Hannah Walker
@hlw.bsky.social
mobilizedbyinjustice.com Political Scientist UT Austin
With fewer than 100 days until the midterms, a shameless plug: If you want to understand just how much our systems of electoral democracy have been degraded, especially for racial and ethnic minorities, you could do worse than preordering our book. Out Oct 6! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Excited to share this new book by @asilvaphd.bsky.social "Direct Democracy Rules" (best title) examines how propositions, initiatives, and referendums shape state immigration policy and changed the role of citizens in immigration policymaking. Here's a discount code! GO! NOW!
Huge fan of this project!
Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium@priec.bsky.social · 3mo ago7. When Exclusion Mobilizes: Institutional Design, Collective Action, & Pol Participation under Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Sonja Castaneda Dower, UChicago Q: How to pol voice when institutional channels are closed? A: Exclusion rechannels pol effort to consolidate alt institutions #PRIEC
FWIW, I'm interviewing people who experienced ICE in MN and it's not surprising to me that they didn't react with voter reg + pol donations. People are disenchanted with mainstream politics, spending spare $ on rent funds + buying groceries for neighbors. Mobilized by injustice a la @hlw.bsky.social
John Holbein@johnholbein1.bsky.social · 3mo agoICE is everywhere. In 2022, ICE made arrests in 30% of counties. In 2025, ICE made arrests in 62% of counties. We ask: Do ICE arrests spark political action? Theory and prior evidence suggest it should. We find that ICE activity mostly does not mobilize citizens.
📢📢DEADLINE APPROACHING!!!!📢📢 1/2 Justice & Injustice @ Columbia October 29 - 30, 2026 Application deadline May 1! Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Justice and Injustice 2026: Criminal Justice conference proposal submission
To learn more about the conference, please see our website. The Justice and Injustice 2026 conference will be held October 29-30, 2026 at Columbia. It will be co-organized by Andrew McCall, Allison...
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One week until the submission deadline for Justice & Injustice conference---tell your friends, and get those proposals in! Papers, posters, research designs, we do it all 💯
Hannah Walker@hlw.bsky.social · 4mo agoWho: @arielrwhite.bsky.social @allipatter.bsky.social & #AndrewMcCall What: Small conference on the politics of crime and punishment When: October 29 - 30, 2026 Where: Columbia Application deadline: May 1, 2026 2/4
Hey y'all! Deadline for this post-doc is FRIDAY!!! Don't miss it!
Hannah Walker@hlw.bsky.social · 4mo agoWell I'm full of opportunities to circulate today! We're hiring a post-doc at UT in political behavior/democratic representation. Deadline is April 10 (quick turn around!) Tell your friends, job posting here: utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...
Re-upping this for the AM crowd!! CFP for Justice & Injustice 2026 now open, tell your friends!!
Hannah Walker@hlw.bsky.social · 4mo ago📢 📢 FRIENDS CURRENT & FUTURE!! 📢📢 The application for the 9th installment of Justice & Injustice is now open!!!! Briefly, deadline is May 1, application is here, further details below: 1/4 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Well I'm full of opportunities to circulate today! We're hiring a post-doc at UT in political behavior/democratic representation. Deadline is April 10 (quick turn around!) Tell your friends, job posting here: utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...
Postdoctoral Fellow: Political Behavior and/or Democratic Representation
Job Posting Title: Postdoctoral Fellow: Political Behavior and/or Democratic Representation ---- Hiring Department: Department of Government ---- Position Open To: All Applicants ---- Weekly Scheduled...
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📢 📢 FRIENDS CURRENT & FUTURE!! 📢📢 The application for the 9th installment of Justice & Injustice is now open!!!! Briefly, deadline is May 1, application is here, further details below: 1/4 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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My quick take after reading FBI's Fulton County affidavit: it's a bunch of discredited recycled BS peddled for years by election deniers and it's appalling that a judge signed off on a warrant for the raid based on the "evidence" presented here
Ari Berman@ariberman.bsky.social · 6mo agoAffidavit for Fulton County FBI raid is out & begins with massive red flag, noting that "criminal investigation originated from referral sent by Kurt Olsen, [Trump's] Director of Election Security & Integrity" Olsen was leader of 'Stop the Steal' in 2020 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Looks extremely cool #PRIEC
Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium@priec.bsky.social · 6mo agoKicking off the #ASUPRIEC program is ASU undergrad María Blandón. Argument: pol knowledge research lacks theory, measures of know how relevant in street politics, like ICE ambushing people en route to school, work, church, or home. Blandón shares new metric of Knowledge Your Rights Literacy 1/2
Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium@priec.bsky.social · 6mo agoIt’s that time!! #ASUPRIEC, Tempe , AZ. We’ll post highlights of presentations from the program. Shout out to team @asuclapr.bsky.social at @arizonastateuni.bsky.social who organized a great program and a roundtable on redistricting & elections.
Crime is decreasing across the country despite a police-staffing crisis, Henry Grabar reports. He explores what might be responsible for the trend:
The Great Crime Decline Is Happening All Across the Country
Even cities with understaffed police departments have made record gains.
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the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?
Ryan Broderick@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 7mo agoTrump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms. www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget." Public Universities FTW!
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This sounds less like a grievance and more like a practical how-to for junior scholars!
Julie Novkov@jnovkov.bsky.social · 8mo agoI can read the CV, look up the cite count, and see the journal titles myself. What I need you to do as an external reviewer is situate the candidate's work in the field and evaluate the scholarship's quality and contributions.
Clear evidence that at universities conservatives don't face higher obstacles than liberals to establish student groups + invite outside speakers. "These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."
Survey experiments have become a popular methodology among social scientists. Has it been effective? In POQ, Rauf et al. study the efficacy of 100 survey experiments. Their results show that a majority of hypotheses were not supported. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
Officially out with @mayasen.bsky.social! We find defendants assigned to former public defenders are less likely to be incarcerated, providing insight into the relationship between criminal legal disparities and judicial characteristics. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
How Judges’ Professional Experience Impacts Case Outcomes: An Examination of Public Defenders and Criminal Sentencing | The Journal of Politics: Vol 88, No 1
Do judges’ professional backgrounds affect their rulings? We investigate this question by looking at the impact of judges’ public defender experience on sentencing. Leveraging thousands of sentences, ...
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This morning at @thejop.bsky.social blog, Mike and I discuss our new paper on the effects of getting the Voting Rights Act on the turnout gap — and what it might mean for the case before the Court right now. A preview in some ways of our book, out next fall! ubwp.buffalo.edu/jopblog/2025...
How the Supreme Court Exploded the Racial Turnout Gap – The Journal of Politics Blog
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Check out this outstanding opportunity to be mentorwd by the one and only @allipatter.bsky.social!! (w/ guest appearances from myself & @arielrwhite.bsky.social!)
Allison P. Harris@allipatter.bsky.social · 8mo agoI’m hiring a predoctoral fellow for the 2026-2027 AY with possibility of a second year. This is a great position for someone interested in pursuing a Ph.D. or who wants more hands-on experience doing research. Please apply/share! Happy to answer questions! tobin.yale.edu/opportunitie...
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New research finds mass shootings may increase voter turnout and support for gun reform initiatives in the United States, but the effect is hyperlocalized near the incidents. Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/4qYXFWP
The effect of mass shootings on voter turnout in the United States
Following mass shootings, localized voter turnout increases, as does support for a gun reform ballot initiative.
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Texas universities deploy AI tools to review and rewrite how some courses discuss race and gender www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
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Minority Power "Marginalized groups develop sophisticated alternative conceptualizations of power as collective resistance, cultural preservation and mutual aid that enable transformation despite structural disadvantages." #SocialPsyc
John Drury@profjohndrury.bsky.social · 8mo agoRedefining power in social psychology bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
