Are politicians gatekeepers of democracy? Will they reject candidates for party leadership or coalitions to protect it? We ran pre-registered experiments on 2,000 Norwegian politicians. They do gatekeep, but it’s conditional. osf.io/preprints/so...
Daniel A. N. Goldstein
@daniel-a-n-goldstein.com
Assistant Prof/postdoc at UiO. Prior: Max Weber at EUI and PhD at Yale. Political economy, climbing, etc. https://daniel-a-n-goldstein.com/
60 years after Kaufman’s The Forest Ranger, a defining study of how federal agencies build institutional identity, we see the near total destruction of the US Forest Service
📢 New Article 👥 Daniel Alexander Novick Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com (ISV) & Drew Stommes 👉 Who Should Fight? Experimental Evidence on Policy Corrections to the Unequal Costs of US Wars 📗 Open Access in International Studies Quarterly 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/isq/...
Who Should Fight? Experimental Evidence on Policy Corrections to the Unequal Costs of US Wars
Abstract. The physical costs of war—who fights and experiences casualties—are borne unequally in the USA. However, little is known about how informing indi
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Do citizens want to address unfair burden-sharing in public goods? New research out in ISQ @isq-jrnl.bsky.social with @drewstommes.bsky.social addresses this question by highlighting the unequal socioeconomic costs of US wars academic.oup.com/isq/article/...
The 5th Nordic Political Behavior Workshop in Trondheim! @lchristensen.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social @finseraas.bsky.social et al!
For no particular reason, anyone interested in a model of bureaucratic resistance may find the following interesting! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #PolSci
The EPA (like most Federal agencies) is facing alarming “institutional erosion”, maybe worse than the chaos of the 1980s. And this quote gets to the real point. This is not about policy differences. These are institutional changes that require acts by Congress #EPA #InstitutionalDisruption #Congress
"If someone legally in the United States can be grabbed from his home for engaging in constitutionally protected political activity, we are in a drastically different country from the one we inhabited before," writes our columnist Michelle Goldberg.
Opinion | This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare
Mahmoud Khalil’s detention is a frightening sign of an authoritarian slide.
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Trump’s firing of key officials and the gutting of agencies is more than headlines—it’s reshaping American government capacity with long-term effects on political stability and policy. My @thejop.bsky.social article explores how “institutional disruption” impacts government performance over time 🧵
The @lsegovernment.bsky.social / STICERD political science & political economy WiP seminar resumes tomorrow with @dang11.bsky.social, and an exciting line up for the Winter Term
Some thoughts on the future of American federal agencies and their capacity under the second Trump administration wp.me/p3I2YF-eAy
