Matthew Fails

Political science professor at Oakland University. Mostly international development, oil and politics, dictatorships, and cycling

[Matthew Fails @matthew_fails]

great news for @ass_deans

[Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber]

I have a piece up about white-collar workers' most reliable defense against AI: meetings. Lots and lots of meetings. https://t.co/fVOxBCGBcy

[Matthew Fails @matthew_fails]

@AdamGeorg3 @UofMNLawSchool Great to see you (both!) and congratulations. Proud of you!

[Matthew Fails @matthew_fails]

Interested in more? Paper is posted here https://t.co/jsJaduSxFM

[Matthew Fails @matthew_fails]

And an @oaklandu undergraduate and I just had a paper accepted where we build on this data and code additional methods of evasion, and show that economic performance drives evasion attempts

[Anne Meng @annemeng_]

In light of Trump making the 3rd term comments, I thought it would be interesting to revisit the broader data on term limit evasion attempts. In 2020, Mila Versteeg (UVA Law) and I worked with law students to collect data on strategies incumbents use to circumvent term limits /1

[Matthew Fails @matthew_fails]

One finding is that when economic performance is strong, evasion attempts (and especially public facing methods like referenda) are more likely. So if the domestic economy goes south, at least the most obvious methods become less likely (silver linings and all that)

[Matthew Fails @matthew_fails]

Good day to share this little paper I wrote as a grad student

Colonialism, Property Rights and the Modern World Income Distribution | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core - https://t.co/SdT3zPSUix

[Matthew Fails @matthew_fails]

@_alice_evans paging Eugene Weber...and @cblatts who seems to have a soft spot for making peasants into frenchmen

[Matthew Fails @matthew_fails]

@Christinapearlw @j_a_tucker Obviously I'm not on here much these days (probably for the better), but I use this: https://t.co/cZwdfkIC6z

[Matthew Fails @matthew_fails]

@daniel_mcdowell The first CD I ever purchased and still makes frequent appearances on those end of year Spotify personalized lists. Just taught my 12yr old the opening riff to Holiday last week!

[Matthew Fails @matthew_fails]

@AmandaMurdie @UGA_INTL @UGA_SPIA @DiplomacyLab We have two Diplomacy Lab projects on tap for fall @oaklandu. They are our first so we might need to pick your brain for some tips!

[Matthew Fails @matthew_fails]

@AdamGeorg3 @lawfare @qjurecic Look at you! Nice piece, congrats.

[Matthew Fails @matthew_fails]

Gohlke with the wired earbuds, because of course

[Oakland Men's Basketball @OaklandMBB]

Here we come!!

[Matthew Fails @matthew_fails]

@RTPerson3 Stand by for CV update

[Brian Bierley @brianbierley]

5 @oaklandu students and Professor @DaveDulio talked about #voting on @CBS Saturday Morning today! Thank you @MacFarlaneNews and Charlie Brooks for a wonderful piece on the impact of young Michigan voters. https://t.co/7NkzU1Hzgc @JhelysseAnthony @PaytonBucki @GoldenGrizzlies

[Matthew Fails @matthew_fails]

@nw_allen Same

[Matthew Fails @matthew_fails]

@jkyleindc @MichaelRoss7 @paashamahdavi @IFPRI @IFPRI_Nigeria @JeffDColgan @D_E_Resnick @IISD_Energy Good piece, thanks for sharing. The idea that popular but inefficient policies are hard to break does seem to hinge on the policy working and thus being popular!

[Matthew Fails @matthew_fails]

My only contribution to the hand wringing about elite institution folks frequently contributing to the toxic anonymous field rumor sites is to simply ask, “have you seriously never met anyone from elite institutions?”

[Matthew Fails @matthew_fails]

@AdamGeorg3 @jl_blank Hey oh! Congratulations to you both!

[Matthew Fails @matthew_fails]

@daniel_mcdowell passing down the short-sleeve-over-long-sleeve T look to my children is one of my proudest parental accomplishments yet

[Matthew Fails @matthew_fails]

@NateMJensen Nate, the 90s vibes are back, have you not looked around at your campus recently???