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New online Bart Bonikowski (NYU) Kristina Bakkær Simonsen (Aarhus) explore (thru survey experiments) in US/Denmark impact of "moralizing" rhetoric on immigration policy opinions. Find rhetoric solidifies **but doesn't change** attitudes. Imp for polarization debate journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

So American Political Science Review have written an interesting piece on what makes submitting there different to submitting to a 'subfield journal' such as, well, Comparative Political Studies (which they mention). I have some thoughts as editor of aforementioned subfield journal... cambridge.org/core/journals/…

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: 2022 Graduate Student Workshop The Democracy and Autocracy Section of the (APSA) is pleased to announce a Call for Applications from graduate students who are interested in participating in a workshop at the 2022 APSA Annual Meeting. 1/

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: 2022 Emerging Scholars Workshop for early-career scholars working on Democracy and Autocracy The Democracy and Autocracy Section of the (APSA) is pleased to announce a Call for Applications from early-career scholars in developing countries. 1/

Op-Ed: What will it take for Germany, Europe's heavyweight, to stand up to Russia? - by @AnnaGBusse latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Agree - we tried a "preregistration" trial run at CPS and found the costs outweigh the benefits

UMN is hiring TT in comparative politics. Deadline 9/25. For info and to apply, go to hr.umn.edu/Jobs/Find-Job, job opening ID 351091. (Ad not posted on APSA ejobs yet, should be soon.)

Here's how it appears to have gone down. FBI, for months: You have classified documents. Please turn them over. Trump: Make me. FBI, finally: (Sigh) Okay.

Very excited to see my paper with Timm out at CPS! (open access) We argue that: Political turnover prompts newly politically connected individuals to take, and newly disconnected individuals to cede, ownership of firms. (thread 1/5) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

“Nice religion you have here. It would be a shame if something happened to it.”

After how many years, achievement unlocked? Copy editor of forthcoming article said "It was a huge pleasure to read your work on this fascinating (albeit worrying) topic." Usually I just argue w/copy eds about commas and capitalization...?

I wrote a little thing w my student Karine Belarmino about why Lula likely *won't* have to worry about polarization with evangelical leaders & their supporters latinoamerica21.com/en/lula-vs-eva…

Punch line of my new PoP piece, which examines US, EU & Vatican: "Changes in international politics has left democracy with weaker ideational support in the global arena, potentially facilitating backsliding." buff.ly/3Z8PeKG

Anyone teaching Intro CP/Institutions: what's going on in Israel now is a perfect ex of reform of "judicial review" into its opposite, "parliamentary supremacy," and a rare ex of substantial change in nature of separation of powers (and, most countries moved other way since WWII)