Excited to share new work in the Journal of Political Marketing w/terrific grad student Seon Bae.

Using 1900-2022 data on *both* House & Senate; we find candidate quality & incumbency continues bicameral decline in salience but amateurs might've cost McConnell the majority.

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Excited to see our article out at JPIPE, especially in the issue commemorating the 30th anniversary of Cox & McCubbins' Legislative Leviathan.

Josh Ryan & I ask are there exogenous sources of variation in ideological policy concessions the majority makes to the minority in Congress?

Yes!

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Interesting new poll on the mass public's approval of the U.S. Congress...but is 8% the new "normal?"

Nope, looks like the chaos in theHouse might be drawing congressional approval to *historic* lows according to universe of polling from 1974-2022.

8% approval is the third lowest ever recorded!