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Francisco Garfias

@fgarfias.bsky.social

Associate Prof of Political Science at Duke University http://franciscogarfias.com/

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Shelley Liu@shelleyliu.bsky.social · last mo.

Duke will host SOWEPS (Oct 29-30). Pls consider submitting papers/research designs by Sep 11: www.soweps.org/call-for-pap... We especially encourage job-market candidates and junior faculty in institutions in the Southeast (broadly defined) to submit! Travel support for grad students available.

SoWEPS - Call for Papers

We are excited to announce that the 11th edition of the Southern Workshop in Empirical Political Science (SoWEPS) will take place at Duke University on October 29-30, 2026. The SoWEPS-11 workshop or...

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Lauren Prather@laurenrprather.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Excited to share the launch of my new center at UCSD focused on trust and transparency in U.S. elections. We will be supporting research on election administration and voter confidence through research-practice partnerships. More to come! today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san...

UC San Diego Launches Nonpartisan Center to Build Trust in US Elections

The Center for Transparent and Trusted Elections, with the support of a $2.5 million grant from the Election Trust Initiative, will test new ways to strengthen public confidence in U.S. elections acro...

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Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.

Letters on Wednesday were going out to solicit agreement and feedback from Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas, the University of Arizona, Brown University and the University of Virginia, according to an administration official.
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Claire Adida@claireadida.bsky.social · last yr.

“If universities are not willing to stand up for the free speech and academic freedom of their students and faculty, then what, if any, values do they stand for?” cc @ucsandiego.bsky.social @ucnewsroom.bsky.social

Ilya Somin@ilyasomin.bsky.social · last yr.

In this post, I commend universities that filed amicus brief in AAUP case challenging speech-based deportations of foreign students, but also explain why this isn't adequate substitute for universities bringing a case of their own: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Michael Yarbrough (he/him)@mwyarbrough.bsky.social · last yr.

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

Excerpt from Rutgers University Senate resolution calling for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. The excerpt reads: "BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement;"
Elizabeth N. Saunders@profsaunders.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW: Senior polisci colleagues @ Columbia endorse our letter on how we would respond to the Trump attack. For expidiency we 5 did not ask for other signatures. Grateful for strong show of unity. @vickymurillo.bsky.social @pagefortna.bsky.social Letter: danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post...

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tim frye@timfrye.bsky.social · 2y ago

Earlier this week five of my senior colleagues wrote a response to the demands placed on Columbia. The link is here. I also post a short note from Senior Faculty in the Department of Political Science who endorse their response. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

Didac Queralt@didacqueralt.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨New pre-print! It builds on the State Formation seminar that I teach at Yale, benefiting from rich conversations with brilliant students. The piece tackles state formation, state building, and outlines 3 paths of future research: civil wars, international constraints, and bureaucratic capacity.

From Territorial Consolidation to Bureaucratic Dominance: The Long Arc of State Development | Annual Reviews

Our understanding of state development—a term that encompasses both state formation and state building—has grown significantly in the last two decades. In this review, I outline the foundations of the...

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Francisco Garfias@fgarfias.bsky.social · 2y ago

Can the provision of public goods increase tax compliance? In a new working paper with Anne Brockmeyer & Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, we study a large public investment experiment and find that local public infrastructure does not improve property tax compliance in Mexico City. #polisky #econsky 1/

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Brad DeLong@braddelong.bsky.social · 3y ago

Gunpowder-Empire Fiscal Legibility & State Development: Economic History/Political Economy Seminar Francisco Garfias & Emily A. Sellars: "Fiscal Legibility & State Development" :: 2024-03-04 12:30 PST :: Philosophy 223, U.C. Berkeley…… < braddelong.substack.com/p/gunpowder-... > 2024-03-04 Mo

Gunpowder-Empire Fiscal Legibility & State Development: Economic History/Political Economy Seminar

Francisco Garfias & Emily A. Sellars: "Fiscal Legibility & State Development" :: 2024-03-04 12:30 PST :: Philosophy 223, U.C. Berkeley...

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Francisco Garfias@fgarfias.bsky.social · 3y ago

What drives political centralization and state development?   In a new article accepted in the AJPS, Emily Sellars and I focus on the role of fiscal legibility: the ability of central authorities to observe conditions in the periphery.   A short polisky summary: 1/

Abstract for the article "Fiscal Legibility and State Development: Theory and Evidence from Colonial Mexico".
Jared Rubin@jaredcrubin.com · 3y ago

First post on Blue Sky! Thought I’d start it with a thread laying out the chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy (the proofs are finally in!) The Handbook comes out in November

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