Patrick Rickert

I like good food and bad jokes. Assistant Professor at Rollins College. Can be found at

[Patrick Rickert @PatrickRickert]

One cannot possibly imagine Sisyphus happy.

[Patrick Rickert @PatrickRickert]

My childhood numismatic passion regrets to inform everyone that the last time a living president was on currency was a commemorative half-dollar with Coolidge (and Washington) for the sesquicentennial, making this as narrowly precedented as possible

[Polling USA @USA_Polling]

Uh huh

[Patrick Rickert @PatrickRickert]

I love it when a manuscript proceeds as follows

[Ian T. Adams @ian_t_adams]

New open access study, now up at @PNASNexus.

A consistent expectation of civilian review boards is that they increase public perceptions of police legitimacy. In a pre-registered experiment, we find quite the opposite. Institutional conflict and preferences for outcomes over process means that in most cases, involving a CRB leads to decreases in perceptions of legitimacy.

Complex topic and excited to have this one out in the world.

[Patrick Rickert @PatrickRickert]

I’ve been excited about this book for a long time, really happy to see it in print!

[Tony Madonna @TonyMadonna5]

The roll call voting record is used to measure congressional polarization and plays a central role in congressional campaigns. Using data on over 120,000 floor amendments, 2,200 major laws and 2,000+ special rules we examine how it's generated and changed. https://t.co/emkRh3WlWa

[Joseph Coll @jacoll_polisci]

One thing about being a new(ish) Assistant Professor they don't tell you about is how much of your time is spent telling undergraduates that you also don't know where the room they are seeking is located.

[Public Opinion Quarterly @poqjournal]

Why do presidents focus on crime, even when crime rates are dropping?

Noble and colleagues show that fear of crime leads to lower presidential approval — but that this penalty varies by voters' race and the president's party.

Read now in POQ: https://t.co/9vT2hOkTkx

[Sarah Binder @bindersab]

framers would have been flummoxed by voting on a "rule"

[Patrick Rickert @PatrickRickert]

There’s a certain beauty in knowing that every discipline has the same Pun Name: Actual Description article titling format

[Patrick Rickert @PatrickRickert]

But how well does it correlate with Nominate?

[Adam Ramey @adamramey]

@mellissameisels Interestingly, yes I have! First, thanks to https://t.co/PvtbKUi3Ra for the raw data. Second, I ran and Ordinal IRT model first for all cardinals included:

[Patrick Rickert @PatrickRickert]

This is without a doubt the most fun I’ve had working on a paper. A question that seemed like something you could google turned out to be an expensive investigation of congressional history. It’s worth a read!

[Patrick Rickert @PatrickRickert]

A couple years ago, Steve Smith and I were idly discussing the origins of committee exclusivity, which we were pretty sure was an invention of the LRA. Investigating that question turned into a project and real story that spanned over a century and archives across the country

[Cambridge University Press - Politics @CUP_PoliSci]

#OpenAccess from @StudiesAPD -

Just One of Those Things: Parties and Exclusive Committees in the U.S. House - https://t.co/A2dQQSZONP

- @ProfStevenSmith & @PatrickRickert

#FirstView

[Patrick Rickert @PatrickRickert]

While this might first seem like a historical curiosity, it gets at a fundamental question of when and how House parties enforce restrictions on their membership