Michael Auslen

Assistant Professor @UTGovernment. Representation, media, state/local politics, parties. Former politics reporter. Proud @idsnews alum. 🌈

[Michael Auslen @MichaelAuslen]

The country’s greatest college newspaper reporting on the country’s greatest college football team. Now that’s some Hoosier excellence.

[IDS Sports @ids_sports]

#iufb reached college football immortality Monday night, as the Hoosiers earned their first national championship with their victory over Miami.

Indiana finished the 2025 season a perfect 16-0 as the national champions.

https://t.co/1IBlEm2vLD

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TO BE IN BLOOMINGTON RIGHT NOW….

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To be in Bloomington right now…

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To be in Bloomington right now…

[Indiana Daily Student @idsnews]

Indiana Daily Student photographers are capturing the anticipation across Bloomington ahead of Indiana football's national championship game Monday night. See their photos:
https://t.co/F3KJ7AVLtY

[Andrew Miller @andrew_mmiller]

Our next edition will hit the stands Nov. 20.

[Indiana Daily Student @idsnews]

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our paper. Upon pushback, IU fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision. Letter from the editors to come.

[Michael Auslen @MichaelAuslen]

@cwarshaw @SPPQJournal Thank you!

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Subnational public opinion is important to many things we care about: learning what policies people want! assessing representation! But it's hard with historical data because of survey sampling challenges. My new paper at @SPPQJournal shows how we can update MRP to do just that.

[Cambridge University Press - Politics @CUP_PoliSci]

#OpenAccess from @SPPQJournal -

Improving Subnational Opinion Estimation from Cluster-Sampled Polls - https://t.co/DyZCubeYQL

- @MichaelAuslen

#FirstView

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Great to see this paper out! In it we document the rise of the culture wars as a dominant divide in American politics. In particular, we find that it was the *state* parties that first polarized on abortion, well before national parties acted on the issue.

[Studies in American Political Development (SAPD) @StudiesAPD]

New First View! The Culture War and Partisan Polarization: State Political Parties, 1960–2018 | Studies in American Political Development https://t.co/BrKUfyDfbp @GeraldGamm Justin Phillips, Matthew Carr, and @michaelauslen

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So this news from Gannett may be good news for democratic representation in these states, though perhaps less so if they are simply replacing reporters laid off months or years ago with fellows on short-term contracts (which I have no information about) https://t.co/2iNabLlUx1

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Interesting move by Gannett (which has over several years dramatically reduced the number of reporters in its newsrooms) to hire reporters to cover state politics--though seemingly in capitals where they do not on the paper.

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In a working paper, I find that when state legislators are more likely to be covered by the press, they are more responsive to their constituents' preferences. https://t.co/2mBuU6wzxm

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BUT, surprisingly, the public is *not* more informed or engaged in districts where legislators are more likely to be covered. Instead, the presence of journalists as watchdog monitors in the state capitol likely changes politicians' incentives to represent constituents well.

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Interesting move by Gannett (which has over several years dramatically reduced the number of reporters in its newsrooms) to hire reporters to cover state politics--though seemingly in capitals where they do not on the paper.

[Jim Rosica @JimRosicaFL]

"These full-time fellowships run from November 2023 to December 2024, and the roles are benefits eligible. We're looking for enterprising and scoop-driven reporters who are eager to write explanatory and informative journalism for a statewide and national audience." ⤵️

[Michael Auslen @MichaelAuslen]

Lucy was such an icon of a journalist who left a huge mark on Tallahassee—and also a wonderful person. What a loss. https://t.co/ecLt8LSLCF

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

padam padam

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When I say I study political effects of declining local news media, I’m obviously not talking about Barbie News (which is thriving)

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Artists featured on the ���BARBIE’ soundtrack revealed.

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[Michael Auslen @MichaelAuslen]

No local reporters on the ground to cover the city? Sounds like a recipe for poor accountability in local government.

[Brittany Carloni @CarloniBrittany]

A Gannett paper with 0 reporters:
"The lack of local reporting has drawn complaints from the mayor, a county supervisor and everyday citizens who say the public life of their community has been diminished by the lack of a dependable source of local news."
https://t.co/3X3xG0squm

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@kemettler @mjcontrera The @mjcontrera quote about Jim on EPS Day 1 😭😭

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Paging Philip Converse...

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@GailAlfarATX I suggest no parties and just direct voting by the people of concise laws that everyone can understand

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@ashleycdye @spollenz It is a cult classic in that I would join any cult started by this icon