#PoliSci

Richard W. Maass

richardmaass

As @ProfPaulPoast lays out well, the US discipline of IR emerged from racist worldviews that dominated thinking before+after World War I.Of course, it would be difficult to expect anything else

aaron vansintjan🐙

a_vansi

A lot of people know Nobel Prize-winning economist Elinor Ostrom from her work on the commons. But many might not know that some of her first research in the 1970s

Dr Aisha Ahmad

ProfAishaAhmad

Academic peeps: I've lived through many disasters. Here is my advice on "productivity". First, play the long game. Your peers who are trying to work as normal right now are

Stephen Pettigrew

pettigrew_stats

Holy crap, I'm floored by how bad this article is. These political scientists should probably have talked to their political science colleagues who work on network decision desks before writing

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K_e_z_a_

I lived in America for 10 years, And we faced so many racially motivated injustices A thread. I went to visit my guidance counselor in highschool asking if i could

Jonah Gelbach

gelbach

Here's a thread with some thoughts about the various forms of snark going round Twitter regarding expertise, and its absence, in discussions of COVID-19, epidemiology, economics, and so on, in

Paul Poast

ProfPaulPoast

states are forming pacts with one another.What's going on?Well, it illustrates why I describe the US Constitution as an "International Organization" in "Intro to International Relations"[THREAD] ICYMI, @GavinNewsom recently re

Omar Wasow

owasow

A recent paper on infant mortality has been getting a lot of attention. A headline summarized: ”Black newborns more likely to die when looked after by White doctors.” There’s been

Kate Elizabeth Korte

katekorte

there's a video circulating about @BowinnMa and as a young woman in poli, here are my *nonpartisan* opinions. 1. this is an example of girl-on-girl crime. 2. BCpoli is an

Ezra Levin

ezralevin

Zeke's asleep so real quick here's why next year is gonna be awesome. I'm a fan of presidential scholar Stephen Skowronek. He's got a "political time" theory about presidents -

Carla Norrlof

CarlaNorrlof

Geo-economics, a thread/n@Geoeconomics@ACGlobalEcon@CFR_CGS@FIIA_fi 1/ What is geoeconomics?The idea can be traced back to the works of MacKinder, more commonly known as the father of geopoliticsBut the concept 'geoeconomica' was in

Chris Hanretty is staying home

chrishanretty

Towns are sexy in UK polisci, aren't they? Let's talk a little bit about the super-sexy Towns Fund https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/towns-fund-prospectus (1/n) As @estwebber and @georgegrylls reported this morning, the Per

Kate Heartfield

kateheartfield

Who's ready for a thread about the Flour War of 1775? Too bad, you're getting one anyway! Disclaimers: I am not an economist or historian. I am a fantasy writer

Ben W. Ansell

benwansell

MERITOCRACY IN THE NEWS @David_Goodhart and Michael Sandel have both written provocative new books about the trouble with 'meritocracy'. Both argue that non-graduates have been undervalued and that graduates in

i am a writer, a writer of fictions 🔞

ship_to_hell

Still thinking about teocatl & them just collapsing together after a case...tired boys...let them sleep...(also: post-trilogy Revered Speaker. Ahuizotl and his beloved high priest. Maybe in this universe he doesn't

Smaran Dayal

smaran

It's Indigenous Peoples' Day. Here's a thread by a settler South Asian scholar on Indigenous Studies texts we should all be reading, learning from, citing, and most importantly translating into