I am super excited that my paper on how a UBI affects turnout won the PSRM Journal best paper award! 🎉💥

An understudied topic in IPE.

New piece on China’s rejection of imports now online AJPS with Rebecca Perlman UC Berkeley and Grace Zeng Princeton Politics 👇 “The politics of rejection: Explaining Chinese import refusals”

Thanks Tommaso Crescioli and Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni for organizing! It was a lot of fun to read your work and talk about concentration. I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes from here!

Who is blamed when factories close or when there are mass layoffs? How does blame attribution affect policy preferences? Alexandra Guisinger and I answer these questions in our new article in Political Behavior (rdcu.be/dOhJW). 🧵

Oh my God…this remake of ABBA’s Dancing Queen about JD Vance is absolute genius.

Congratulations to Annamaria Prati, a rising sixth year PhD student, for winning the 2024 APSA Best Poster Award for her poster “Building Peace in Fragile States? UNDP and Violence Mitigation.” Annamaria Prati

Ladies, are you frustrated by politics these days? Come join my colleagues and I and we'll help train you to run your first campaign! empower.wustl.edu

Join us if you'd like to read a fascinating book from Ben Cormier about how governments finance their debt - looking specifically at partisanship and avoidance of lending conditionality from official creditors!

Starting this week with an acceptance of "International Economic Relations and American Support for Antitrust Policy" with Amy Pond. This follows yesterday's FT story, which argues we have reached a tipping point on antitrust and tech companies. ft.com/content/6237d8…

This was such a great conference! Thanks for sharing all your work, especially Flori for sharing her innovative work on economic performance and political engagement!

Great new paper PEIO/RIO RIO showing how partisanship affects disputes: Right governments are more willing to make concessions during ISDS. Thanks to the formidable Haillie Na-Kyung Lee!

🥁CFA! Sichen, Zarlasht, I are organizing a GVC workshop sponsored by Niehaus Center. The submission link with more details is docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…… … . Let us know if you have any questions, and we look forward to your submissions!

Such a pleasure to work with Ryan Brutger! We unpack how global markets affect domestic regulation on antitrust. As markets become more interconnected, Americans are worried that intensified regulation will leave them at a disadvantage against foreign firms.

Please nominate someone, or yourself, for these awards!

I'm excited to share that "Fairness According to Whom? Divergent Perceptions of Fairness among White and Black Americans and Its Effect on Trade Attitudes" coauthored with daniel lobo is now out in American Political Science Review. Daniel wrote a great thread, which I encourage you to read.

We show bipartisan support for antitrust policy, but Republicans and Democrats are concerned about different factors. Dems are more worried about political influence of large firms and Reps are more concerned about punishing successful firms. Funny to post about this on X...