Isaiah Johnson
@icjohnson.bsky.social
Politics PhD candidate at Princeton | University of Houston alumni | Interested in the political economy of race, American politics, formal theory and methods | Occasionally an empiricist | On the job market: isaiahcjohnson.com
Democracy lives to fight another day. 🇺🇸
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Democracy lives to fight another day. 🇺🇸
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Our next candidate is Lucia Lopez. Lucia’s research explains how public opinion and public policy intersect, particularly in the domain of welfare. Her work is funded by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Rapoport Family Foundation. Find out more at Lucia-Lopez.com.
October 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Our next candidate is Lucia Lopez. Lucia’s research explains how public opinion and public policy intersect, particularly in the domain of welfare. Her work is funded by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Rapoport Family Foundation. Find out more at Lucia-Lopez.com.
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#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social -
The Path of Law: Legal Uncertainty and Issues of First Impression in the U.S. Courts of Appeals - https://cup.org/42XsrF0
- @anthonytaboni.bsky.social
#FirstView
The Path of Law: Legal Uncertainty and Issues of First Impression in the U.S. Courts of Appeals - https://cup.org/42XsrF0
- @anthonytaboni.bsky.social
#FirstView
September 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social -
The Path of Law: Legal Uncertainty and Issues of First Impression in the U.S. Courts of Appeals - https://cup.org/42XsrF0
- @anthonytaboni.bsky.social
#FirstView
The Path of Law: Legal Uncertainty and Issues of First Impression in the U.S. Courts of Appeals - https://cup.org/42XsrF0
- @anthonytaboni.bsky.social
#FirstView
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When they ask my 2 youngest sons what their race is…🇲🇽
October 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM
When they ask my 2 youngest sons what their race is…🇲🇽
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quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods
October 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods
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🔎 Job Market Spotlight: Meet Lucia Lopez, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Houston and licensed attorney. Her research explores access to justice, legitimacy of state legal institutions and social policy. Learn more: www.lucia-lopez.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🔎 Job Market Spotlight: Meet Lucia Lopez, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Houston and licensed attorney. Her research explores access to justice, legitimacy of state legal institutions and social policy. Learn more: www.lucia-lopez.com
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Congratulations to PhD Candidate Lucía López (@llopez.bsky.social) on being awarded the 2025–26 Early Career Fellowship from the APSA Experimental Research Section (@experimentsapsa.bsky.social)! 🎉 Lucía is on the academic job market this year -- learn more about her research at lucia-lopez.com.
September 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Lucía López (@llopez.bsky.social) on being awarded the 2025–26 Early Career Fellowship from the APSA Experimental Research Section (@experimentsapsa.bsky.social)! 🎉 Lucía is on the academic job market this year -- learn more about her research at lucia-lopez.com.
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In his job market paper, Christian examines how permanent oil revenue shortfalls reshape distributional conflicts in oil-dependent states and drive targeted institutional reforms to strengthen public goods provision, offering insight into how these states will respond to the clean energy transition.
September 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
In his job market paper, Christian examines how permanent oil revenue shortfalls reshape distributional conflicts in oil-dependent states and drive targeted institutional reforms to strengthen public goods provision, offering insight into how these states will respond to the clean energy transition.
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Why does climate finance routinely stall between promise and delivery? Fiona Bare's job market paper shows how dual features of climate finance - mixed public-private benefits and pervasive uncertainty - create strategic frictions between donors and recipients that delay dealmaking.
September 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Why does climate finance routinely stall between promise and delivery? Fiona Bare's job market paper shows how dual features of climate finance - mixed public-private benefits and pervasive uncertainty - create strategic frictions between donors and recipients that delay dealmaking.
🚨I'm on the job market! 🚨
My job market paper employs a formal model to examine the role of racial competency in shaping the behavior of Multiracial politicians. My broader dissertation examines how Multiracial Americans are a threat to racial solidarity. For more, visit www.isaiahcjohnson.com.
My job market paper employs a formal model to examine the role of racial competency in shaping the behavior of Multiracial politicians. My broader dissertation examines how Multiracial Americans are a threat to racial solidarity. For more, visit www.isaiahcjohnson.com.
September 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
🚨I'm on the job market! 🚨
My job market paper employs a formal model to examine the role of racial competency in shaping the behavior of Multiracial politicians. My broader dissertation examines how Multiracial Americans are a threat to racial solidarity. For more, visit www.isaiahcjohnson.com.
My job market paper employs a formal model to examine the role of racial competency in shaping the behavior of Multiracial politicians. My broader dissertation examines how Multiracial Americans are a threat to racial solidarity. For more, visit www.isaiahcjohnson.com.
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…and I’ve successfully defended my dissertation at @princetonpolitics.bsky.social! Thanks to @nolanmc.bsky.social @jkastellec.bsky.social Gleason Judd and Frances Lee for all the tough questions and invaluable advice!
August 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
…and I’ve successfully defended my dissertation at @princetonpolitics.bsky.social! Thanks to @nolanmc.bsky.social @jkastellec.bsky.social Gleason Judd and Frances Lee for all the tough questions and invaluable advice!
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well-qualified individuals for a tenured or tenure track faculty position in public law.
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
August 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
well-qualified individuals for a tenured or tenure track faculty position in public law.
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
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It's been bugging me that we don't have a general REP listserv since the last one blew up, so I made a new google group. Just click the below link and click the "Join Group" button. Please share with other REP folks freely.
groups.google.com/g/race-and-e...
groups.google.com/g/race-and-e...
Race and Ethnic Politics - Google Groups
groups.google.com
July 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
It's been bugging me that we don't have a general REP listserv since the last one blew up, so I made a new google group. Just click the below link and click the "Join Group" button. Please share with other REP folks freely.
groups.google.com/g/race-and-e...
groups.google.com/g/race-and-e...
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I want to say that I CAN believe what is happening to my undocumented people, Mexican or not.
The political impulse to forcibly remove folks for wanting to work and live in the US has always been with us. Now the rest of you get to see it in real time. We haven’t been exaggerating.
The political impulse to forcibly remove folks for wanting to work and live in the US has always been with us. Now the rest of you get to see it in real time. We haven’t been exaggerating.
June 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I want to say that I CAN believe what is happening to my undocumented people, Mexican or not.
The political impulse to forcibly remove folks for wanting to work and live in the US has always been with us. Now the rest of you get to see it in real time. We haven’t been exaggerating.
The political impulse to forcibly remove folks for wanting to work and live in the US has always been with us. Now the rest of you get to see it in real time. We haven’t been exaggerating.
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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
www.queensu.ca
June 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
I am honored to have received the 2025 George Kateb Preceptor Award! More importantly, thank you to my amazing students who motivated me to be a better TA. Without them, this wouldn’t have been possible.
Congratulations to Daniel Lyng, Isaiah Johnson, and Tetsekela Anyiam-Osigwe, recipients of the 2025 George Kateb Preceptor Award, which is given annually to recognize the best graduate student preceptors in the Department of Politics.
May 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I am honored to have received the 2025 George Kateb Preceptor Award! More importantly, thank you to my amazing students who motivated me to be a better TA. Without them, this wouldn’t have been possible.
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FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
“What I’m concerned about is the chilling effect that this is going to have on this generation of potential future scientists who aren’t going to come back.”
This Year’s Ph.D. Admissions Cycle is Leaving Students in the Lurch
Colleges are pausing and resuming offers, reducing spots, and delaying decisions as the Trump administration pushes for research-funding cuts.
www.chronicle.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“What I’m concerned about is the chilling effect that this is going to have on this generation of potential future scientists who aren’t going to come back.”
Human capital is finite. You lose graduate student and faculty talent and that capital moves with them. It creates a dearth across numerous fields that impacts knowledge production and cascades beyond our generation - utterly ridiculous
I created a brief spreadsheet of reductions I've heard of so far. Any additions you know of (especially if you have the links/receipts) would be great: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Graduate Reductions Across Biomedical Sciences (2025)
docs.google.com
February 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Human capital is finite. You lose graduate student and faculty talent and that capital moves with them. It creates a dearth across numerous fields that impacts knowledge production and cascades beyond our generation - utterly ridiculous
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Stark evidence that DOGE’s layoffs are based on ideological goals, not efficiency. For a sense of the magnitude, the distance between liberal and conservative agencies is ~3 pts, so liberal agencies are >60 pct pts more likely to have layoffs. Huge! Meanwhile, size and budget effects are small.
3/ The answer? Yes—overwhelmingly so. It’s by far the strongest predictor.
Agency size didn’t matter—larger agencies aren't more likely to be facing firings/layoffs. Bigger budgets made firings/layoffs slightly more likely but the effect was modest.
Agency size didn’t matter—larger agencies aren't more likely to be facing firings/layoffs. Bigger budgets made firings/layoffs slightly more likely but the effect was modest.
February 20, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Stark evidence that DOGE’s layoffs are based on ideological goals, not efficiency. For a sense of the magnitude, the distance between liberal and conservative agencies is ~3 pts, so liberal agencies are >60 pct pts more likely to have layoffs. Huge! Meanwhile, size and budget effects are small.
Texas is lucky to have you! Congrats 🤘
Now that the ink has dried, I'm excited to share than I'm head to @utaustin.bsky.social! I'll be spending 2025-2026 as a posdoc before joining the Department of Government as an assistant professor. I'm incredibly excited and very thankful to all who helped me get here.
February 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Texas is lucky to have you! Congrats 🤘
This goes without saying, but in times when people like the Proud Boys get pardoned, I think of the countless innocent Black lives and autonomy lost.
January 23, 2025 at 3:09 AM
This goes without saying, but in times when people like the Proud Boys get pardoned, I think of the countless innocent Black lives and autonomy lost.
Interesting information as a recent resident of NJ (4 years now) from Texas (where state police are abundant). State Troopers almost nonexistent since my arrival. Almost shocking no police activity on the highway.
This is really damning. NJ State Troopers, unhappy with a report on racial bias incidents, just stopped doing traffic enforcement, and seemingly weren’t on the roads (as evidenced by a vehicle from a fatal hit and run being abandoned for hours before anyone noticed).
For eight months, traffic enforcement citations on New Jersey’s highways plummeted by 81% compared with the year before. The unrivaled reduction is now the subject of a criminal investigation.
December 8, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Interesting information as a recent resident of NJ (4 years now) from Texas (where state police are abundant). State Troopers almost nonexistent since my arrival. Almost shocking no police activity on the highway.