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This is now a classic example of why govt elites and media allies can never be allowed to set the terms of free speech under the law. Given the power they will use it for their own objectives, there is no other way to be a politician. And the public was worse off for it.

Cool review. I’ve been deeply inspired by David’s work for many years, so it’s a real honor to have him engage with mine.

This program does not threaten academic freedom. This post is long and in the weeds but I have thought a lot about this program and others like it, as chair of the academic senate committees on academic freedom both at Berkeley and (this year) for the UC system. First, on

I agree with this, and it makes it much harder to argue against diversity objectives in faculty hiring on the grounds of academic freedom. AF problems are very clear when campus admin is telling the faculty the criteria they must use in faculty searches. Doing so substitutes

This is a key point about DEI and academic freedom. A lot of academia’s focus on identity comes from faculty themselves, who believe these are major social issues that scholarship needs to understand. It doesn’t come from admin saying you must have thus and such priorities. In

This is important work. Somewhat related, one thing I always wondered about work on extremism penalties is, how to better account for strategic choice of platforms by candidates. If candidates chose to maximize e(vote share), then any randomly assigned deviation should make

At a personal level I find Elon Musk neither interesting nor bothersome. I am willing to believe he is good at some things. But the set of things that is consistent with the data is getting smaller and smaller.

The Berkeley Center for American Democracy is hiring a predoc next year. Please encourage any students interested in PhD study in political science to apply!

Oh you think you can just have a model of elections? That pales in comparison to my strategy, having a slightly more complicated model of elections.

Academics ideologically censoring each other vs. the government censoring academics are different problems. Both are bad, one is worse.

I'm super-pro-historical approaches in political analysis, but it's easy to confuse "a person using this approach said something prescient" with "this approach guides you to say prescient things." I guess what I'm saying is we need an RCT to evaluate methods.

In light of Trump making the 3rd term comments, I thought it would be interesting to revisit the broader data on term limit evasion attempts. In 2020, Mila Versteeg (UVA Law) and I worked with law students to collect data on strategies incumbents use to circumvent term limits /1

When you resist autocrats so hard you acknowledge allegiance to the Stuart kings

Our final CPRP presentation by Clair Yang at Univ. of Washington THIS Friday (Apr. 18)! She is presenting an interesting model of institutionalized autocracy! Sean Gailmard and Victor Shih are our discussants. See below for details: chinesepoliticsresearchinprogress.com/schedule/

When you love democracy but hate the demos