is can be hard to describe. We tend to think in binaries, but there's a continuum from democracy to authoritarianism & we're headed the wrong way.
But what this
Part of my editor's note on our suspension between states of democracy and authoritarianism www.dissentmagazine.org/article/fall...
September 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Harvard's Steve Levitsky said in April that "We are no longer living in a democratic regime" www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
But what this is can be hard to describe. We tend to think in binaries, but there's a continuum from democracy to authoritarianism & we're headed the wrong way.
But what this
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This is what you do when you’ve given up on competing for elections
🚨BREAKING: The Missouri House approved a new gerrymandered map 90-65, advancing the map to the Senate as part of a national plan to try to rig the 2026 election. The new map could eliminate a crucial Democratic seat.
More on what's at stake:
More on what's at stake:
Missouri House Sends GOP Gerrymander to the Senate
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This is what you do when you’ve given up on competing for elections
Check out our new little paper with a simple but surprising (to many) fact: most “special interests” that lie by the govt don’t have a PAC for campaign donations. All too often lobbying and campaign contributions are conflated. With @clarebrock.bsky.social and @alexanderfurnas.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Check out our new little paper with a simple but surprising (to many) fact: most “special interests” that lie by the govt don’t have a PAC for campaign donations. All too often lobbying and campaign contributions are conflated. With @clarebrock.bsky.social and @alexanderfurnas.com
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The Snitch State
This is the nightmare of many faculty at public institutions in GOP-controlled states… being ratted out by students to hostile administrators.
This is the nightmare of many faculty at public institutions in GOP-controlled states… being ratted out by students to hostile administrators.
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The Snitch State
This is the nightmare of many faculty at public institutions in GOP-controlled states… being ratted out by students to hostile administrators.
This is the nightmare of many faculty at public institutions in GOP-controlled states… being ratted out by students to hostile administrators.
Former student emails to ask “essential readings on democratic backsliding.”
I have thoughts but looking for accessible, evidence-informed political science/adjacent work for a curious, intrinsically motivated person who’s not in interested in debating with you.
Suggestions?
I have thoughts but looking for accessible, evidence-informed political science/adjacent work for a curious, intrinsically motivated person who’s not in interested in debating with you.
Suggestions?
September 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Former student emails to ask “essential readings on democratic backsliding.”
I have thoughts but looking for accessible, evidence-informed political science/adjacent work for a curious, intrinsically motivated person who’s not in interested in debating with you.
Suggestions?
I have thoughts but looking for accessible, evidence-informed political science/adjacent work for a curious, intrinsically motivated person who’s not in interested in debating with you.
Suggestions?
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It's difficult to convey the extent to which the modal administrator's dream university has no faculty. Just admins with fake jobs flying around on expense accounts and students putting cash in a vending machine that prints out a degree after 4 yrs. Ideally the two groups never see each other.
July 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
It's difficult to convey the extent to which the modal administrator's dream university has no faculty. Just admins with fake jobs flying around on expense accounts and students putting cash in a vending machine that prints out a degree after 4 yrs. Ideally the two groups never see each other.
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If all goes to plan over the next few days, Arsenal will have made six first-team signings before the start of their pre-season tour. That has never happened before at #AFC in the 23 years since the current transfer window system was introduced.
July 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
If all goes to plan over the next few days, Arsenal will have made six first-team signings before the start of their pre-season tour. That has never happened before at #AFC in the 23 years since the current transfer window system was introduced.
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Paramount has joined Disney in paying bribes to Donald Trump, the Washington Post killed its Harris endorsement, Fox News functions as Republican state media, and the X algorithm amplifies fascist content. Here's why the media has a liberal bias problem.
July 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Paramount has joined Disney in paying bribes to Donald Trump, the Washington Post killed its Harris endorsement, Fox News functions as Republican state media, and the X algorithm amplifies fascist content. Here's why the media has a liberal bias problem.
Protection racket, pure and simple.
Paramount says it has agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump over the editing of CBS' "60 Minutes" interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris in October.
Paramount to pay $16 million in settlement with Trump over '60 Minutes' interview
Paramount told media outlets the money will go to Trump’s future presidential library, not to the president himself. It said the settlement did not involve an apology.
bit.ly
July 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Protection racket, pure and simple.
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University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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June 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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June 25, 2025 at 7:10 AM