The reason to pay grad students decently isn’t because they “deserve” it, it’s because that’s the only way to get any degree of socioeconomic diversity in who enters academia
Happy to share that my paper, “Foreign Policy Appointments”, is now online @IntOrgJournal!
How do leaders select their top-level foreign policy appointees?
I develop a formal model analyzing the tradeoffs involved, and present some descriptive cross-national empirics
Short 🧵