Francisco Garfias
@fgarfias.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Political Science at Duke University
http://franciscogarfias.com/
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Excited to share the launch of my new center at UCSD focused on trust and transparency in U.S. elections. We will be supporting research on election administration and voter confidence through research-practice partnerships. More to come! today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san...
UC San Diego Launches Nonpartisan Center to Build Trust in US Elections
The Center for Transparent and Trusted Elections, with the support of a $2.5 million grant from the Election Trust Initiative, will test new ways to strengthen public confidence in U.S. elections acro...
today.ucsd.edu
October 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Excited to share the launch of my new center at UCSD focused on trust and transparency in U.S. elections. We will be supporting research on election administration and voter confidence through research-practice partnerships. More to come! today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san...
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Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.
October 2, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.
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An incredible embarrassment for an educational institution: www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Columbia Expels, Suspends Student Protesters
The move comes during reports that the institution is nearing a deal with the Trump administration to restore hundreds of millions in federal funding.
www.insidehighered.com
August 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
An incredible embarrassment for an educational institution: www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Best thing I’ve read on the assault on higher education.
For the history books, whoever will be writing them.
For the history books, whoever will be writing them.
July 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Best thing I’ve read on the assault on higher education.
For the history books, whoever will be writing them.
For the history books, whoever will be writing them.
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A timely and trenchant piece by Suresh Naidu. When future generations sift through the wreckage of our era, they’ll find it strewn with the institutional and personal failures of leaders both great and small.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
Opinion | Columbia’s Administrators Are Fooling Themselves
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM
A timely and trenchant piece by Suresh Naidu. When future generations sift through the wreckage of our era, they’ll find it strewn with the institutional and personal failures of leaders both great and small.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
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🚨 A new kind of political science textbook has arrived—and it might just disrupt the entire textbook industry. It’s called A Political Science Experiment, and here’s why you should care. 👇
🔗 politicsexperiment.com
🚨 A new kind of political science textbook has arrived—and it might just disrupt the entire textbook industry. It’s called A Political Science Experiment, and here’s why you should care. 👇
🔗 politicsexperiment.com
Home Page - A Political Science Experiment
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July 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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🚨 A new kind of political science textbook has arrived—and it might just disrupt the entire textbook industry. It’s called A Political Science Experiment, and here’s why you should care. 👇
🔗 politicsexperiment.com
🚨 A new kind of political science textbook has arrived—and it might just disrupt the entire textbook industry. It’s called A Political Science Experiment, and here’s why you should care. 👇
🔗 politicsexperiment.com
I officially start at Duke today. I am thrilled to join and look forward to new collaborations and to engaging with colleagues and students.
July 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I officially start at Duke today. I am thrilled to join and look forward to new collaborations and to engaging with colleagues and students.
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Check out our article in Broadstreet about our ambitious project!
www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-making...
www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-making...
The Making of America: migration in colonial times
By Leticia Arroyo-Abad (CUNY) and Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez (Yale)
www.broadstreet.blog
April 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Check out our article in Broadstreet about our ambitious project!
www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-making...
www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-making...
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New, from me: Marco Rubio used to boast that he was banned from China, calling it a totalitarian state.
Now he combines a) new surveillance capabilities to monitor and punish international students, with b) little accountability or due process. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...
Now he combines a) new surveillance capabilities to monitor and punish international students, with b) little accountability or due process. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...
The Attack on International Students
New surveillance and punishment systems are a warning to us all
donmoynihan.substack.com
April 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
New, from me: Marco Rubio used to boast that he was banned from China, calling it a totalitarian state.
Now he combines a) new surveillance capabilities to monitor and punish international students, with b) little accountability or due process. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...
Now he combines a) new surveillance capabilities to monitor and punish international students, with b) little accountability or due process. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...
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“If universities are not willing to stand up for the free speech and academic freedom of their students and faculty, then what, if any, values do they stand for?”
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In this post, I commend universities that filed amicus brief in AAUP case challenging speech-based deportations of foreign students, but also explain why this isn't adequate substitute for universities bringing a case of their own: reason.com/volokh/2025/...
Over Eighty Universities File Amicus Brief in Case Challenging Trump's Speech-Based Deportations of Non-citizen Students
In a previous post, I urged universities to band together to file a lawsuit challenging Donald Trump's policy of speech-based deportation of foreign
reason.com
April 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
“If universities are not willing to stand up for the free speech and academic freedom of their students and faculty, then what, if any, values do they stand for?”
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@ucsandiego.bsky.social should follow the Tufts Fletcher faculty recommendation that universities join forces to file a class action suit against this administration.
reason.com/volokh/2025/...
reason.com/volokh/2025/...
Universities Should Challenge Trump's Speech-Based Deportations of Students in Court [Updated]
The Trump administration has been detaining and trying to deport immigrant and foreign students for their First-Amendment protected speech. That
reason.com
April 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
@ucsandiego.bsky.social should follow the Tufts Fletcher faculty recommendation that universities join forces to file a class action suit against this administration.
reason.com/volokh/2025/...
reason.com/volokh/2025/...
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This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
March 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
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I completely agree with this, no enabling in advance (looking at you Johns Hopkins)
In this piece, I endorse Tufts Fletcher School faculty's proposal that universities challenge Trump's speech-based deportations of non-citizen students in court, and explain why this strategy is much better than letting targeted students fend for themselves: reason.com/volokh/2025/...
Universities Should Challenge Trump's Speech-Based Deportations of Students in Court
The Trump administration has been detaining and trying to deport immigrant and foreign students for their First-Amendment protected speech. That
reason.com
March 31, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I completely agree with this, no enabling in advance (looking at you Johns Hopkins)
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NEW: Senior polisci colleagues @ Columbia endorse our letter on how we would respond to the Trump attack. For expidiency we 5 did not ask for other signatures. Grateful for strong show of unity. @vickymurillo.bsky.social @pagefortna.bsky.social
Letter: danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post...
Letter: danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post...
March 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
NEW: Senior polisci colleagues @ Columbia endorse our letter on how we would respond to the Trump attack. For expidiency we 5 did not ask for other signatures. Grateful for strong show of unity. @vickymurillo.bsky.social @pagefortna.bsky.social
Letter: danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post...
Letter: danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post...
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🚨New pre-print! It builds on the State Formation seminar that I teach at Yale, benefiting from rich conversations with brilliant students. The piece tackles state formation, state building, and outlines 3 paths of future research: civil wars, international constraints, and bureaucratic capacity.
From Territorial Consolidation to Bureaucratic Dominance: The Long Arc of State Development | Annual Reviews
Our understanding of state development—a term that encompasses both state formation and state building—has grown significantly in the last two decades. In this review, I outline the foundations of the...
www.annualreviews.org
March 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
🚨New pre-print! It builds on the State Formation seminar that I teach at Yale, benefiting from rich conversations with brilliant students. The piece tackles state formation, state building, and outlines 3 paths of future research: civil wars, international constraints, and bureaucratic capacity.
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The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run
The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.
www.theatlantic.com
March 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.
Diary
Week 1
open.substack.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.
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emagar.github.io/Elites-munic... Nuevo post (1/2)
¿Quién abogará por la reelección?
Comenzó la cuenta regresiva para dinamitar la reelección municipal consecutiva
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February 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
emagar.github.io/Elites-munic... Nuevo post (1/2)
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Check out my new paper w Brenton and Emiel. Just out at World Politics: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
January 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Check out my new paper w Brenton and Emiel. Just out at World Politics: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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After years work assembling and organizing it, together with Bruno Calderón, John Marshall and José Luis Perez Castellanos, we present you the "Electoral precinct-level database for Mexican municipal elections" osf.io/6jteh/ dropbox.com/scl/fi/3kqnb...
December 27, 2024 at 4:24 PM
After years work assembling and organizing it, together with Bruno Calderón, John Marshall and José Luis Perez Castellanos, we present you the "Electoral precinct-level database for Mexican municipal elections" osf.io/6jteh/ dropbox.com/scl/fi/3kqnb...
Can the provision of public goods increase tax compliance?
In a new working paper with Anne Brockmeyer & Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, we study a large public investment experiment and find that local public infrastructure does not improve property tax compliance in Mexico City. #polisky #econsky
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In a new working paper with Anne Brockmeyer & Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, we study a large public investment experiment and find that local public infrastructure does not improve property tax compliance in Mexico City. #polisky #econsky
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August 5, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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Gunpowder-Empire Fiscal Legibility & State Development: Economic History/Political Economy Seminar
Francisco Garfias & Emily A. Sellars: "Fiscal Legibility & State Development" :: 2024-03-04 12:30 PST :: Philosophy 223, U.C. Berkeley……
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Francisco Garfias & Emily A. Sellars: "Fiscal Legibility & State Development" :: 2024-03-04 12:30 PST :: Philosophy 223, U.C. Berkeley……
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Gunpowder-Empire Fiscal Legibility & State Development: Economic History/Political Economy Seminar
Francisco Garfias & Emily A. Sellars: "Fiscal Legibility & State Development" :: 2024-03-04 12:30 PST :: Philosophy 223, U.C. Berkeley...
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March 4, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Gunpowder-Empire Fiscal Legibility & State Development: Economic History/Political Economy Seminar
Francisco Garfias & Emily A. Sellars: "Fiscal Legibility & State Development" :: 2024-03-04 12:30 PST :: Philosophy 223, U.C. Berkeley……
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Francisco Garfias & Emily A. Sellars: "Fiscal Legibility & State Development" :: 2024-03-04 12:30 PST :: Philosophy 223, U.C. Berkeley……
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Coming in 2024! Cover art day is a good day.
There are also blurbs and you can even order a copy: tinyurl.com/4e35mjef
Intro chapter: www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gailmard/em...
There are also blurbs and you can even order a copy: tinyurl.com/4e35mjef
Intro chapter: www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gailmard/em...
December 20, 2023 at 10:26 PM
Coming in 2024! Cover art day is a good day.
There are also blurbs and you can even order a copy: tinyurl.com/4e35mjef
Intro chapter: www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gailmard/em...
There are also blurbs and you can even order a copy: tinyurl.com/4e35mjef
Intro chapter: www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gailmard/em...
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Halloween update 🎃👻: NEW PAPER ALERT 👻🎃: want to learn about how recent findings in HPE are challenging our priors about the origins of state capacity? Here is my Annual Reviews on *Endogenous State Capacity*: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
October 31, 2023 at 3:25 PM
Halloween update 🎃👻: NEW PAPER ALERT 👻🎃: want to learn about how recent findings in HPE are challenging our priors about the origins of state capacity? Here is my Annual Reviews on *Endogenous State Capacity*: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....