Ursula Hackett
@uhackett.bsky.social
Reader in Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London | President of the APSA Education Politics and Policy Section | Author of America's Voucher Politics: How Elites Learned to Hide the State
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In voting for Prop 50, California has upended two centuries of redistricting tradition writes @uhackett.bsky.social of @royalholloway.bsky.social
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In voting for Prop 50, California has upended two centuries of redistricting tradition | USAPP
The passage of the measure is extraordinary given voters’ usual dislike for gerrymandering.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
In voting for Prop 50, California has upended two centuries of redistricting tradition writes @uhackett.bsky.social of @royalholloway.bsky.social
blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
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New issue! includes articles from bsky-ers @johnadearborn.bsky.social @uhackett.bsky.social @trounstine.bsky.social @michaelgreenberger.bsky.social @ayakohiramatsu.bsky.social and much more!
NEW ISSUE from @studiesapd.bsky.social -
Studies in American Political Development - Volume 39 - Issue 2 - October 2025 - https://cup.org/3KL7Eyo
#OpenAccess
Studies in American Political Development - Volume 39 - Issue 2 - October 2025 - https://cup.org/3KL7Eyo
#OpenAccess
October 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
New issue! includes articles from bsky-ers @johnadearborn.bsky.social @uhackett.bsky.social @trounstine.bsky.social @michaelgreenberger.bsky.social @ayakohiramatsu.bsky.social and much more!
Thrilled to announce the publication of my paper Redrawing Democracy: Quantifying House District Continuity and Change, 1789–2024. I trace how U.S. House districts evolved since the Founding - and when/why mapmakers protect old lines instead of redrawing them. - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Redrawing Democracy: Quantifying House District Continuity and Change, 1789–2024 | Studies in American Political Development | Cambridge Core
Redrawing Democracy: Quantifying House District Continuity and Change, 1789–2024 - Volume 39 Issue 2
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October 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Thrilled to announce the publication of my paper Redrawing Democracy: Quantifying House District Continuity and Change, 1789–2024. I trace how U.S. House districts evolved since the Founding - and when/why mapmakers protect old lines instead of redrawing them. - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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🚨Hiring a fully funded (3.5 years) PhD for the @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social to research social media and politics. Candidates should have quantitative/computational skills and/or be interested in content curation/moderation. UK home candidates only unfortunately. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/hquftp...
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September 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
🚨Hiring a fully funded (3.5 years) PhD for the @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social to research social media and politics. Candidates should have quantitative/computational skills and/or be interested in content curation/moderation. UK home candidates only unfortunately. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/hquftp...
I really enjoyed talking with MIT’s Andrea Campbell about her fascinating new book, Taxation and Resentment (Princeton, 2025) 📖🎧🎙️
Why are Americans sceptical of taxes? It’s not simple self-interest or partisanship - racial resentment is key.
🎙️ Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/taxation-and...
Why are Americans sceptical of taxes? It’s not simple self-interest or partisanship - racial resentment is key.
🎙️ Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/taxation-and...
Andrea Louise Campbell, "Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax Attitudes" (Princeton UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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September 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I really enjoyed talking with MIT’s Andrea Campbell about her fascinating new book, Taxation and Resentment (Princeton, 2025) 📖🎧🎙️
Why are Americans sceptical of taxes? It’s not simple self-interest or partisanship - racial resentment is key.
🎙️ Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/taxation-and...
Why are Americans sceptical of taxes? It’s not simple self-interest or partisanship - racial resentment is key.
🎙️ Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/taxation-and...
Thrilled to publish my paper in a symposium on Rogers Smith & Desmond King’s America’s New Racial Battle Lines.
I build on their “repair” vs. “protect” framework to rethink America’s racial policy alliances & dilemmas.
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0141...
I build on their “repair” vs. “protect” framework to rethink America’s racial policy alliances & dilemmas.
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0141...
Rethinking America’s racial policy alliances: beyond “repair” and “protect”
In America’s New Racial Battle Lines, King and Smith offer a compelling framework for understanding contemporary American politics through two polarized racial policy alliances – “repair” and “prot...
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September 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Thrilled to publish my paper in a symposium on Rogers Smith & Desmond King’s America’s New Racial Battle Lines.
I build on their “repair” vs. “protect” framework to rethink America’s racial policy alliances & dilemmas.
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0141...
I build on their “repair” vs. “protect” framework to rethink America’s racial policy alliances & dilemmas.
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0141...
🧵 1/ Thrilled to share that my new paper is out in Studies in American Political Development:
"Redrawing Democracy: Quantifying House District Continuity and Change, 1789–2024"
It’s the first long-run empirical analysis of how much U.S. House districts actually change.
"Redrawing Democracy: Quantifying House District Continuity and Change, 1789–2024"
It’s the first long-run empirical analysis of how much U.S. House districts actually change.
May 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🧵 1/ Thrilled to share that my new paper is out in Studies in American Political Development:
"Redrawing Democracy: Quantifying House District Continuity and Change, 1789–2024"
It’s the first long-run empirical analysis of how much U.S. House districts actually change.
"Redrawing Democracy: Quantifying House District Continuity and Change, 1789–2024"
It’s the first long-run empirical analysis of how much U.S. House districts actually change.
📢 Join us for the APSA Education Politics and Policy Winter Virtual Conference!
🗓️ Feb 26–27, 9am–12.30pm PT / 12pm–3.30pm ET / 5pm-8.30pm GMT via Zoom.
🗓️ Feb 26–27, 9am–12.30pm PT / 12pm–3.30pm ET / 5pm-8.30pm GMT via Zoom.
February 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
📢 Join us for the APSA Education Politics and Policy Winter Virtual Conference!
🗓️ Feb 26–27, 9am–12.30pm PT / 12pm–3.30pm ET / 5pm-8.30pm GMT via Zoom.
🗓️ Feb 26–27, 9am–12.30pm PT / 12pm–3.30pm ET / 5pm-8.30pm GMT via Zoom.
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I think we should take this story from the Times today (and picked up by many other outlets) with an enormous pinch of salt for two reason (mini thread):
www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...
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Gen Z doubts about democracy laid bare in ‘worrying’ survey
More than half believe the UK should be a dictatorship and there’s a stark gender divide over equality, research for Channel 4 shows
www.thetimes.com
January 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I think we should take this story from the Times today (and picked up by many other outlets) with an enormous pinch of salt for two reason (mini thread):
www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...
www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...
Submit your education politics and policy papers to Section 51: Education Politics and Policy @apsaedpolitics.bsky.social. We look forward to receiving your submissions for #APSA2025 by the January 15!
Submit your #APSA2025 proposals by Jan. 15th! Join us for the 121st APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Sept. 11–14, in Vancouver, Canada, to address the latest scholarship in #politicalscience. The 2025 theme is “Reimagining Politics, Power, & Peoplehood in Crisis Times.” connect.apsanet.org/apsa2025
January 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Submit your education politics and policy papers to Section 51: Education Politics and Policy @apsaedpolitics.bsky.social. We look forward to receiving your submissions for #APSA2025 by the January 15!
The APSA Education Politics WINTER VIRTUAL CONFERENCE is approaching! @apsaedpolitics.bsky.social Mark your diaries - Feb 26/27. Featuring two keynote events and excellent panels. *Free* to both members and non-members. Contact me for the Zoom links! Schedule here: connect.apsanet.org/s51/events/
Events
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January 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The APSA Education Politics WINTER VIRTUAL CONFERENCE is approaching! @apsaedpolitics.bsky.social Mark your diaries - Feb 26/27. Featuring two keynote events and excellent panels. *Free* to both members and non-members. Contact me for the Zoom links! Schedule here: connect.apsanet.org/s51/events/
Calling junior scholars of education and APE! Final call for The Consortium on the APE Junior Working Group Spring Semester! Deadline *today*. @apsaedpolitics.bsky.social is co-sponsoring a session on education, markets and governance in the US. Submit here: forms.gle/tUJi1yLnDd4m....
Spring 2025: Consortium on the American Political Economy Junior Working Group
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January 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Calling junior scholars of education and APE! Final call for The Consortium on the APE Junior Working Group Spring Semester! Deadline *today*. @apsaedpolitics.bsky.social is co-sponsoring a session on education, markets and governance in the US. Submit here: forms.gle/tUJi1yLnDd4m....
Delighted to announce the publication of my latest article in Perspectives! Litigating Policy Drift: Frozen Categories and Thresholds in Court | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Litigating Policy Drift: Frozen Categories and Thresholds in Court | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Litigating Policy Drift: Frozen Categories and Thresholds in Court - Volume 22 Issue 4
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January 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Delighted to announce the publication of my latest article in Perspectives! Litigating Policy Drift: Frozen Categories and Thresholds in Court | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...