Drew Stommes
@drewstommes.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Associate in the Dept. of Politics at NYU. Studying democracy and conflict in South Asia. Minnesota native. (Website: https://drew-stommes.github.io/)
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Drew Stommes
@drewstommes.bsky.social
· Mar 3
I have a new working paper with @aidanmilliff.com and Varun KR which is now available on SocArXiv: osf.io/preprints/so...
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Wrote a short article for @voxdev.bsky.social using results from my primary data collection. This article is based on a forthcoming @thejop.bsky.social piece where I argue that male migration is an under-examined pathway for female political engagement. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Wrote a short article for @voxdev.bsky.social using results from my primary data collection. This article is based on a forthcoming @thejop.bsky.social piece where I argue that male migration is an under-examined pathway for female political engagement. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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This is an excellent review article discussing open questions/challenges in causality and causal inference. arxiv.org/pdf/2508.17099
October 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This is an excellent review article discussing open questions/challenges in causality and causal inference. arxiv.org/pdf/2508.17099
This is an excellent review article discussing open questions/challenges in causality and causal inference. arxiv.org/pdf/2508.17099
October 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This is an excellent review article discussing open questions/challenges in causality and causal inference. arxiv.org/pdf/2508.17099
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Congrats to @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com and @drewstommes.bsky.social for showing how an information treatment that US wars are fought predominantly by the poor increases preferences for recruiting from the rich.
No effect on tax policy tho! here again we see fx on "target attitudes" not "nontarget"
No effect on tax policy tho! here again we see fx on "target attitudes" not "nontarget"
Do citizens want to address unfair burden-sharing in public goods? New research out in ISQ @isq-jrnl.bsky.social with @drewstommes.bsky.social addresses this question by highlighting the unequal socioeconomic costs of US wars
academic.oup.com/isq/article/...
academic.oup.com/isq/article/...
October 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Congrats to @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com and @drewstommes.bsky.social for showing how an information treatment that US wars are fought predominantly by the poor increases preferences for recruiting from the rich.
No effect on tax policy tho! here again we see fx on "target attitudes" not "nontarget"
No effect on tax policy tho! here again we see fx on "target attitudes" not "nontarget"
I have a new paper with Daniel Goldstein evaluating whether and how citizens want to address the differential burdens of public goods provision, focusing on the physical costs of US military conflict disproportionately borne by less affluent Americans.
Do citizens want to address unfair burden-sharing in public goods? New research out in ISQ @isq-jrnl.bsky.social with @drewstommes.bsky.social addresses this question by highlighting the unequal socioeconomic costs of US wars
academic.oup.com/isq/article/...
academic.oup.com/isq/article/...
October 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I have a new paper with Daniel Goldstein evaluating whether and how citizens want to address the differential burdens of public goods provision, focusing on the physical costs of US military conflict disproportionately borne by less affluent Americans.
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🚨 What if intro political science textbooks were better and cheaper?
We built one:
✅ $1/chapter
✅ Modular & flexible
✅ Written by top scholars
✅ Full (free!) instructor resources
🌐 www.politicsexperiment.com
Help us spread the word! @rudalev.bsky.social & I are the editors!
🚨 What if intro political science textbooks were better and cheaper?
We built one:
✅ $1/chapter
✅ Modular & flexible
✅ Written by top scholars
✅ Full (free!) instructor resources
🌐 www.politicsexperiment.com
Help us spread the word! @rudalev.bsky.social & I are the editors!
Home Page - A Political Science Experiment
www.PoliticsExperiment.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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🚨 What if intro political science textbooks were better and cheaper?
We built one:
✅ $1/chapter
✅ Modular & flexible
✅ Written by top scholars
✅ Full (free!) instructor resources
🌐 www.politicsexperiment.com
Help us spread the word! @rudalev.bsky.social & I are the editors!
🚨 What if intro political science textbooks were better and cheaper?
We built one:
✅ $1/chapter
✅ Modular & flexible
✅ Written by top scholars
✅ Full (free!) instructor resources
🌐 www.politicsexperiment.com
Help us spread the word! @rudalev.bsky.social & I are the editors!
“Modi Wants More Indians to Speak Hindi. Some States Are Shouting ‘No.’”
“States worry that the imposition of Hindi, the main language of northern India, would wipe out their cultural heritage.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/w...
“States worry that the imposition of Hindi, the main language of northern India, would wipe out their cultural heritage.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/w...
Modi Wants More Indians to Speak Hindi. Some States Are Shouting ‘No.’
www.nytimes.com
July 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
“Modi Wants More Indians to Speak Hindi. Some States Are Shouting ‘No.’”
“States worry that the imposition of Hindi, the main language of northern India, would wipe out their cultural heritage.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/w...
“States worry that the imposition of Hindi, the main language of northern India, would wipe out their cultural heritage.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/w...
Really wonderful to see this. My USIP-Minerva Dissertation Fellowship was absolutely critical for helping me push my doctoral dissertation across the finish line.
👋 Hello, we're the United States Institute of Peace (USIP)! We are very happy to join @bsky.app, and thrilled to announce that our website, www.usip.org, is back online! We look forward connecting here and bringing you useful content, resources and opportunities for peacebuilders around the world.
June 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Really wonderful to see this. My USIP-Minerva Dissertation Fellowship was absolutely critical for helping me push my doctoral dissertation across the finish line.
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I spoke with @dkthomp.bsky.social about scientific consensus on the potential harms of #socialmedia and why it's really, really hard to figure out the consensus about polarized topics based on how they are discussed on social media
You can listen here:
www.theringer.com/podcasts/pla...
You can listen here:
www.theringer.com/podcasts/pla...
What Experts Really Think About Smartphones and Mental Health - The Ringer
I’m very concerned about the relationship between smartphone use and America’s mental health crisis. But many researchers don’t see things my way. They insist that there is little to...
www.theringer.com
June 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I spoke with @dkthomp.bsky.social about scientific consensus on the potential harms of #socialmedia and why it's really, really hard to figure out the consensus about polarized topics based on how they are discussed on social media
You can listen here:
www.theringer.com/podcasts/pla...
You can listen here:
www.theringer.com/podcasts/pla...
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Excited to have a new paper forthcoming @cpsjournal.bsky.social – Indigenous Community Recognition and Identity: Evidence from Peru. A first individual-level analysis of a key, widespread public policy, based on years of mapping, data & conversation with colleagues
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
June 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Excited to have a new paper forthcoming @cpsjournal.bsky.social – Indigenous Community Recognition and Identity: Evidence from Peru. A first individual-level analysis of a key, widespread public policy, based on years of mapping, data & conversation with colleagues
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
“[Yunus’s] aides say he feels thwarted by an emerging alliance between the country’s largest remaining political party and the army, which have criticized his policies and say he is being too slow to plan elections.”
Bangladesh’s Leader Threatens to Resign Over Election Pressure www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/w...
Bangladesh’s Leader Threatens to Resign Over Election Pressure
www.nytimes.com
May 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“[Yunus’s] aides say he feels thwarted by an emerging alliance between the country’s largest remaining political party and the army, which have criticized his policies and say he is being too slow to plan elections.”
Bangladesh’s Leader Threatens to Resign Over Election Pressure www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/w...
Bangladesh’s Leader Threatens to Resign Over Election Pressure
www.nytimes.com
May 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Bangladesh’s Leader Threatens to Resign Over Election Pressure www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/w...
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I’m very much looking forward to this soon-to-be-released South Asian history book—titled Apostles of Development: Six Economists and the World They Made—by Prof. David Engerman at Yale. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
May 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I’m very much looking forward to this soon-to-be-released South Asian history book—titled Apostles of Development: Six Economists and the World They Made—by Prof. David Engerman at Yale. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
I’m very much looking forward to this soon-to-be-released South Asian history book—titled Apostles of Development: Six Economists and the World They Made—by Prof. David Engerman at Yale. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
May 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I’m very much looking forward to this soon-to-be-released South Asian history book—titled Apostles of Development: Six Economists and the World They Made—by Prof. David Engerman at Yale. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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So excited to see this out. Stathis and I presented a first version of this paper at APSA in 2010.
#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social -
Ideology and Revolution in Civil Wars: The “Marxist Paradox” - cup.org/3GrU7cV
- @laiabalcells.bsky.social & STATHIS N. KALYVAS
#FirstView
Ideology and Revolution in Civil Wars: The “Marxist Paradox” - cup.org/3GrU7cV
- @laiabalcells.bsky.social & STATHIS N. KALYVAS
#FirstView
April 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
So excited to see this out. Stathis and I presented a first version of this paper at APSA in 2010.
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I am hiring a new Lab Manager to help run the NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation.
We start reviewing apps on MAY 1st and it pays over $58,000. Please share with anyone who might be interested!
Please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/166620
See more details below:
We start reviewing apps on MAY 1st and it pays over $58,000. Please share with anyone who might be interested!
Please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/166620
See more details below:
April 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I am hiring a new Lab Manager to help run the NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation.
We start reviewing apps on MAY 1st and it pays over $58,000. Please share with anyone who might be interested!
Please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/166620
See more details below:
We start reviewing apps on MAY 1st and it pays over $58,000. Please share with anyone who might be interested!
Please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/166620
See more details below:
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New paper alert (hey, I can't doom scroll all the time): This one's on doing causal inference with "microlevel data" where we suspect that the treatment has spatial spillover & temporal carryover effects. We illustrate our new approach + package w/ application to US counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq
Spatiotemporal causal inference with arbitrary spillover and carryover effects
Micro-level data with granular spatial and temporal information are becoming increasingly available to social scientists. Most researchers aggregate such data into a convenient panel data format and a...
arxiv.org
April 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
New paper alert (hey, I can't doom scroll all the time): This one's on doing causal inference with "microlevel data" where we suspect that the treatment has spatial spillover & temporal carryover effects. We illustrate our new approach + package w/ application to US counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq
Reposted by Drew Stommes
If your research involves RD designs, check out this important new working paper from Ghosh, Imbens, and Wager: "PLRD: Partially Linear Regression Discontinuity Inference" arxiv.org/pdf/2503.09907
March 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
If your research involves RD designs, check out this important new working paper from Ghosh, Imbens, and Wager: "PLRD: Partially Linear Regression Discontinuity Inference" arxiv.org/pdf/2503.09907
If your research involves RD designs, check out this important new working paper from Ghosh, Imbens, and Wager: "PLRD: Partially Linear Regression Discontinuity Inference" arxiv.org/pdf/2503.09907
March 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
If your research involves RD designs, check out this important new working paper from Ghosh, Imbens, and Wager: "PLRD: Partially Linear Regression Discontinuity Inference" arxiv.org/pdf/2503.09907
Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie-Woogie
(one of my favorites)
(one of my favorites)
March 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie-Woogie
(one of my favorites)
(one of my favorites)
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🚨New pre-print! It builds on the State Formation seminar that I teach at Yale, benefiting from rich conversations with brilliant students. The piece tackles state formation, state building, and outlines 3 paths of future research: civil wars, international constraints, and bureaucratic capacity.
From Territorial Consolidation to Bureaucratic Dominance: The Long Arc of State Development | Annual Reviews
Our understanding of state development—a term that encompasses both state formation and state building—has grown significantly in the last two decades. In this review, I outline the foundations of the...
www.annualreviews.org
March 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
🚨New pre-print! It builds on the State Formation seminar that I teach at Yale, benefiting from rich conversations with brilliant students. The piece tackles state formation, state building, and outlines 3 paths of future research: civil wars, international constraints, and bureaucratic capacity.
Reposted by Drew Stommes
New Broadstreet post up!
Highlighting some great work rethinking common assumptions about African borders!
@ricarthuguet.bsky.social @jackpaine.bsky.social and Christy Qiu
www.broadstreet.blog/p/african-bo...
Highlighting some great work rethinking common assumptions about African borders!
@ricarthuguet.bsky.social @jackpaine.bsky.social and Christy Qiu
www.broadstreet.blog/p/african-bo...
March 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
New Broadstreet post up!
Highlighting some great work rethinking common assumptions about African borders!
@ricarthuguet.bsky.social @jackpaine.bsky.social and Christy Qiu
www.broadstreet.blog/p/african-bo...
Highlighting some great work rethinking common assumptions about African borders!
@ricarthuguet.bsky.social @jackpaine.bsky.social and Christy Qiu
www.broadstreet.blog/p/african-bo...