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Andrew Trexler
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Assistant professor. | He/his. | Political communication, political behavior, news media, public opinion, survey methods. | atrexler.com | Opinions own.
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amengel.bsky.social
Working on a dissertation in American political behavior and need money for survey research? Apply for a grant worth up to $15,000 from the Rapoport Family Foundation. They’re planning on awarding up to 15 grants this cycle.

Deadline Oct. 22.

www.rapoportfamilyfoundation.com/phdgrant
Rapoport Doctoral Dissertation Grants
Supporting projects for PhD students doing political science research, democracy and social justice.
www.rapoportfamilyfoundation.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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tiagoventura.bsky.social
How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality?

Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):
October 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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tkeskinturk.bsky.social
a new working paper: osf.io/vsr5b

I propose a three-stage model of cohortization where dynamics of cohort learning and political sorting serve as complementary engines of aggregate political change.

I apply this to the case of the killing of George Floyd & the BLM.

it's also my job market paper!
Generational Imprinting: How Political Events Shape Cohorts Turgut Keskintürk August, 2025 How, and for whom, do political events translate into enduring political change? This article advances a three-stage model of cohortization, in which salient events produce age differential changes in attitudes, elite cues drive identity-congruent political sorting, and life-course timing regulates whether these attitude changes remain persistent over time. Focusing on the killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020 as a quasi-natural experiment, I test this model by analyzing attitudes toward U.S. law enforcement among non-Hispanic White Americans using five surveys that collectively span from 2016 to 2024. The findings consistently show that Democrats and Independents became strongly unfavorable toward law enforcement—much more so among younger than older individuals. Moreover, the changes persisted for younger individuals, while fading among older individuals, leading to cohort-led polarization. This article integrates two classic—though largely partial—theories of political learning, offering a model for understanding how salient events can realign generational divides.
September 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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UW-Madison PoliSci is hiring in environmental politics! Posting is linked below. I am not on the committee but am very happy to answer any questions I can about the position, department, Madison, etc.
September 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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bcburden.bsky.social
My department @uwmadison.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor with expertise in environmental politics. Send us your application. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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September 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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polcomm.bsky.social
📅 Only one week to go until APSA 2025!

We’ve prepared a clear and concise visual program for the #PolComm division.

👉 Download the PDF and highlight the sessions you don’t want to miss:

shorturl.at/LVuuw
September 4, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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experimentsapsa.bsky.social
There's a new issue of the section newsletter out! This one's on sample considerations in experiments: professional survey-takers, LLM usage, rural contexts, and more!

connect.apsanet.org/s42/newslett...
screenshot of the top of the first page of the fall 2025 experiments section newsletter
August 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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psjeditor.bsky.social
Voting access reforms in 2020 aimed to protect democracy during a pandemic, but how did they shape political efficacy and trust? This PSJ article explores the answer.

By @atrexler.com, @maraynam.bsky.social & Mallory E. SoRelle

Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/psj....

#PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal
August 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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ericpolisci.bsky.social
Stony Brook is hiring in political psychology (assistant professor). Please Share! Feel free to reach out if you have question. For more information: apply.interfolio.com/170193
August 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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jongreen.bsky.social
new working paper: osf.io/7v4zj

tl;dr: taking the "marketplace of ideas" metaphor seriously requires taking the nuances of actually-existing markets seriously, which means thinking about tradeoffs between transaction costs and conformity costs. applied to misinfo and ideological belief systems.
title: Informal (De-)Regulation in the Marketplace of Ideas abstract: Democratic societies face tradeoffs regarding the production, acquisition, and exchange of information and ideas. On the one hand, they benefit from institutions that reduce the transaction costs citizens must pay to acquire reliable information they can use to pursue their goals; on the other hand, those institutions impose conformity costs on citizens’ belief systems. This has traditionally placed civil institutions such as the media, the scientific community, and political parties in the role of informal regulators, which set norms regarding the (combinations of) beliefs citizens should or should not express in lieu of the government setting rules regarding the beliefs citizens can or cannot express. I argue that the interaction of heightened political sectarianism with changes in the structure of the public sphere have weakened these institutions and altered the informal regulations that govern the proverbial “marketplace of ideas.” This framework illuminates recent phenomena of scholarly concern – namely, the health of the political information environment and the evolution of contemporary political ideologies.
August 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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aapor.bsky.social
AAPOR Statement on the Removal of BLS Commissioner McEntarfer aapor.org/statements/a...
AAPOR Statement on the Removal of BLS Commissioner McEntarfer - AAPOR
On behalf of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), we write to express deep concern regarding the removal of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Erika McE...
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August 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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garlicksauce.bsky.social
Here's a treat for state politics and policy researchers: Ethan Dee and I published a dataset in Nature: Scientific Data with the universe of state legislative bills since ~2009 coded by 28 policy areas. We used a machine learning model built off open source components.
Policy agendas of the American state legislatures - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Policy agendas of the American state legislatures
www.nature.com
July 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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kjephd.bsky.social
In my view, the window to *forestall* autocratization of the US political system is basically closed. We're now in the consolidation phase of a new authoritarian constitutional settlement. The question is how far it'll get (will it achieve its apparent goal of fascism?) & at what pace.

Here's why:
July 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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rachelporter.bsky.social
Our article introducing CampaignView is now officially online! Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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mattgraham.bsky.social
Causal evidence that "the proliferation of surveys may lead to lower response rates" doi.org/10.1093/jssa...
July 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Academics/adults with backpacks:

I am in the market for a new backpack. Do you have a (work) backpack that you love?

I have a North Face 'Hotshot' backpack that has served me faithfully for 10+ years but is finally wearing out, so I need to replace & want to consider options.

Some parameters:
Image of a black 'Hotshot' backpack from The North Face against a grey background.
July 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
atrexler.com
For several years, I have marked the 4th by reading Frederick Douglass's 1852 speech on the subject (a copy here: loveman.sdsu.edu/docs/1852Fre...), sometimes alone, sometimes aloud to family or friends.

This year it feels especially poignant. A few passages that particularly stick with me today:
A portrait photograph of Frederick Douglass, circa 1879. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
July 4, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
July 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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thenewthinker.bsky.social
Jason Stanley, philosopher and expert on fascism said “You know you're living in a fascist society when you're constantly going over in your head the reasons why YOU are safe.”
July 3, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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albertsonb2.bsky.social
You Gov numbers: "Only 16% of Americans think the U.S. military should get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran; 60% say it should not and 24% are not sure"

It's going to change quickly, but let's at least remember where we started.

today.yougov.com/politics/art...
Trump approval falls, Israel-Iran conflict, anti-ICE protests, and vaccines: June 13-16, 2025 Economist/YouGov Poll | YouGov
This week’s Economist/YouGov poll covers Trump approval numbers, the Israel-Iran conflict, anti-ICE protests, and opinion of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his actions
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June 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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resnikoff.bsky.social
If the feds’ objective is to “liberate” Los Angeles and California from its democratically elected leadership, then this not a peacekeeping mission but a program of invasion.
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · Jun 12
Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."

Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
June 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
Another video of Senator Padilla’s violent arrest at DHS Sec Noem’s press conference in LA. You can see him thrown to the ground by FBI agents and handcuffed.

(video shared by Padilla’s staff with Elex Michaelson of Fox LA and posted on X)
June 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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gordpennycook.bsky.social
New paper in PSPB! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Well, actually, not "new". We first put this paper online way back Dec 2022... in any case, we think it's really cool!

We find that conspiracy believers tend to be overconfident & really don't seem to realize that most disagree with them
May 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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epovb.bsky.social
Call for proposals!

EPOVB Early-Career Fellowship

deadline: July 1, 2025

Submit to Melissa R. Michelson, at melissa.michelson@menlo.edu

dropbox.com/scl/fi/rcmsv...
May 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM