🥳Happy Fourth🥳 What role did colonial assemblies play (or not play) in the Revolution? Jordan Carr Peterson and I addressed this question in our forthcoming JHPE paper: bit.ly/3Au8zJO

Grades submitted! First year on the tenure track is done 😮‍💨

Post quarter getaway ☺️

The schedule for this summer's SoCal PIPE conference at Caltech has been finalized. Thank you to Alex Hirsch and Michael Gibilisco for organizing! sites.google.com/view/socalpipe/

RFP: Special issue of JPIPE on: Artificial Intelligence and the Study of Political Institutions Proposal deadline: July 22

I’m helping organize this conference/special issue on AI and the Study of Political Institutions. Please consider submitting if you are working on anything related to the request for proposals. I’m happy to answer any questions.

The UCR School of Public Policy (UCR School of Public Policy) is hiring! We have 2 posts this year and will hire up to 4 faculty lines. The first, focusing on the policy process, is now live: aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01951 Please share and feel free to reach out with any questions!

Really great two-day conference on presidential power, the administrative state, and American democracy happening at UChicago. Thanks to Jon Rogowski for organizing!

This was a great one! Thx to Jon Rogowski @uchicagoceg cc davidlewisvu Gbemende E. Johnson Anne Joseph O'Connell Noah Rosenblum Jennifer Nou Elisa Wirsching Andrea Scoseria Katz Don Moynihan Soren Dayton Rudy Mehrbani Dr. Nico Napolio (& others sans twitter)

An unexpected part of being a prof in SoCal is all the reality show casting emails I get. E.g., my UCR email ended up on a list recruiting engaged couples in LA for a reality show? (Maybe this isn't a prof thing but the only other person I know who got the email is a prof.)

To everyone asking whether the coconut tree meme will affect the election: The coconut tree meme itself didn't fall out of a coconut tree, but exists in the context of all in which it lives and what came before it. Groundswell of support for Harris post-debate -> meme -> effect

AP conference paper || Full professor conference paper

Question for political institutionalists: Do you consider gridlock, or other things that result in non-median outcomes, collective action problems? Why or why not?

This means that all my papers that make it past peer-review are flawless, btw

UC Riverside's Sigma Phi chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honors Society, has been awarded a Best Chapter Award for 2023-2024!

How it feels writing a revision memo

The p-value for this is about 0.008, btw

Nov 19: The Historical Political Economy of Race conference. Leading scholars like Dr. Trevon D Logan, Ellora Derenoncourt, Randy Walsh, @aspaglayan on bsky, and Dr. Nico Napolio will present their research.