NDSU has, apparently, hired a professional recruiter to help deal with the whole no demand problem.

Garnet Lake on the JMT

and the view of Muir Pass, from Wanda Lake, the evening before.

and the relevant confession

Return to society or walk back into the high Sierra to find the guy who hot-boxed the Muir Hut maybe an hour before I got there at 9am Saturday?

This earlier paper is part of the same project as our recent AJPS article. It provides a descriptive overview of vote-buying in Nepali elections, using a multi-methods approach combining a survey experiments, semi-structured interviews, and focus group discussions. doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

Happy to share this paper with Jeevan Baniya, @smeserve.bsky.social‬, and Brigitte Seim. We used multiple survey experiments to see how Nepali voters think about the trade-off between vote-buying and candidate provision of local public goods (schools, plumbing) in office. doi.org/10.1111/ajps... 1/

And this morning

Catalinas looked quite different in the morning and evening today.

Strongly recommend the Loons supporters' section, as long as you don't mind standing for extended periods of time (and even if you aren't an ardent supporter).

A few years ago, @danweitzel.net, John Gerring, @skaaning.bsky.social and I were curious how well one could predict subjective democracy measures using easy(ish) to code observables. Turns out, *quite* well, even out of sample. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...