Dr. Philip J. Howe
@drphilipjhowe.bsky.social
Professor & Chair of Political Science & Fulbright Program Adviser, Adrian College; External Fellow, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE); frmr Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) & Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Reskeet≠agree.
This looks very interesting:
Danbischof@danbischof.bsky.social · 1h ago📄 And another working paper: **Pretty much all citizens say they support democracy.** But what do they mean by that? We ask whether voters from different partisan camps mean the same thing when they talk about "democracy." Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...
Announcing the 2026 Film Series as part of the ASEEES Annual Convention in Chicago, IL aseees.org/convention/2... #ASEEES26
Much of Sigmund Freud’s work has been dismissed as quackery, Scott Stossel writes—but it might align with modern brain research more than we think.
What if Freud Was Right?
A neuroscientist dares to argue that old-fashioned psychoanalysis holds the key to curing mental illness.
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NEW: Kate & Leah cover some GOOD legal news (Parampunt merger on hold!) before Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social joins to talk about the Pres anti-voting EO that’s now up at SCOTUS & then @ifwhenhow.bsky.social Farrah Diaz-Tello talks pregnancy criminalization crooked.com/podcast/will...
Will Trump Succeed in Rigging the Midterms? | Crooked Media
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‘I want to start very near the beginning of the tradition of Western literature, and its first recorded example of a man telling a woman to “shut up”. I’m thinking of a moment immortalised at the start of the 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺.’ Mary Beard on the public voice of women (2014) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
Mary Beard · The Public Voice of Women
Public speech was a – if not the – defining attribute of maleness. A woman speaking in public was, in most...
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NEW - Disproportionality in Geographic Representation - https://cup.org/4fLxlL5 - Orit Kedar, Yair Amitai & Gilad Hurvitz #OpenAccess
Prof Denied Tenure: Academic Freedom at UT Being Dismantled share.google/aMlYsaDWijb7...
Prof Denied Tenure: Academic Freedom at UT Being Dismantled
Border-surveillance researcher Iván Chaar López received a near-unanimous recommendation from faculty and outstanding external support letters. Still, he was denied tenure without explanation.
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The MPR Raccoon scaled a 25-story skyscraper eight years ago, paving the way for other viral varmints.
Anything Jimothy can do, the MPR raccoon did better
The MPR Raccoon scaled a 25-story skyscraper eight years ago, paving the way for other viral varmints.
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Why survey sample type no longer offers a clear signal about data accuracy: www.verasight.io/reports/prob...
Probability-Based Samples Are No Longer a Survey Quality Heuristic | Verasight
Collapsing response rates and nonignorable nonresponse mean a probability sample no longer signals whether a survey accurately represents the population.
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Verasight@verasight.io · 2w agoFor decades, probability-based samples were the gold standard of survey research. In our latest Verasight Report, @peterenns.bsky.social and Joey Marshall explain why probability-based samples can no longer be considered the informative data quality heuristic. 1/n
📢Introducing 1776: Views from the British World! Timed to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence that launched a revolution that created the USA, this series complicates traditional narratives of this event by situating it in a larger British world context.
Did anybody else get an unusual spike in academia.edu searches in the last few day? (Unusual = much more than usual, many don't specify city, many only 2 minutes apart.)
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Congress has far more power over the Supreme Court than most people realize — and that includes the ability to set term limits for the justices. bit.ly/4wkTlDK
Want Supreme Court Term Limits? Here’s How to Do It
The Brennan Center has laid out a compelling roadmap for Congress to follow.
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JREP’s second issue for 2026 is now available online and the entire issue is fully open access! We are thrilled that these articles will be available to a wider audience. The second issue for 2026 is also JREP’s first double special issue! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Latest issue | Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics | Cambridge Core
Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
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Interested in the effects of the D'Hondt formula, malapportionment and electoral geography? All you wanted to know about the partisan bias in proportional representation, just published in @govandopp.bsky.social : www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
President Trump's speech tonight will reportedly focus on debunked conspiracies about the 2020 election. Election security expert Lawrence Norden was on @ms.now to explain why claims about foreign interference in 2020 don't hold water.
'Effort to cherry pick classified info': Fmr. U.S. attorney on Trump's speech
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"Aspirational autocrats do not suffer total defeat these days. They may be voted out of office, but they still retain substantial popular support. Autocrats today regroup and come back." muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
In recent years, government files related to Ethel and Julius Rosenberg’s execution have been declassified, and the sons they left behind have had to make sense of the revelations. Not all of them have been easy to accept, Amy Weiss-Meyer reports:
The Rosenberg Boys
When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed by the U.S. government, they left behind two sons, ages 6 and 10. All these years later, Robby and Michael are still trying to make sense of what happened.
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In other words, there is no knowing without knowers, scholarship is a giant conversation in which we speak with our colleagues sometimes slowly (in papers) sometimes faster (Q&A sessions of talks). It is not the accumulation of "facts". We get into this some in this episode, with MJ and Lisa: >>
Episode 31: Science Is a Human Endeavor (feat. Molly Crockett and Lisa Messeri), April 15 2024 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000
Will AI someday do all our scientific research for us? Not likely. Drs. Molly Crockett and Lisa Messeri join for a takedown of the hype of "self-driving labs" and why such misrepresentations also harm...
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When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money". But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings: doi.org/10.1093/9780...
The emergency meeting was surreal and its topic unthinkable: Is America now a threat? When Europe realized there was no going back. 🔗 on.wsj.com/44rirEv
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Over 200 democracy scholars call on Congress to end single-member Congressional districts and adopt proportional representation
More than 200 political scientists, legal scholars, and historians released an open letter calling on Congress to reject the United States’ winner-take-all elections.
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one must, as they say, read theory press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Hollow Parties
A major history from the Founding to our embittered present that “explains the void” (Politico) at the center of America’s political partiesFeatured on The Ezra Klein Show and The Weekly Show with Jon...
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🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 5 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/w6DcW
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Weak Parties on Display: The Democrats’ Platner Problem James Joyner has already provided the background on the current rape allegations being leveled at the ostensible Democratic nominee for US Senate in Maine,… https://outsidethebeltway.com/weak-parties-on-display-the-democrats-platner-problem/
Are visual strategies distinctive to populism? Francesco Melito & @mattiazulianello.bsky.social examine how political parties’ comms teams strategise, based on original interviews with professionals working directly with Italian parties. Read more: buff.ly/7SqIIPP @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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Die Linke pulled off a surprise win in Germany’s most recent federal election and has suddenly become one of the most closely watched parties in Europe’s progressive politics. Behind the success lies a continuing structural transformation of its geographic support base. A short thread🧵
Joseph Weizenbaum's 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason, has long been out of print - used copies sell for hundreds of dollars. It's wild that this is not more widely available given how much his ideas still apply to the world we're in now. 🧵/
