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New York City voters participate in one of the most restrictive electoral systems in the United States—and they are hungry for a change. Our new issue brief by director of cities John Ketcham analyzes MI polling data and describes the reforms most popular with New Yorkers. 🧵

This is a good read on the problems with the RCV primary in NYC and a weird further reform that is being considered.

Correlation between party ID (3-point) and registration, 2012-22. Those registered as “other” are grouped with none/DTS. Data: CES.

New paper. In the 2020 campaign, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Trump took a stance out of line, not only with the public in general, but even with his own voters. It’s been forgotten, but even Trumpers were scared and wanted masks and aggressive gov’t action in 2020. 1/

TRUE. "Reading Banfield is a cure for many temptations to hope or despair, but it’s also the introduction to a grander historical perspective and a broader social observation." And I am delighted to share that AEI press will republish The Unheavenly City Revisited in November!

Good point!

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Which better describes you? Forced choice. A. Vote in primaries but not general elections B. Vote in general elections but not primaries

Even in an election where the identities of the top 2 candidates were well known from gitgo, 50,000 NY's exhausted their ballots

How has the normative turn in social science affected our ability to produce and use theory? Using a case study of punishment studies during/after the normative turn, I find authors are mistaking normativity for theory. Published today in Theory and Society (Springer Nature)! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

I don’t think it’s obvious that AI will destroy college writing. We won’t simply be able to give a large portion of the class grade on the basis of only reading a take home paper, but that doesn’t mean college writing will go away.

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