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Do locally elected administrative clerks use their position to advantage their own parties in elections? Using a novel dataset Joshua Ferrer, Igor Geyn, & Dan Thompson find that clerks oversee similar election results, turnout, & policies. #APSRFirstView ow.ly/Bt9V50Q68ok

In a new working paper Abhi Ramaswamy and I provide the most comprehensive evaluation, to date, of the empirical claims made in Trump’s lawsuits after the 2020 election. All of the claims we evaluate fail to provide evidence of fraud or illegal voting. shorturl.at/zEJR2

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please apply to attend the local political economy pre-conference on Sep 4 (wed before APSA). grad students on the market, this is a great place to get quality feedback and meet nice, smart people who may be hiring! forms.gle/o3EKZ4phquWyia… last year’s program for reference:

Just-published research shows that partisan election officials don't appear to favor their own party. New from me Good Authority: goodauthority.org/news/partisan-…

Do locally elected administrative clerks use their position to advantage their own parties in elections? Using a novel dataset Joshua Ferrer, Igor Geyn, & Dan Thompson find that clerks oversee similar election results, turnout, & policies. #APSRNewIssue ow.ly/qoVv50Rpta0

Important new article showing how bad math is used in election conspiracy claims, and how it can be debunked.

Now out in PNAS. Learned a lot about election administration, synthetic control estimators, and Dan Thompson 's boundless energy and creativity in the process. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Excited to share a review article written with guido imbens: “LaLonde (1986) after Nearly Four Decades: Lessons Learned” in which we summarized 5 main advancements in recent years. arxiv.org/abs/2406.00827 1/8

In American Political Science Review, Joshua Ferrer, Igor Geyn & Dan Thompson find in 5,900 elections that counties narrowly electing Democratic election administrators saw election administration outcomes very similar to counties narrowly electing Republicans. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Introducing a new collaboration with partners at Stanford University today: please welcome the #ElectionsPerformance Central! Read up on it in this week's electionline, and check out the website: elexcentral.org

Investigate the veracity of fraud claims in the 2020 election with guest Justin Grimmer in this week's episode of #NotAnotherPoliticsPodcast. Listen here: har.rs/3NnteXM Center for Effective Government at UChicago

No, survey evidence does not support the idea that Americans think political violence is ok (pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…, dropbox.com/scl/fi/vzjn03s…) . No, there is not going to be a civil war in America after this election. And, for goodness sake, Texas isn't going to become a

Interested in gaining practical experience doing research on mitigating political polarization and conflict before pursuing a PhD? If so, we're hiring! Come work with me and an fantastic inter-disciplinary team of Stanford faculty in our Conflict and Polarization Initiative!