Formal Political Theory Research

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[Formal Political Theory Research @FormalTheory]

Make sure to get your award nominations in by MARCH 1!

[Ian Turner @ianRturner]

APSA FORMAL THEORY SECTION AWARDS

See picture below for information---get your nominations in by MARCH 1st (and please self-nominate!) Email nominations directly to committee.

[Jacob Montgomery (@jacobmontgomery.bsky.social) @Jacob_Montg]

Are you hiring this in political science and/or the computational social sciences? Then I have good news for you. Because @WUSTLPoliSci has 🎉 ‼️ 🔥FOUR AMAZING STUDENTS 🎉 ‼️ 🔥 on the market this year.

Read on and I'll tell you more about them (in alphabetical order).

[Ian Turner @ianRturner]

🚨 Revised draft of "Institutional Foundations of the Power to Persuade" with @carloprato_ 🚨

Highlights: Greater focus on core implications; Broader understandings of the model and clarity on robustness (AND MORE!)

As always: read it, cite it, love it!
https://t.co/ws0EuEhUQz

[Ian Turner @ianRturner]

Now available online at Annual Review of Political Science: "Formal Theories of Special Interest Influence" with @keithschnak (https://t.co/oBblXoS3UD)

As always, read it, cite it, love it.

[John Patty @jwpatty]

Applications for 2024 @EITM_Institute at @emorycollege are open. NSF funded grad workshop for all subfields of political science. Applications due on 3/824. More info and application link here: https://t.co/qKdjqRsTBm @FormalTheory @PolMethSociety

[Formal Political Theory Research @FormalTheory]

Make sure to get your award nominations in by MARCH 1!

[Ian Turner @ianRturner]

New @FormalTheory paper with @jwpatty: "Strange Bedfellows: How the Need for Good Governance Shapes Budgetary Control of Bureaucracy": https://t.co/odIdXmcCAY

Not gonna write a long thread, but as always read it, cite it, love it!

[Ian Turner @ianRturner]

APSA FORMAL THEORY SECTION AWARDS

See picture below for information---get your nominations in by MARCH 1st (and please self-nominate!) Email nominations directly to committee.

[Ian Turner @ianRturner]

Updated draft of my paper with @carloprato_ "Institutional Foundations of the Power to Persuade" (https://t.co/ws0EuEhUQz)

We think it's a much better version!

As usual, read it, cite it, love it..

Read Carlo's original thread on the main points here: https://t.co/WIGQMuXNC9

[Ian Turner @ianRturner]

🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨
@keithschnak and I just posted a draft of our ARPS article "Theories of Special Interest Influence" (https://t.co/zKg7GI45V8).

In it we present the logic of exchange-based, informational, and subsidy-based models of political influence.

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[Formal Political Theory Research @FormalTheory]

Just a couple days left!

[Formal Political Theory Research @FormalTheory]

🚨🚨 AWARD SEASON🚨🚨
The Formal Theory Section of @APSAtweets gives out four awards annually. Deadline: March 1. Nominate your favorite papers here: https://t.co/4wQ5Lyj8xQ. Self nominations encouraged! Non-members: please consider joining! More info: https://t.co/HtbLakfjP0

[Formal Political Theory Research @FormalTheory]

Awards deadline coming up! Get your nominations now!

[Formal Political Theory Research @FormalTheory]

🚨🚨 AWARD SEASON🚨🚨
The Formal Theory Section of @APSAtweets gives out four awards annually. Deadline: March 1. Nominate your favorite papers here: https://t.co/4wQ5Lyj8xQ. Self nominations encouraged! Non-members: please consider joining! More info: https://t.co/HtbLakfjP0

[Formal Political Theory Research @FormalTheory]

🚨🚨 AWARD SEASON🚨🚨
The Formal Theory Section of @APSAtweets gives out four awards annually. Deadline: March 1. Nominate your favorite papers here: https://t.co/4wQ5Lyj8xQ. Self nominations encouraged! Non-members: please consider joining! More info: https://t.co/HtbLakfjP0

[Ian Turner @ianRturner]

🚨 NEW PAPERS 🚨

We develop models of dark money in elections to study how campaign finance disclosure rules affect voter learning (paper 1) and politician learning (paper 2). @keithschnak drops a thread below ⬇️

[Formal Political Theory Research @FormalTheory]

🚨Virtual Formal Theory Workshop🚨

We're back! Today at 12:00pm EST. Don't miss it!

Featuring Keith Schnakenberg (@keithschnak): "Anger and Political Conflict Dynamics" and Yasushi Asako: "Preventing Polarization by Observing Others’ Actions: Laboratory Experiments"

[Formal Political Theory Research @FormalTheory]

Get your nominations in! Deadline: March 1. More info (including how to join the section) can be found here: https://t.co/HtbLakfjP0

[Formal Political Theory Research @FormalTheory]

Get your nominations in! Deadline: March 1. More info (including how to join the section) can be found here: https://t.co/HtbLakfjP0

[Formal Political Theory Research @FormalTheory]

🚨🚨 AWARD SEASON🚨🚨
The Formal Theory Section of @APSAtweets gives out four awards annually. Deadline: March 1. Nominate your favorite papers here: https://t.co/4wQ5Lyj8xQ. Self nominations encouraged! Non-members: please consider joining! More info: https://t.co/HtbLakfjP0