Cam Arnzen
@camarnzen.bsky.social
🗳️I study Politics, Education, & Public Policy. 🔎 Postdoc at Brown University | 📚 PhD from Columbia University | 🎓Duke & College of Idaho Alum | 🎶 Dedicated Swiftie | 🥔 Idahoan | 🏳️🌈
www.cameronarnzen.com
www.cameronarnzen.com
How do administrative designs shape access to democracy? We analyze U.S. school district websites and meetings to show how bureaucracy and group mobilization facilitate access to school board info and the democratic process. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @jonathanecollins.bsky.social
Administrative Designs and Access to Political Arenas in Public Education
What administrative and political features render spaces of political action publicly accessible? Drawing on Schattschneider's core elements of visibility and scope, we offer a framework to identify ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
How do administrative designs shape access to democracy? We analyze U.S. school district websites and meetings to show how bureaucracy and group mobilization facilitate access to school board info and the democratic process. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @jonathanecollins.bsky.social
Given education's essential role in shaping democracy and its recent drift into general, partisan politics, we argue that poli sci should take seriously studying the broader political dynamics of education & offer suggestions as to how to do so.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Given education's essential role in shaping democracy and its recent drift into general, partisan politics, we argue that poli sci should take seriously studying the broader political dynamics of education & offer suggestions as to how to do so.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Are you a political scientist who studies/teaches education policy? Read this. Use it to improve your syllabi.
Are you an education researcher who studies/teaches politics? Read this. Use it to improve your syllabi.
Are you an education researcher who studies/teaches politics? Read this. Use it to improve your syllabi.
@camarnzen.bsky.social and @chloeoneill.bsky.social explore how political science courses can better integrate education politics into the curriculum in “Teaching About Schooling: Integrating Education Politics into Political Science Curricula.”
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November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Are you a political scientist who studies/teaches education policy? Read this. Use it to improve your syllabi.
Are you an education researcher who studies/teaches politics? Read this. Use it to improve your syllabi.
Are you an education researcher who studies/teaches politics? Read this. Use it to improve your syllabi.
As I start my read of 107 Days, I have to remind myself that 77.3 million people voted for Trump and 75 million voted for Kamala, but 90 million eligible voters didn’t vote at all… 🗳️
» 2024 General Election Turnout UF Election Lab
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September 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
As I start my read of 107 Days, I have to remind myself that 77.3 million people voted for Trump and 75 million voted for Kamala, but 90 million eligible voters didn’t vote at all… 🗳️
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Destroying Fed independence is almost the perfect example of latent opinion. Polls won’t tell you the effect on public opinion because most people don’t think about and/or understand monetary policy basics. But if you cause inflation or stagflation, future public opinion will be very disapproving.
August 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Destroying Fed independence is almost the perfect example of latent opinion. Polls won’t tell you the effect on public opinion because most people don’t think about and/or understand monetary policy basics. But if you cause inflation or stagflation, future public opinion will be very disapproving.
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Junior faculty and grad students in political science, history, law, and Native American Studies, come take a class with us at the New York Historical Society (and via Zoom) on Native Peoples, American Colonialism, and the U.S. Constitution.
To apply, Institute for Constitutional History: 1/2
To apply, Institute for Constitutional History: 1/2
August 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Junior faculty and grad students in political science, history, law, and Native American Studies, come take a class with us at the New York Historical Society (and via Zoom) on Native Peoples, American Colonialism, and the U.S. Constitution.
To apply, Institute for Constitutional History: 1/2
To apply, Institute for Constitutional History: 1/2
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Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.
August 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
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Excited to circulate another @caldercenter.bsky.social WP! Another study from my dissertation, w/ @roddy-theobald.bsky.social. Using data from WA, we track individual paraeducators to predict exit from the state education workforce. Ungated WP here: tinyurl.com/3wtfrm2m
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July 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Excited to circulate another @caldercenter.bsky.social WP! Another study from my dissertation, w/ @roddy-theobald.bsky.social. Using data from WA, we track individual paraeducators to predict exit from the state education workforce. Ungated WP here: tinyurl.com/3wtfrm2m
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The book comes out next month! You can preorder now from SUNY or that other place that sells books on the internet.
sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...
sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...
July 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The book comes out next month! You can preorder now from SUNY or that other place that sells books on the internet.
sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...
sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...
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Jerry Min Receives the 2025 APSA Best Poster Award for “Do Left Governments Tax More? How States Tax Global Capital With Tax Treaties”
The APSA Best Poster Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best poster presented by a graduate student or…
The APSA Best Poster Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best poster presented by a graduate student or…
Jerry Min Receives the 2025 APSA Best Poster Award for “Do Left Governments Tax More? How States Tax Global Capital With Tax Treaties”
The APSA Best Poster Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best poster presented by a graduate student or early career scholar at the previous APSA Annual Meeting. Citation from the Award Committee: Jerry Jie Min (Harvard University) has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 APSA Best Poster Award for his poster, “Left Governments Offer More Tax Incentives to Foreign Investors Through International Treaties.” Chosen from among over 200 eligible posters presented by graduate students and early-career scholars at the APSA Annual Meeting, Min’s poster exemplified excellence across all four of our evaluation criteria: clarity and organization; research quality and rigor; relevance and impact; and presentation and engagement.
politicalsciencenow.com
July 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Jerry Min Receives the 2025 APSA Best Poster Award for “Do Left Governments Tax More? How States Tax Global Capital With Tax Treaties”
The APSA Best Poster Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best poster presented by a graduate student or…
The APSA Best Poster Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best poster presented by a graduate student or…
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looking forward to some parents suing to demand segregated schools because integration violates their religious beliefs
June 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
looking forward to some parents suing to demand segregated schools because integration violates their religious beliefs
In our 2024 U.S. Post-Election Reflection via
@apsa.bsky.social, Rebecca Jacobsen and I preview some of our ongoing research on how partisanship and nationalization influence on-cycle local school board elections.
@apsa.bsky.social, Rebecca Jacobsen and I preview some of our ongoing research on how partisanship and nationalization influence on-cycle local school board elections.
Local Elections, National Tides: The Role of Partisanship in School Board Elections: 2024 Post-Election Reflection Series -
Prior to the 2024 US Presidential Election, APSA’s Diversity and Inclusion Programs Department issued a call for submissions, entitled 2024 APSA Post-Election Reflections, for a PSNow blog series of political science scholars who reflect on [...]
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June 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
In our 2024 U.S. Post-Election Reflection via
@apsa.bsky.social, Rebecca Jacobsen and I preview some of our ongoing research on how partisanship and nationalization influence on-cycle local school board elections.
@apsa.bsky.social, Rebecca Jacobsen and I preview some of our ongoing research on how partisanship and nationalization influence on-cycle local school board elections.
All of the “let’s revisit this in June” convos are coming to roost. 😵💫
June 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
All of the “let’s revisit this in June” convos are coming to roost. 😵💫
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This is so, so important: these smaller-in-size regional protests. It's not just big cities! It's people in small towns, too.
Chardon, Ohio, population 5242 in 2020 census, had approximately 400 people show up in the rain. #nokings
June 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This is so, so important: these smaller-in-size regional protests. It's not just big cities! It's people in small towns, too.
Back home:
June 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Back home:
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Hi! I’m looking for a few more doctorate holding reviewers for AERA Division L - Section 1 (governance and politics). Reviewing will take place later this summer. If you’re interested, drop a comment here or message me. Thanks for considering.
June 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Hi! I’m looking for a few more doctorate holding reviewers for AERA Division L - Section 1 (governance and politics). Reviewing will take place later this summer. If you’re interested, drop a comment here or message me. Thanks for considering.
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🚨Attention Job Seekers: We're hiring a quantitative researcher for a 1-year (possibly renewable for 2nd yr) position to study Career & Technical education! While not technically a postdoc, this would be a great fit for a recent PhD graduate! 🧵 careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
Research Area Specialist Associate | U-M Careers
careers.umich.edu
May 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
🚨Attention Job Seekers: We're hiring a quantitative researcher for a 1-year (possibly renewable for 2nd yr) position to study Career & Technical education! While not technically a postdoc, this would be a great fit for a recent PhD graduate! 🧵 careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
Saw the first academic job market posting (so early?!) of the season... Hello existential stress, my old friend.
a man in a plaid shirt is sitting in front of a window with a sticker that says ugg
ALT: a man in a plaid shirt is sitting in front of a window with a sticker that says ugg
media.tenor.com
May 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Saw the first academic job market posting (so early?!) of the season... Hello existential stress, my old friend.
Apparently the vibes for the re-release of Reputation (TV) are going to be fueled the President of the United States’ weird obsession with Taylor Swift. 🐍
May 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Apparently the vibes for the re-release of Reputation (TV) are going to be fueled the President of the United States’ weird obsession with Taylor Swift. 🐍
🚨 Essential Politics of Education Reading 🚨
This piece so perfectly captures how education governance has changed in the recent decades, and it would be particularly excellent for graduate education policy/politics courses!
This piece so perfectly captures how education governance has changed in the recent decades, and it would be particularly excellent for graduate education policy/politics courses!
Proud to share a draft chapter from my upcoming book “The Long Division: How the Politics of Education Became Partisan”
I trace the history of US K-12 school governance, focusing on institutional changes that have made the domain more exposed to partisan conflict
edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1182
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I trace the history of US K-12 school governance, focusing on institutional changes that have made the domain more exposed to partisan conflict
edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1182
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May 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🚨 Essential Politics of Education Reading 🚨
This piece so perfectly captures how education governance has changed in the recent decades, and it would be particularly excellent for graduate education policy/politics courses!
This piece so perfectly captures how education governance has changed in the recent decades, and it would be particularly excellent for graduate education policy/politics courses!
It makes my heart happy that our education research conference is happening at the same time/place as a youth dance competition and a comic con. Great vibes all around.
April 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It makes my heart happy that our education research conference is happening at the same time/place as a youth dance competition and a comic con. Great vibes all around.
Doing what I do 95% of the time: talking about education governance and politics! Just this time, it’s at #AERA2025
Headed to AERA this week? Don’t miss the incredible work our Annenberg team is sharing!
April 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Doing what I do 95% of the time: talking about education governance and politics! Just this time, it’s at #AERA2025
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April 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Nothing says teaching critical thinking like state-level bans on what topics can be taught
April 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Nothing says teaching critical thinking like state-level bans on what topics can be taught
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“What becomes of the University if it succumbs to the demands of a political party or leader that cedes rights of free speech, free expression, and free inquiry? What becomes of our students [of any age] if they are only permitted to think, speak, and be in ways that follow the political winds? “
Trump threatens all education, not just universities
<i>Updated April 10 at 7:53 p.m.</i>
www.columbiaspectator.com
April 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
“What becomes of the University if it succumbs to the demands of a political party or leader that cedes rights of free speech, free expression, and free inquiry? What becomes of our students [of any age] if they are only permitted to think, speak, and be in ways that follow the political winds? “