ššØ I posted 11 new chapters of my upcoming book! Model to Meaning: How to Interpret Statistical Results with #marginaleffects#RStatsmarginaleffects.com
Idk if it's time for official workposting, but: We are building a thing and I am proud of the folks doing it with me. I'm also excited about what this means for helping the next leaders and best learn tools of policy analysis. We now have a webpage. It is here: fordschool.umich.edu/policy-analy...
A supportive learning initiative to equip every student with the confidence to use policy analysis for the public good.Policy analysis is a tool everyone can use to create effective public policy.
It appears as though Israeli troops have breached a peacekeeping compound and are firing smoke rounds at UN peacekeepers. www.bbc.com/news/live/c8...
Yesterday, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) said a fifth peacekeeper was injured in southern Lebanon on Friday.
Even propagating the idea of organized, coercive voter intimidation is dangerous, and monitoring things like this is one of the reasons I volunteered to be a poll observer for this election.
Disturbing undercover recordings reveal how MAGA is considering using armed thugs to make sure Trump wins next month.
The Trump ally explains how to ensure the former president returns to office in undercover footage from liberal documentarian Lauren Windsor
A summary of my recent work w/ @karinkitchens.bsky.social@thejop.bsky.socialwww.npr.org/2023/08/03/1...)
ā What explains variation in rates of political office-holding by marginalized groups? Megan A. Stewart & Karin E. Kitchens find that counties with "contraband camps" produced almost twice as many Black political leaders as similar counties without a camp ā¬ļø jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/how-contraba...
Over the past several years, U.S. elected officials and candidates have grown increasingly diverse. The most recent midterm elections were considered to have some of the most diverse candidates in sev...
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Come be my colleague! The Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan is conducting a search for a senior-level international policy scholar. The ad for the position is here: apply.interfolio.com/148203 Feel free to reach out if you have questions!
Only a tiny portion of Black Americans were granted the land they were owed after the civil war. And then, almost immediately, the government took it back. Hereās where the people, and the land, ended up. Remarkable investigative reporting from the Reveal folks here:
40ACRES AND A LIE A government program gave formerly enslaved people land after the Civil War, only to take nearly all of it back a year and a half later. We used artificial intelligence to track down...
Lebanon's best farmland is in the south. The use of white phosphorus there is going to cause crop failures, worsening food insecurity in a country marred by economic crisis. These border skirmishes have also displaced 100,000 civilians.
New @HRW report on Israelās widespread use of white phosphorus in southĀ Lebanon: www.hrw.org/news/2024/06...
Israel's widespread use of white phosphorus in south Lebanon is putting civilians at grave risk and contributing to civilian displacement. Human Rights Watch verified the use of white phosphorus munit...