I am happy to share two pieces of news:
For the 2026-2027 academic year. I will join the Litowitz Center for Enlightened Disagreement @KelloggSchool as a postdoc working with @EliJFinkel and Nour Kteily.
Then, in Fall 2027, I will join @LSEGovernment as an Assistant Professor.
I am incredibly excited about both positions and grateful to friends, family, mentors and co-authors who have helped me along the way.
I am excited to be doing more work on strategic voting, democratic norms, field experiments and many other topics. So please reach out if you are Evanston or London (or anywhere else I suppose).
@RobbWiller I don't think this fraud problem is all that hypothetical.
The biggest risk is probably from an R-run state trying to throw out the votes from a big Dem county on a pretext.
@dhopkins1776 It's funny to imagine something like a an out-of-office office 2028 contender running in a house special in 27 to show they can out-perform. But even that is different in 5 ways.
@dov_levin Yeah I think it's possible there won't be lockdowns at a time when they are needed, but something even 5 times as deadly as COVID will create totally different politics very quickly.
This is a very strange argument. If there is a 30% fatality virus spreading in the population the public demand for extreme measures will be overwhelming. No one will care about COVID era grudges about public health.
@asymmetricinfo You only get one lockdown every 100 years or so. Our public health authorities beclowned themselves and wasted it on a relative nothingburger (for the general population, not the elderly or those with comorbidities), so if/when we get an actual severe pandemic, weβre screwed.
I am happy to share two pieces of news:
For the 2026-2027 academic year. I will join the Litowitz Center for Enlightened Disagreement @KelloggSchool as a postdoc working with @EliJFinkel and Nour Kteily.
Then, in Fall 2027, I will join @LSEGovernment as an Assistant Professor.
I am incredibly excited about both positions and grateful to friends, family, mentors and co-authors who have helped me along the way.
I am excited to be doing more work on strategic voting, democratic norms, field experiments and many other topics. So please reach out if you are Evanston or London (or anywhere else I suppose).
@SeanTrende I don't think it's an accident that 90% of the discourse is about partisan fairness, and I suspect that's what really matters to voters. Especially for districts/states other than their own.
Why do state parties that routinely lose all their elections not make even cursory attempts to appeal to their state's median voter?
There are many plausible answers but not clear what combination of them is most accurate.