Men still out-resource women on nearly everything known to predict voting: income, jobs, political interest. Except education, where women have pulled way ahead. @cohodes.bsky.social and I show how the education gap explains about half of why young women now outvote young men. 🔗 Link: bit.ly/4wwcd21

Education and the gender voting gap in U.S. presidential elections

Women in the United States have outpaced men in both voter participation and educational attainment in recent decades. Since education is closely tied…

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New publication in Publius! My article examines the federalism implications of the ongoing effort to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. academic.oup.com/publius/adva...

An Education in Devolution? Lessons in Federalism from the Elimination of the US Department of Education

Abstract. The Trump administration’s ongoing effort to dismantle the US Department of Education marks the most significant federalism development in educat

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📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Geography matters even within partisanship. Cameron Arnzen & David Houston find that some rural Republicans show distinct views on charter schools, vouchers, testing, and national standards compared to their non-rural counterparts. 📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1481

Are Rural Republicans Different When It Comes to Public Opinion on Education Policy?

Conservative education policy in the United States increasingly emphasizes school choice, decentralization, and parental authority. This chapter examines whether these priorities resonate equally acro...

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Cam Arnzen@camarnzen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As conservative education politics increasingly focuses on school choice, privatization, and parental authority, my new @annenberginstitute.bsky.social paper w/ @dmhouston.bsky.social explores whether rural Republicans think about ed policy in similar ways as non-rural Republicans. shorturl.at/pHvko

As conservative education politics increasingly focuses on school choice, privatization, and parental authority, my new @annenberginstitute.bsky.social paper w/ @dmhouston.bsky.social explores whether rural Republicans think about ed policy in similar ways as non-rural Republicans. shorturl.at/pHvko

Are Rural Republicans Different When It Comes to Public Opinion on Education Policy?

Conservative education policy in the United States increasingly emphasizes school choice, decentralization, and parental authority. This chapter examines whether these priorities resonate equally acro...

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Very cool paper! How politically united is the LGBTQ+ community? 🏳️‍🌈 “…findings suggest that the coalition is more resilient than prevailing narratives of fragmentation imply with international tension coexisting with rather than eroding collective solidarity.” preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/...

Bound Together, Apart: Subgroup Identity and the Limits of LGBTQ+ Linked Fate

Scholarship on LGBTQ+ politics often treats the LGBTQ+ community as a unified coalition, but do LGBTQ+ individuals identify with their specific subgroup or with the coalition broadly? I compare subgro...

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This work is SO important! The authors find that, as immigration enforcement ramped up in January 2025, foreign-born students became 37% more likely to miss school. This work helps us begin to understand the very real effects of ICE's presence on our students and our school systems.

Andrew Camp@andrewmcamp.com · 4mo ago

NEW PAPER: We study the effects of immigration policy on student attendance in 2025. Students born outside the U.S. were 2.2pp more likely to be absent after Jan 2025 (a 37% increase). That's ~2 extra missed days per semester. LINK: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1453 @annenberginstitute.bsky.social

I'm excited to share our latest EdWorking paper, "The Politics of Administrative Ease: Public Access to Local Special Education Information" (w/ @lindseykaler.bsky.social and co-authors). edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1447 #SpecialEducation #EdResearch @annenberginstitute.bsky.social

The Politics of Administrative Ease: Public Access to Local Special Education Information

What political and administrative resources contribute to the realization of rights in the United States? We examine this puzzle in the context of rights to education for students with disabilities by measuring the administrative ease of accessing local special education information: the extent to which governments actively reduce learning costs and make information accessible.

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The first of my dissertation papers is officially out in @psjeditor.bsky.social! I started this paper in 2023, so I am happy it’s finally out! 🎉 I wrote about it in this post for the North Central College Political Science Bulletin!

Dr. Arnzen's Research & Recent Publication on the Administrative Burdens of Voting

An introduction to some of my research and my new article out in Policy Studies Journal on how the "costs" of voting matter differently for individuals of different levels of education

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Congratulations to @camarnzen.bsky.social‬ on his appointment as Assistant Professor of Political Science at North Central College! His research examines how education policy & institutions shape democratic participation, governance, & public life. We’re excited to see this work continue.

Cam Arnzen@camarnzen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I am excited to share that this fall I will be starting as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at North Central College! 🎊 As a proud graduate of a liberal arts college, I’m happy to be heading to an institution committed to rigorous, democratic, and student-centered education.

I am excited to share that this fall I will be starting as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at North Central College! 🎊 As a proud graduate of a liberal arts college, I’m happy to be heading to an institution committed to rigorous, democratic, and student-centered education.

Increasingly, the students we teach are already familiar with education politics from their own K12 experiences! Many of them have chaotic “school board” or “school district” politics stories. This often makes for easy, tangible connections with many of the themes and concepts we teach!

APSA@apsa.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Political science curricula rarely address the politics of K12 schools—even though education shapes democracy. This new JPSE article argues it’s time to teach education politics. @camarnzen.bsky.social @chloeoneill.bsky.social

Excited to share a new @annenberginstitute.bsky.social working paper, co-authored w/ Rebecca Jacobsen. We’ve been exploring what happens when national partisan politics reach one of the most local arenas of American democracy—school board elections? edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1360

The Influence of Partisanship in Local School Board Elections: Evidence from Exit Polling in Michigan & Rhode Island

Education in the U.S. has long been shaped by local school boards elected in nonpartisan contests, a structure intended to shield schools from broader political forces. Today, many states are consider...

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How do administrative designs shape access to democracy? We analyze U.S. school district websites and meetings to show how bureaucracy and group mobilization facilitate access to school board info and the democratic process. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @jonathanecollins.bsky.social

Administrative Designs and Access to Political Arenas in Public Education

What administrative and political features render spaces of political action publicly accessible? Drawing on Schattschneider's core elements of visibility and scope, we offer a framework to identify ...

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Given education's essential role in shaping democracy and its recent drift into general, partisan politics, we argue that poli sci should take seriously studying the broader political dynamics of education & offer suggestions as to how to do so. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Teaching About Schooling: Integrating Education Politics into Political Science Curricula

Education is a vital tenet of a democratic society, equipping citizens with the skills necessary to self-govern. Individuals also experience K12 education policy consistently throughout their lives...

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Annenberg Institute@annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 9mo ago

@camarnzen.bsky.social and @chloeoneill.bsky.social explore how political science courses can better integrate education politics into the curriculum in “Teaching About Schooling: Integrating Education Politics into Political Science Curricula.” 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1551...

Are you a political scientist who studies/teaches education policy? Read this. Use it to improve your syllabi. Are you an education researcher who studies/teaches politics? Read this. Use it to improve your syllabi.

Annenberg Institute@annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 9mo ago

@camarnzen.bsky.social and @chloeoneill.bsky.social explore how political science courses can better integrate education politics into the curriculum in “Teaching About Schooling: Integrating Education Politics into Political Science Curricula.” 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1551...

As I start my read of 107 Days, I have to remind myself that 77.3 million people voted for Trump and 75 million voted for Kamala, but 90 million eligible voters didn’t vote at all… 🗳️

Destroying Fed independence is almost the perfect example of latent opinion. Polls won’t tell you the effect on public opinion because most people don’t think about and/or understand monetary policy basics. But if you cause inflation or stagflation, future public opinion will be very disapproving.

Junior faculty and grad students in political science, history, law, and Native American Studies, come take a class with us at the New York Historical Society (and via Zoom) on Native Peoples, American Colonialism, and the U.S. Constitution. To apply, Institute for Constitutional History: 1/2

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

Santiago Mayer@santiagomayer.com · 12mo ago

It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.

Excited to circulate another @caldercenter.bsky.social WP! Another study from my dissertation, w/ @roddy-theobald.bsky.social‬. Using data from WA, we track individual paraeducators to predict exit from the state education workforce. Ungated WP here: ‬ tinyurl.com/3wtfrm2m 🧵 below:

The book comes out next month! You can preorder now from SUNY or that other place that sells books on the internet. sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...

Teaching LGBTQ Politics

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Edward Kammerer@efkjr.bsky.social · 2y ago

Oh hey! We have a book cover now! Coming out later this year, from SUNY Press.

Jerry Min Receives the 2025 APSA Best Poster Award for “Do Left Governments Tax More? How States Tax Global Capital With Tax Treaties” The APSA Best Poster Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best poster presented by a graduate student or…

Jerry Min Receives the 2025 APSA Best Poster Award for “Do Left Governments Tax More? How States Tax Global Capital With Tax Treaties”

The APSA Best Poster Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best poster presented by a graduate student or early career scholar at the previous APSA Annual Meeting. Citation from the Award Committee: Jerry Jie Min (Harvard University) has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 APSA Best Poster Award for his poster, “Left Governments Offer More Tax Incentives to Foreign Investors Through International Treaties.” Chosen from among over 200 eligible posters presented by graduate students and early-career scholars at the APSA Annual Meeting, Min’s poster exemplified excellence across all four of our evaluation criteria: clarity and organization; research quality and rigor; relevance and impact; and presentation and engagement.

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looking forward to some parents suing to demand segregated schools because integration violates their religious beliefs

Raffi Melkonian@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · last yr.

Wow that’s broad. Incredibly broad. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

In our 2024 U.S. Post-Election Reflection via @apsa.bsky.social, Rebecca Jacobsen and I preview some of our ongoing research on how partisanship and nationalization influence on-cycle local school board elections.

Local Elections, National Tides: The Role of Partisanship in School Board Elections: 2024 Post-Election Reflection Series -

Prior to the 2024 US Presidential Election, APSA’s Diversity and Inclusion Programs Department issued a call for submissions, entitled 2024 APSA Post-Election Reflections, for a PSNow blog series of political science scholars who reflect on [...]

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All of the “let’s revisit this in June” convos are coming to roost. 😵‍💫

This is so, so important: these smaller-in-size regional protests. It's not just big cities! It's people in small towns, too.

Mary Doria Russell@mdoriarussell.bsky.social · last yr.

Chardon, Ohio, population 5242 in 2020 census, had approximately 400 people show up in the rain. #nokings

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Hi! I’m looking for a few more doctorate holding reviewers for AERA Division L - Section 1 (governance and politics). Reviewing will take place later this summer. If you’re interested, drop a comment here or message me. Thanks for considering.

🚨Attention Job Seekers: We're hiring a quantitative researcher for a 1-year (possibly renewable for 2nd yr) position to study Career & Technical education! While not technically a postdoc, this would be a great fit for a recent PhD graduate! 🧵 careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Saw the first academic job market posting (so early?!) of the season... Hello existential stress, my old friend.

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