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Now out in first view at American Political Science Review, "Minority Party Capacity in Congress" with Jim Curry. Link and thread below: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Oh, to have the confidence of an economist talking about politics.

How much does a Trump endorsement help GOP candidates? “Early indications in Trump endorsements for 2022 suggest they may be even more detrimental than in 2018,” writes SPA's Andy Ballard & Michael Heseltine w/ @hjghassell. Read more via the The Conversation U.S.: bit.ly/3CxwJUR

Hey #poliscitwitter, does anyone know of data accounting for variation in the price of political advertising by congressional district that's updated through at least 2016? Basically an updated version of this Ansolabehere/Gerber/Snyder paper from 2002 scholar.harvard.edu/jsnyder/files/…

Let's say you want to examine how various factors affect the probability of an outcome that the majority party in Congress wants to *keep* from happening. What kind of outcome could you use *other* than rolls/roll rates? #PolisciTwitter

Wonder what else Kavanaugh might have been lying about...

My fiancee doesn't have Twitter but she is extraordinarily smart and wrote this banger of a review for LARB.

"OK Google, what is a collective action problem?"

My new article examining the use of incivility by candidates on Twitter in the 2020 congressional elections. Republicans and non-incumbents tended to be more uncivil. Notably, candidates were also more uncivil when their opponents were also more uncivil. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/WRVMVGI…

Congratulations to SPA Prof. Andy Ballard and PhD candidate Michael Heseltine for winning the 2022 Jewell-Lowenberg Award for the best article on American Politics in Legislative Studies Quarterly (co-authored with @hjghassell)! #SPAProud

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Center for Effective Lawmaking officially welcome and congratulate Andy Ballard of FSU Department of Political Science as one of our newest Faculty Affiliates. Learn more about him here: thelawmakers.org/legislative-re…

Center for Effective Lawmaking are excited to announce our small grant award winners for 2024-2025: Sahar Abi-Hassan, Andy Ballard, Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Dino Christenson, Mackenzie Dobson, Mirya R. Holman, Peter McLaughlin, Emily Cottle Ommundsen, Darrian Stacy, and James Strickland. thelawmakers.org/legislative-re…