It was a tremendous pleasure having this conversation with James Ker-Lindsay about secession in America.

James Ker-Lindsay@jameskerlindsay.bsky.social · 3h ago

Could the #UnitedStates break apart? Aside from deep political differences between Red and Blue states, it also has some fascinating separatist movements. It was great to talk about all this with @ryan-griffiths.bsky.social #CalExit #Texit youtu.be/ZmGfSa2gfXQ

🚨New article alert🚨 SUPoliSci profs @emilythorson.bsky.social & Sarah Pralle have a new article leveraging TikTok videos to test trust in govt.

Emily Thorson@emilythorson.bsky.social · yesterday

New article with SU colleague Sarah Pralle. We randomly assign TikTok style news videos portraying a public policy (e.g. Clean Water Act, No Child Left Behind) as a success or failure. Both raise issue importance, but the failure video reduces trust in govt. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New article with SU colleague Sarah Pralle. We randomly assign TikTok style news videos portraying a public policy (e.g. Clean Water Act, No Child Left Behind) as a success or failure. Both raise issue importance, but the failure video reduces trust in govt. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I'm hiring an Associate Director for the Center for Qualitative & Multi-Method Inquiry: www.sujobopps.com/postings/114... Run IQMR, work on QDR, help run events around methods @maxwellsu.bsky.social - great for recent MA or PhD interested in alt-ac 1/2

Associate Director, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry (CQMI)

Work collaboratively with the Director of the Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry (CQMI). Lead the planning and logistics for the annual Institute for Qualitative and Multi-method Research...

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Thrilled to share my new article with @emilythorson.bsky.social has been published @jhppl.bsky.social. While we found null effects of healthcare experiences on policy attitudes, it’s worth considering how this may shift as negative insurance experiences become more salient in public discourse.

Emily Thorson@emilythorson.bsky.social · 2d ago

New article with former SU grad student @emmadreher.bsky.social: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl.... We randomly assign people to recall in detail either interactions with their doctors or interactions with their insurance providers, and find no effect of either on health policy attitudes.

🚨New article alert🚨 new experimental work from @supolisci prof @emilythorson.bsky.social & SU PhD alum @emmadreher.bsky.social on the effect of recalled doctor experience on health policy attitudes.

Emily Thorson@emilythorson.bsky.social · 2d ago

New article with former SU grad student @emmadreher.bsky.social: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl.... We randomly assign people to recall in detail either interactions with their doctors or interactions with their insurance providers, and find no effect of either on health policy attitudes.

🚨New article alert🚨 check out the 🧵 below for the latest article from SU Prof @emilythorson.bsky.social & team on misinformation.

Emily Thorson@emilythorson.bsky.social · 6d ago

Brendan, Jaime, Magdalena, Olivier and I have been working on this paper for six years and it is finally out. Brendan summarized the findings but I wanted to speak to the process/design. We started off wanting to reduce misinfo exposure -- BUT that is challenging because...

Professor Grant Reeher weighs in on the DNC's move to make South Carolina the first 2028 WH primary state and what it could mean, noting a large field could help the more progressive candidates: "A lot depends on how large the field is." https://bit.ly/3U394sv

How South Carolina DNC win could affect democratic socialists' 2028 plans

Democrats' decision to make South Carolina the first primary state fuels debate over which wing of the party stands to benefit.

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I'm developing a taste for small conferences. After @wzb.bsky.social's #MoPED in Berlin last month, I'm getting ready for @politicalnetworks.bsky.social's #POLNET2026, next week in Manchester, to present this paper on "Gendered Informational Inequality in Elite Networks" (available upon request).

Our in-house magazine wrote about IQMR!

Maxwell School@maxwellsu.bsky.social · last wk.

IQMR just wrapped its 16th year at Maxwell: 162 researchers from Yale, Oxford, LSE, Princeton, Columbia, and more, representing every continent except Antarctica. Since 2002, the institute has trained 3,500+ researchers in qualitative and multi-method methods. Read More: https://bit.ly/4fD6G2O

IQMR just wrapped its 16th year at Maxwell: 162 researchers from Yale, Oxford, LSE, Princeton, Columbia, and more, representing every continent except Antarctica. Since 2002, the institute has trained 3,500+ researchers in qualitative and multi-method methods. Read More: https://bit.ly/4fD6G2O

Super review of my new book—out in the US in Sept.—by Michael Sanfey in the Irish Times.

Last day to submit applications for the APSA Graduate Student Member #SupportGrant! The APSA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students offers a support fund to help students with unexpected emergency costs. 📆 Apply Now!

APSA Graduate Student Member Support Grant

The APSA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students offers a support fund to help students with unexpected emergency costs. This fund has a quarterly allocation cycle and funds are limited.

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🚨New article alert🚨 @supolisci.bsky.social prof @sethkjolly.bsky.social & co-authors have a new article out at JOP evaluating expert survey reliability across regions using @chesdata.bsky.social. Check it out open-access at JOP: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Seth Jolly@sethkjolly.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm thrilled to share the latest @chesdata.bsky.social paper "A Global Scale of Economic Left–Right Party Positions: Cross-National and Cross-Expert Perceptions of Party Placements", out now at JOP, where we compare expert ratings from Europe, Latin America, Australia, Israel, Canada, & the US.

Great news for Maxwell: Howard and Louise Phanstiel have given $1M to launch the Dean David M. Van Slyke Endowed Scholarship. 'Democracies need citizens who are informed and engaged,' says Howie. Congrats, Dean Van Slyke, and thank you, Howie and Louise! https://bit.ly/4gB9mjU

My interview with @mobreezy213.bsky.social is up. We talk about his recent primary election win, grassroots organizing in CNY, and more tomkeck.beehiiv.com/p/my-intervi...

My interview with Maurice (Mo) Brown

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Maxwell's Angelie "Angie" Serrano Baéz is the 2026-27 Matthew Ross Wanetik Memorial Scholarship recipient. The award honors a student who died while studying abroad in 2008. https://bit.ly/4frs5Nx

Relevant again, with today’s Morocco 🇲🇦 France 🇫🇷 game.

Mohamed Dhia Hammami@meddhiah.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tuesday, Senegal 🇸🇳 plays France 🇫🇷 , its former colonial ruler, in the World Cup. French police was set on high “vigilance across the territory” (AFP). Why are such post-colonial encounter sensitive ? Answer from a paper I wrote (available on request, previously presented at MPSA)🧵

Is the dollar dominant because of America's economy—or its political and military power? Professor Daniel McDowell weighs in: “In the great global currency debate, market forces have never been more passé and political forces have never been so prominent.” @supolisci.bsky.social

The US Is Relearning an Old Lesson About Dollar Dominance

The question lurking beneath a recent wave of books about the dollar isn’t financial. It’s whether America’s dominance can outlast its politics.

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My paper with Bo Won Kim is out at the Review of International Organizations (doi.org/10.1007/s115...)! If you are interested in the growing role of lawyers in international commerce and how they can shape the design of international cooperation, this paper may be of interest. 🧵

Recently spoke with Ukrainian TV host Maxym Krapivnyy of War & Politics 24 about how Putin sees the current state of the war and what might lead him to negotiate. I can't promise that the content is as dramatic as the image and headline below, alas. Grateful for the invitation.

😱Putin admits failure! You won't believe what's happening in Russia. Kremlin BEGS for a ceasefire

YouTube video by War & Politics 24

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Was on @wwlradio.bsky.social this morning talking with Tommy Tucker about the Russo-Ukraine War, and how Zelensky has been playing some new cards and shifting the momentum of the war. Starts about 1:45 into the clip below.

President Trump thinks we're "getting close" to an end to the Ukraine war. Are we?

Podcast Episode · WWL First News with Tommy Tucker · July 7 · 11m

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What a great show, includes an exclusive interview with me. p.dw.com/p/5GTgO

Albania's Edi Rama on Inside Europe

An exclusive DW interview with Albanian PM Edi Rama, a crackdown on Turkey's opposition ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara, and a spat about who gets to lead the Czech delegation. The US celebrates 25...

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Hope to see you there, ISA friends! @isanet.bsky.social @sibeloktay.bsky.social

International Studies Association@isanet.bsky.social · last mo.

The deadline for the ISA-Midwest 2026 annual conference, to be held 20-22 Nov. at the Hilton at the Ballpark, St. Louis has been EXTENDED to 6 July. We welcome papers, panels, roundtables, posters, & workshops on all topics in international studies. Learn more & submit: buff.ly/r7uQKNF

Very perceptive review. substack.com/@davekeating...

🚨New article alert🚨 Congrats to @supolisci.bsky.social prof @minjulisettekim.bsky.social on her new co-authored article in RIO. See below for more info:

Minju Kim@minjulisettekim.bsky.social · last mo.

My paper with Bo Won Kim is out at the Review of International Organizations (doi.org/10.1007/s115...)! If you are interested in the growing role of lawyers in international commerce and how they can shape the design of international cooperation, this paper may be of interest. 🧵

Trump’s age is a “peripheral issue” when it comes to evaluating his presidency, says Professor Grant Reeher. “Concerns about the administration are not about cognitive decline but rather WHAT he IS doing, in terms of policy, funding and rhetoric,” he says. @supolisci.bsky.social

How Trump's age is shaping his presidency

Donald Trump has turned 80, making him only the second president to reach the milestone while in office.

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In today's post, I survey the presence (and then absence) of militant democracy arguments in U.S. First Amendment law. tomkeck.beehiiv.com/p/militant-d...

Militant democracy in U.S. law

Is Joseph Goebbels's mocking of liberal democracy relevant to First Amendment disputes?

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Subscribe today to get some sneak peaks from my book on free speech and democratic backsliding

Thomas M. Keck@tmksyracuse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Guys I am _this_ close to sending off my book manuscript on free speech & democratic backsliding worldwide. I'm going to use my newsletter to preview some key arguments. Monday's post will focus on the presence (& then absence) of militant democracy arguments in US law tomkeck.beehiiv.com/subscribe