#PoliSci

I am very sad to learn of Guenter Treitel's death. The most important post-war contract lawyer. He fled Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport, as he describes below. Worth watching regardless

THREAD: Hey #AcademicTwitter folks and #socialscience types of all substantive and methodological stripes.I just had a crazy idea for a fun, post-tenure research project that doesn't belong to any particular

Bridget C.E. Dooling

I'm working on a literature review for a new project on the Congressional Review Act. Thought I'd share a few of the pieces in a thread that I'll add to

Mark Copelovitch

Nothing the Fed does is apolitical. The politics are just different from those in other political institutions.https://twitter.com/zachdcarter/status/1300500020924485632 The creation of the Fed was one of the epic political battles of

1. Here is a thread on research projects that don't go as we might have hoped. 2. In a candid survey of his career in ANNUAL REVIEWS, Bob Keohane briefly

Dr Unintentionally Bad*ss 🤓

I didn’t watch the election returns in 2016 because I just knew he would win. I cried the next morning (the 1st of ~2 weeks of tears), saying to hubs

Timothy Anderson

1/ Over and over in @UCPCaucus we are seeing proof that a PoliSci BA doesn't make anyone a competent communications or PR professional.It's a great degree, but it's not the

I'm speaking generally here -- but these types of people are everywhere. I saw recently that this was abnormal or that these abusers are a rarity in the profession. My

Elea McDonnell Feit

I've been thinking a lot today about how much advertising effects behavior, but it has ended up in different threads. Organizing it here: It started with this picture from a

Models of aggregate election results should be treated very cautiously. But this leaves out:1) The most prominent U.S. models: "Time for Change" and "Bread and Peace" were first published in

QC Adjuncts Unite! #FreeThemAll #CancelRent

Luis Diaz, York custodian for 20+ years; York adjunct & alum Dr. Yves Roseus (Occupational Therapy); Brooklyn Comp Sci prof Moshe Augenstein; GC PoliSci student & former CCNY adjunct Tom

Annick T.R. Wibben

Here's an occasional reminder that we are hiring for several positions in in #WarStudies @Forsvarshogsk - one junior position: http://jobb.fhs.se/job/stockholm/one_associate_senior_lecturer_in_war_studies-327958.html & Another position is spe

Shelly Lundberg

ShellyJLundberg

OK #EconTwitter, I have a question. I've been seeing sporadic reports from journal editors in other fields that the author gender composition of submissions has changed dramatically in recent weeks.

@hal_harvey’s review of @billmckibbenand @dwallacewells in @ForeignAffairsshows precisely why we need more #polisci in #climatechange discourse: pragmatism is political. THREAD 1/n.https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/review-essay/2020-

Stephen Pampinella

StevePampinella

Quick thoughts on this excellent article from an IR/social science perspectivehttps://tnsr.org/2020/04/recentering-the-united-states-in-the-historiography-of-american-foreign-relations/ Bessner and Logevall provide an interesting take on a discipline

Existential Comics

existentialcoms

If you want to make sense of the current political moment, and why electoral politics under capitalism can never, and will never, serve anyone but the wealthy capitalists, look no