Reilly Steel
reillysteel.bsky.social
Reilly Steel
@reillysteel.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Columbia Law School | business, law, and politics | www.reillysteel.com
Pinned
Happy to share that my article, "The Political Transformation of Corporate America, 2001-2022," has been published in the American Political Science Review (@apsrjournal.bsky.social)! Link here: doi.org/10.1017/S000...
This is literally no better start to a day

Wordle 1,593 2/6

⬜🟨🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
October 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Reposted by Reilly Steel
#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social -

The Path of Law: Legal Uncertainty and Issues of First Impression in the U.S. Courts of Appeals - https://cup.org/42XsrF0

- @anthonytaboni.bsky.social

#FirstView
September 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Write a quick comment opposing this awful rule that would effectively exclude international students from our Ph.D. programs. Just takes a few minutes. Here's mine.
September 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Reposted by Reilly Steel
It took me less than 5 mins to write a comment about how integral international PhD students are to scientific production, and to the US' economic and cultural power.

Please consider also leaving a comment on the devastating rule change for international PhD students:
September 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Happy to share that my article, "The Political Transformation of Corporate America, 2001-2022," has been published in the American Political Science Review (@apsrjournal.bsky.social)! Link here: doi.org/10.1017/S000...
September 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Reposted by Reilly Steel
#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social -

The Political Transformation of Corporate America, 2001–2022 - https://cup.org/4nOPdqH

- @reillysteel.bsky.social

#FirstView
September 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Wordle Bot says my skill was only 68, but it really doesn't understand my objective function. Who cares about trying to solve the game in the fewest expected guesses? The joy from solving in 2 moves >> the pain from solving in 4/5/6.

Wordle 1,559 2/6

⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
September 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Yes, #2 seems correct (see the blow plot); in addition to Iger, the same is true for Dana Walden.

On #3, also interesting is that the right-wing mass in the density consists entirely of execs from the parks division (though some have made few contributions, so take w/ a grain of salt).
September 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Gotta take our victories where we can.

Wordle 1,555 2/6

🟩⬜⬜🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
September 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Disney's indefinite suspension of Kimmel is a big moment in part b/c Disney has a pretty liberal groups of executives, including the two individuals who reportedly made the decision (Bob Iger and Dana Walden). Here's a plot, based on data from my forthcoming APSR paper.
September 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
most random appointment of an SEC enforcement director ever? presumably very smart (former SCOTUS clerk, etc.), but also...a military judge and lecturer on military law?
August 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
…and I’ve successfully defended my dissertation at @princetonpolitics.bsky.social! Thanks to @nolanmc.bsky.social @jkastellec.bsky.social Gleason Judd and Frances Lee for all the tough questions and invaluable advice!
August 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Wordle 1,509 2/6

⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

WordleBot
Skill 99/99
Luck 92/99

Sometimes, life is good
August 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Reposted by Reilly Steel
@adambonica.bsky.social and I are economists now (economist salary coming soon, I imagine)

Ungated until the end of September: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Old money: Campaign finance and gerontocracy in the United States
Politicians in the United States rank among the oldest globally. This study examines how money in politics contributes to age inequality in political …
www.sciencedirect.com
July 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
How does the push & pull b/t law and politics shape the work of exec branch lawyers charged with providing "neutral" interpretations of the law? Find out in a new paper of mine just published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. Download: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
July 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Catch me at this year's Research Conference on the American Political Economy on 7/29 at 12 pm ET! I'll be on a roundtable called "Plutocracy" with @adambonica.bsky.social and @kagoss.bsky.social, moderated by @awhf.bsky.social. It's virtual, so you can attend from wherever. Sign-up link below.
July 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Reposted by Reilly Steel
9 out of 10 agencies targeted by DOGE for layoffs are liberal-leaning. Every single proposed GOP budget increase goes to conservative agencies.

They're not cutting fat—they're performing ideological surgery with a chainsaw.
June 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Excited to announce I'll be joining the faculty at Columbia Law School as an Associate Professor of Law effective next month! I'm thrilled to be working alongside so many giants in the academy—and at my alma mater no less. A dream come true!
June 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
It could happen here
May 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Sometimes, life is beautiful

Wordle 1,428 2/6

⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
May 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
can people please stop posting working papers w/ the figures and tables put at the end? for those of us who read papers on tablets, this is EXTREMELY annoying. just put them where they would go in the published version. then change later if needed for publication.
May 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This is cool: new data on party registration for ~28M workers. Also excited that they’re making the dataset public. Open data is the way! Paper here: ssrn.com/abstract=510...
April 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Reposted by Reilly Steel
Our paper "GERDA: The German Election Database" is out in Nature: Scientific Data!

We collected and harmonized election results for federal, state, and local elections for 1990-2021.

Updates for more recent elections, pre-1990 elections, and county elections soon!
April 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Updated crosswalk between BoardEx and @adambonica.bsky.social's DIME database available for download: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...

The new version links to v4.0 of DIME, with data through the 2024 election.
doi.org
April 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM