🚨 New paper with Jie Ma and @keithschnak.bsky.social: Democratic Accountability with Citizen Coproduction As always: read it, cite it, love it! Link: osf.io/preprints/os...
Ian Turner
@ianrturner.bsky.social
Political Scientist | Political Institutions | Political Economy | Formal Theory | Pittsburgh Partisan
🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵
Might know some people with papers on dark money 👀
Rightly hasn't been central to the discussion surrounding the EO but it's interesting that they state they'd like to crack down on foreign money when in practice there's no way to do this without passing some dark money regulations
Excited for this new Element in Gender in Politics. Download it for free now 🥳 www.cambridge.org/core/element...
What's Happened to the Gender Gap in Political Activity?
Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - What's Happened to the Gender Gap in Political Activity?
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Dark Money and Politician Learning (w/ @keithschnak.bsky.social) now online at @thejop.bsky.social: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Dark Money and Politician Learning | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
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Some thoughts on early executive action, and Trump's likely flood thereof, in @goodauth.bsky.social. Among other things: issuing a "record setting" number of Day 1 executive orders will not be very hard. goodauthority.org/news/trump-e...
Executive orders under U.S. presidents – and Trump 2.0.
Executive orders by U.S. presidents, from Franklin Roosevelt to Joe Biden. What EOs will Trump issue in his first week?
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I’m excited to share DIME v4.0 is live! This release covers through the 2024 cycle and contains records for 850M+ itemized political contributions and ideological scores for millions of candidates, PACs, and donors. stanford.io/3DJDCYm
Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections (DIME): Public version 4.0
Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections (DIME): Public version 4.0
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Very happy this is out! I'm very proud of this paper. As always: read it, cite it, love it!
The institutional foundations of the power to persuade by Carlo Prato and Ian R. Turner is now available in Early View. @carloprato.bsky.social ajps.org/2024/12/10/t...
The institutional foundations of the power to persuade by Carlo Prato and Ian R. Turner is now available in Early View. @carloprato.bsky.social ajps.org/2024/12/10/t...
Where Ian Turner and I argue that weakening congressional oversight may actually undermine presidential attempts to influence bureaucrats
The institutional foundations of the power to persuade by Carlo Prato and Ian R. Turner is now available in Early View. @carloprato.bsky.social ajps.org/2024/12/10/t...
Congratulations, @ianrturner.bsky.social for receiving one of this year's Poorvu Innovation Awards in recognition of his excellence in teaching. news.yale.edu/2024/02/12/f...
Four junior faculty members receive this year’s Poorvu Innovation
The award recognizes excellence in teaching in undergraduate programs and enables recipients to dedicate their summer to research.
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New paper with Ben Noble: "Presidential Leadership and Legislative Polarization." We study incentives for presidents to "go public" to influence legislative policymaking across various political environments. As always, read it, cite it, love it! osf.io/preprints/soca…
APSA Formal Theory Section Awards Get your nominations (self-nominations encouraged) by MARCH 1. Send nominations straight to the committee.
New paper with Hannah Simpson: "Guilt and Pleading Guilty": osf.io/h9wnd To shamelessly tie it to current events, consider the following: most criminal cases are settled by plea bargaining, and the evidence against Sam Bankman-Fried was overwhelming. So why did he go to trial?
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Join me for my hackathon where I teach you how to reconvert Mathematica output to positive numbers when using FullSimplify
I'm hiring a predoctoral fellow! The fellow will work with me on my solo projects and with me @hlw.bsky.social and Ariel White on collaborative projects. Please share with colleagues, friends, and potentially interested students and reach out with questions! tobin.yale.edu/opportunitie...
Planning your Spring syllabi? Doing research on special interest politics? Need some sick theory in your life? @keithschnak.bsky.social and I got you: osf.io/preprints/so... As always: read it, *cite it*, love it
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