🚨 Workforces exposed to globalization and decarbonization are often overwhelmingly male. New article at @ajpseditor.bsky.social with @rickyclark.bsky.social and @rkhoban.bsky.social asks how layoffs of these men shape voting: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Joshua Kertzer
@jkertzer.bsky.social
John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Government at Harvard University | International relations 🤝 political psychology jkertzer.sites.fas.harvard.edu
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A huge thank you to all of the hard-working team at @apsa.bsky.social, and countless section and program chairs, for a wonderful #APSA2026 in Boston! 🦞 Special shout-out to all of the grad students who took time to introduce themselves! I know everything is stressful, but you're doing great! 😊
What's #APSA2026 for, if not for a Sunday 8 AM panel? Leaders! Decision-making! - Jack Levy & Yintong Chen - @mlandauwells.bsky.social - @mitsurumu.bsky.social & I - Hohyun Yoon & Jonathan Renshon - @mcfuhrmann.bsky.social James Kim - @profsaunders.bsky.social @mikegoldfien.bsky.social
Princeton Niehaus Center (@niehauscenter.bsky.social) now accepting applications for 2027–28 postdoctoral fellowships: niehaus.princeton.edu/fellowships Deadline: Thursday, October 15, 2026
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Attending APSA? I will host a book roundtable on my recently published book TAMING THE CAREERISTS! The roundtable will take place on Saturday, September 5, from 10am to 11:30am in Marriott Salon C.
When is an outgroup kinda sorta an ingroup? Lucy Song asks whether race affects foreign threat perception. Among white Americans, higher white identity tracked with viewing white-depicted adversaries as lower threat than non-white-depicted, even when controlling for out-group animus. buff.ly/yFalewy
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Congratulations to @chagaiweiss.bsky.social on the publication of Delivering Tolerance! A rigorous and engaging take on institutional solutions for prejudice reduction, and an impressive study of contact theory at scale ⚙️🧠🕊️ @princetonupress.bsky.social
Interested in the public’s skepticism towards new technology like AI? @janzilinsky.bsky.social and I’ve got a paper for you. We built a scale and found that worries about social media, AI, and modernity form a coherent anti-tech disposition. Conditionally accepted at @ajpseditor.bsky.social
In possibly the fastest shift in public opinion I've ever seen, local data center approval went from -5 to -65 in less than a year heatmap.news/daily/data-c...
🚨 Going up on eJobs later today: Harvard has an open-field tenure-track search this fall, with priority areas in American Politics, International Relations, Formal Theory, and Quantitative Methods. Feel free to reach out with any questions! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16668
TENURE-TRACK PROFESSOR IN GOVERNMENT
The Department of Government seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor in Government. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2027. The tenure-track professor will be responsible for teaching ...
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The 2026 iteration of the Harvard-MIT IR Summer Reading Group has wrapped up! 📚 For our format innovation this year, each week a guest (non)-speaker circulated work in progress, which we discussed and provided feedback for over lunch (this year's line-up is below)
In Delivering Tolerance, @chagaiweiss.bsky.social develops a new theory of prejudice reduction, arguing that public institutions & the people within them can improve intergroup relations in conflict-ridden societies. Out now! Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
My book, Taming the Careerists, will be published by Cambridge University Press this September! There is growing debate over whether federal employees should be easier to dismiss in order to make them more responsive to presidential directives. What would be the consequences of such a change?
We typically think of deterrence as cold and calculating. In a new JCR with @uoft-poli-sci.bsky.social's Pomeroy & Rathbun, we explore the psychology of deterrence thinking, showing it relies on intuition instead. When we shoot, we shoot from the hip. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We typically think of deterrence as cold and calculating. In a new JCR with @uoft-poli-sci.bsky.social's Pomeroy & Rathbun, we explore the psychology of deterrence thinking, showing it relies on intuition instead. When we shoot, we shoot from the hip. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
From April 2026 - Elite Misperceptions in Foreign Policy - cup.org/4cmGwBb - @jkertzer.bsky.social, Joshua Busby, Jonathan Monten, @jordantama.bsky.social & @ckafura.bsky.social #OpenAccess
Publishing null results *is* hard. Thrilled to finally see this paper with @danielnposner.bsky.social and @dougparkerson.bsky.social investigating the impact of bottom-up accountability on healthcare outcomes in print in the JOP. Thread 👇 doi.org/10.1086/736577
Congratulations to Leonie Huddy of Stony Brook University on receiving the 2026 Harold Lasswell Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. Read more about Leonie and all ISPP award winners here: https://bit.ly/4vMtt2X #ISPP #PoliticalPsychology #LasswellAward
Excited to share my new paper w/ @janzilinsky.bsky.social that's conditionally accepted at @ajpseditor.bsky.social 🎉 Is there a general "anti-technology" orientation among Americans? We built a scale and found that worries about social media, AI, and modernity do form a coherent disposition.
🚨 Now out in @bjpols.bsky.social w @busbyj2.bsky.social @jordantama.bsky.social @ckafura.bsky.social: Do American foreign policy elites know what the public wants? Partnering with @global-affairs.bsky.social, we show that elites systematically misread the room 🧵 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
"Voluntary action in International Relations" by Joseph M. Parent and Paul K. MacDonald has recently been published in EJIR and is available online. Find it here: t1p.de/otzph
📢 New paper out in @AJPS_Editor with Christian Baehr & Fiona Bare: "Climate Exposure Drives Firm Political Behavior: Evidence from Earnings Calls and Lobbying Data" When & how do firms engage in climate politics? 🧵 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
NEW - Elite Misperceptions in Foreign Policy - cup.org/4cmGwBb - @jkertzer.bsky.social, Joshua Busby, Jonathan Monten, @jordantama.bsky.social & @ckafura.bsky.social #OpenAccess
#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social - Convergent Flexibility: How International Law Keeps Pace with Technological Change - https://cup.org/4bLca9S - @jcanfil.bsky.social #FirstView
Out in @thejop.bsky.social: How Exiles Mobilize Domestic Dissent with @aasiegel.bsky.social We investigate how Egyptian exiles influenced a cascade of online dissent that culminated in anti-regime protests back home in September 2019. Article link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
"Sandel is the closest thing political philosophy has to a rock star. He’s known, in particular, for his Socratic style of moral questioning." Read the @nytimes.com piece 👉 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/b...
A Philosopher ‘Prophet’
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Conceptualizing and Measuring Geopolitical Alignments - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Conceptualizing and Measuring Geopolitical Alignments
A vast literature examines how geopolitical alignments influence militarized conflict, trade, investment, aid, and other outcomes in international relations. Yet, considerable ambiguity remains regard...
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Writing an autoethnography about my experience watching academics attempt to use listservs