Assistant Prof. of PoliSci @BryantUniv | Institutions & Representation | @UMDgvpt PhD | @UTKnoxville & @honorsutk Alumnus
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It has been 13 years since @dbroockman and I conducted our first experiment together. Happy Bar Mitzvah to this paper!
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Well, this is exciting forthcoming news from @TonyMadonna5 and Michael Lynch! Sept 2025. Hopefully Tony will give us the big cover reveal soon!
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Voters reward politicians who sponsor bills they agree with that have no chance of passage:
preprints.apsanet.org/engage…
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For those interested, David Mayhew has compiled the next update to his significant laws dataset, covering the 118th Congress of 2023-2024.
works.bepress.com/david-mayh…
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A forthcoming paper in @The_JOP by Charles Hunt of @BoiseState and Kristina Miler of @UMDGVPT examines how lawmakers advertise their legislative effectiveness to constituents: thelawmakers.org/legislative…
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Do you want to see how much the margin in a pre-election poll can vary based on "reasonable" decisions by a pollster? Check this out: disq.us/t/4rd8rfy
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#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal -
Civic Organizations and the Political Participation of Cross-Pressured Americans: The Case of the Labor Movement - cup.org/4gKHIyb
- @awh
#FirstView
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Excited that my paper, "Descriptive Representation in an Era of Polarization," is forthcoming at the Journal of Politics! This project started as a very rough draft in my first semester of grad school, and after many rewrites, it's finally out! journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
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Excited to share new work w/ @colinrcase
We produce issue-specific estimates for the left-right policy positions of congressional candidates
Parts of this project are now under contract w/ CUP's Elements in Quant Methods 🥳 --- feedback welcome!!
osf.io/preprints/osf/zhrmv
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FOR THE WONKS: Like her predecessors, VP Kamala Harris will need to run up the score in the popular vote to defeat Donald Trump in the Electoral College?
But by how much?
Read my piece for @nationaljournal (and it's free!)
nationaljournal.com/s/726162…
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I wonder what part of the argument you agree or disagree with? Our arguments about calibration are directly applicable to your "bet" standard. Regardless of who won that bet we still wouldn't know who was a better forecaster, which is our point!
Unfortunately this offer doesn't apply now because the forecast is so close to 50/50, but always happy to bet for real $$$ against boring academics who can't model for shit and say stuff like that election forecasting is impossible.
politico.com/news/magazine/2…
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“Coalitional lobbying may be even more effective when addressing entrenched policy issues requiring more technical expertise or when directed at agencies experiencing stopgap budgeting.”
Read FULL article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
#PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal
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BSOS Terps, we’re celebrating you today! We are so proud of our newest #UMD alumni! Photo by Associate Dean Katherine Russell.
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Congratulations to @GVPTUMD Professor @SarahCroco, who was recently inducted into @PhiKappaPhi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines!
Learn more at hglo.umd.edu/aboutus/news
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🍼Growth in abortion-rights organizations encourages anti-abortion group formation. Anti-abortion actors follow a counter-mobilization logic--they are not first movers.
▶️@thighto1 and the Energy-Stability-Area (ESA) model in 👉 cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView #OpenAccess
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#OpenAccess from @PSRMjournal -
The population ecology of interest groups and counter-mobilization: reproductive rights organizations in the United States, 1920–1985 - cup.org/3SsIHJC
- @thighto1
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Now that the ink is dry, I am excited to say that I've accepted an offer to join the faculty as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at @BryantUniv next fall after I finish my PhD at @GVPTUMD! I owe more people my gratitude in getting to this point than I could possibly list here.
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✨🐢Grad Student Highlight 🐢✨
Tristan M. Hightower @thighto1 is a PhD candidate studying the context of issue spaces to explain political activities of interest groups in the U.S. His work is published or forthcoming in outlets like @PSRMJournal @IGA_journal and @PRQjournal.
