I said this in my first-year grad research methods class, but it bears repeating. There are people who will tell you that you are not smart enough to understand something. Those people either don't understand the nature of intelligence, don't have your best interests at heart, or both. Ignore them.
Just accepted at JOP w/ Daniel Naftel @kshoub.bsky.social@jarededgerton.bsky.socialwww.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
I’m pleased to announce to #poliskytinyurl.com/48ktz5jc. (1/8)🧵
In case you don't want to watch the debate, but do want to think about elections, you can head over to journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... and check out our new paper on campaign spending (#polisky). We estimate the effects of money at the levels of both the individual campaign and the whole Congress.
Can a political party spend enough across electoral campaigns to garner a majority within the U.S. Congress? Prior research on campaign spending minimizes the importance of campaign heterogeneity and ...
New paper in Nature looking at the direct *and spillover* effects of Twitter deplatforming ~70k accounts following January 6th: - less misinfo for remaining users who had followed deplatformed users to circulate - some remaining users voluntarily exited www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Difference-in-differences analysis indicates that the decision by Twitter to deplatform 70,000 users following the events at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 had wider effects on the spread of mi...
Since the book's on sale ($25 at press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...#poliskydaveasiegel.com/teaching/math-course. It's got 30+ hours of video content, plus practice problems and a sample syllabus.
The Behavioral Models of Politics Conference will be held at the University of Pittsburgh: 5/24-25/24, bringing together scholars to share research about analytical models of “behavioral” concepts in politics. Deadline: 3/1! Apply here: t.ly/eYPpMsites.google.com/view/bmpconf...
Marquette’s Political Science Department is hiring TT in International Political Economy! Come join us! Polisky employment.marquette.edu/postings/20284
For polisky or related fields: If you're looking for an alternative to the two week "math camp" with which many social science programs start, I put together an online, work-at-your-own-pace-over-the-summer version here: daveasiegel.com/teaching/math-course. Happy to answer questions about it.