Super excited to be in a vibrant and student-focused community that prioritizes both teaching and research. #Big ideas live here #Don't underestimate the undergraduates

Excited to see this open-access at American Political Science Review! And grateful it recently received the APSA Democracy & Autocracy award for best paper presented at APSA last year. It asks: when do powerful, politicized militaries show restraint towards mass protests? 🧵 bit.ly/44w9cRp

How do Facebook and Instagram feeds impact political beliefs? William & Mary Government and Data Science Professor Jaime Settle helped answer that question as part of research collaboration with Meta. news.wm.edu/2023/07/28/is-…

Good move. But it's still important to call Niger's coup a "coup," to help delegitimize it. In surveys 🇪🇬🇹🇳🇩🇿 we found that public support for the military removing the president fell by 15-50 percentage points when labelled a coup. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… Democratization

Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega Yes. Have done so many times and will do so in the future. If you are building on someone else's work, using their dataset, or testing a hypothesis derived from their theory, how do you not cite them? Asshole or not, you have to cite them.

Dictators who "genderwash" often win praise abroad. But at home, populations are wary of legitimizing the regime. w/o public buy-in, these reforms prove brittle + ineffective. w/ Yuree Noh M. Tahir Kilavuz Long: American Political Science Review cambridge.org/core/journals/… Short: brookings.edu/articles/does-…

Happy to see FT's "The Big Read" focus on China's role in global governance. Good data viz. Good for class next week! Engages our 2022 book, Banking on Beijing. Axel Dreher Austin Strange Andreas Fuchs, AidData ft.com/content/8ac52f…

This tweet sums up well the imbalanced regime of constitutionalism (coups-illegal; rigging elections-shoulder shrug) that the African Union has supported since its founding—and which has led to neither democracy nor an end to coups. For more see 👇 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

GRI August newsletter is packed with research updates. New book on the military in politics from Sharan Grewal, new report from AidData forecasting China's overseas Navy bases, articles from Marcus Holmes, Philip Roessler, Dr. Kelebogile Zvobgo (she/her), Carrie Dolan, and volunteer opportunities!

Properly shading each state based on 2024 election results, the U.S. is a far more purple place than it at first appears.

Thanks to the Global Research Institute William & Mary Global Research Institute William & Mary for hosting a wonderful visit and seminar discussion on fast payment systems and financial inclusion #UPI

Over the last decade, there has been a lot of great research on perceptions of foreign aid in aid receiving countries. Here is a 🧵with some relevant references on foreign aid and soft power.

The consistency of these results showing foreign aid increases American influence in the world is striking. Critical to take into account when discussing foreign aid policy.

Hard to argue with the WSJ editorial page.

It is absolutely a constitutional crisis. The president has zero legal authority to "shut down," defund, or otherwise cripple a $50 billion agency. Audit it, identify unnecessary expenditures, draft reform or rescission proposals, and then go to Congress to PASS A LAW.

What will be the consequences of destroying the U.S. foreign aid infrastructure? I review the evidence about foreign aid and attitudes toward donor countries in a new Good Authority post. goodauthority.org/news/ending-us…

again, what’s so awesome about this chase is that it isn’t some sad slog from an aging player on a losing team. at 39, Ovi has 26 goals in 38 games & the caps are stunningly running away with the East

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NEW: Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/

Foreign Aid is not charity. We must make sure it is well spent, but it is less than 1% of budget & critical to our national security.