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Dan Thompson
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Researcher studying US elections. Asst Prof of Political Science, UCLA.
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johnsides.bsky.social
Just-published research shows that partisan election officials don't appear to favor their own party. New from me @goodauth.bsky.social:

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Partisan election officials don’t advantage their own party
New research finds electing partisan local election officials doesn’t lead to more votes for that party’s presidential candidate.
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April 18, 2024 at 2:06 PM
dthompson.bsky.social
Private donors gave more than $350M to support election administration in 2020. Many critics argued that these grants swung the election from Trump to Biden. In a new paper, @apoorvalal.com and I find that these grants did not provide Democrats a noticeable advantage.

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October 10, 2023 at 4:03 PM
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jengaudette.bsky.social
Guess I should post something here, so I’m linking my job market paper! I examine the effects of ideological polarization on local politics through the lens of police union endorsements. tinyurl.com/2s7kdpem
September 26, 2023 at 2:16 AM
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mattgrossmann.bsky.social
Partisan election administrators don’t tip the scales

Electing a Democratic or Republican clerk doesn't change election results or turnout

New #ScienceOfPolitics podcast / interview transcript with Daniel Thompson
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Partisan election administrators don't tip the scales - Niskanen Center
Electing a Democrat vs. a Republican as a county clerk does not affect subsequent election results or turnout.
www.niskanencenter.org
September 20, 2023 at 5:33 PM
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wpmarble.bsky.social
The white working class has steadily become part of the Republican base while whites w/ college degrees have become Democratic. In a new paper, I study the issue basis of this realignment, showing that both economic and cultural issues have contributed.

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Title page for the paper "What Explains Educational Polarization Among White Voters? by William Marble (September 2023). Abstract: Over the past 40 years of American politics, college-educated white voters have defected from the Republican Party, while the white working class has become a reliable source of Republican support. I study the issue basis of this realignment. To do so, I generate over-time estimates of public opinion on four broad issue domains from 1984 to 2020 and develop a theoretical framework to understand how issue attitudes translate into electoral coalitions. Using this framework, I find that both economic and cultural issues have contributed to the observed realignment. College-educated white voters have become increasingly liberal on economic issues since the mid-2000s; college-educated voters now express more liberal views than working class voters on every issue domain. Over the same time period, cultural issues have become more important for the voting decision
September 18, 2023 at 5:15 PM
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aecoppock.bsky.social
It's publication day for "Research Design: Declaration, Diagnosis, and Redesign" from @PrincetonUPress!
-- or more memorably, "the DeclareDesign book"
illustrious coauthors: @graemeblair.bsky.social and Macartan Humphreys

amazon: tinyurl.com/rdssddr
free online: book.declaredesign.org

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Cover of Research Design in the Social Sciences: Declaration, Diagnosis, and Redesign by Graeme Blair, Alexander Coppock, and Macartan Humphreys
August 22, 2023 at 1:57 PM