Anyone have any calculations on how much gerrymandering helped/hurt each party in the House?
Grant Mitchell
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Ph.D student at UCLA studying regime change, parties, and party systems.
The probability your vote being decisive is actually pretty high apparently
Serbian President Vucic announced he’ll resign after 18 months of student protests. That’s Bangladesh, Nepal, Madagascar, Bulgaria, Hungary, and now Serbia, all in the past two years. Anti-corruption is the most potent force for positive political change right now. The US remains ripe.
Serbian President Vucic says he will resign within weeks
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday he would resign within weeks and the country will hold early presidential and parliamentary elections, following 18 months of anti-government prote...
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Hungarian President Sulyok has signed the 17th Amendment to the constitution therefore removing himself from office. It’s been amazing to watch. Orban's Fidesz has been falling apart before our eyes. 🧵
OUT NOW!!! with Cambridge University Press: The Far Right in Latin America, co-edited with Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Carlos Meléndez, Talita Tanscheit & me. @ceudeminst.bsky.social Open Access on Cambridge Core. www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...
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We compare the two most widely used approaches to populism, the ideational approach (which emphasizes populist ideas) and the political-strategic approach (which emphasizes party organizational features). We find across a variety of tests that the former outperforms the latter. 2/4
New paper out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social by Kirk Hawkins, Saskia Ruth-Lovell, and me. We push past whether populist chief executives erode democratic and liberal institutions and ask WHY it is they attack liberal democracy. 1/4
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TL;DR: The ideational approach to populism is far superior to the political-strategic approach at explaining democratic backsliding.
Grant Mitchell@grantmitchell.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew paper out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social by Kirk Hawkins, Saskia Ruth-Lovell, and me. We push past whether populist chief executives erode democratic and liberal institutions and ask WHY it is they attack liberal democracy. 1/4
New paper out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social by Kirk Hawkins, Saskia Ruth-Lovell, and me. We push past whether populist chief executives erode democratic and liberal institutions and ask WHY it is they attack liberal democracy. 1/4
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Calling it here. England is gonna know what it's like to blow a 3-1 lead
Shienbaum needs to call FIFA to urge them to remove these goal
Folarin Balogun will be available to play the USMNT’s round of 16 match against Belgium, with his one-game red-card ban that he received against Bosnia and Herzegovina suspended.
LeBron can cement his legacy by taking his talents to Detroit and winning a title for the Pistons... please
One thing I love about Telemundo is that they don't tone down the crowd noise as much as English language channels. Makes it feel more alive.