Liz Suhay
@lizsuhay.bsky.social
Political scientist at American University. Studying political psychology / socioeconomic inequality / politicization of science. www.elizabethsuhay.com
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October is here and so is the latest issue of Political Psychology! This issue is jam-packed with 25 original articles. Check it out online here: buff.ly/cxAMGba
October 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
October is here and so is the latest issue of Political Psychology! This issue is jam-packed with 25 original articles. Check it out online here: buff.ly/cxAMGba
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Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
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Know any great political science educators?
Nominate them for the APSA Distinguished Teaching Award committee.
I'm on the committee and happy to answer Qs
✅ Self-nominations welcome
🗓️ Deadline: Feb. 11.
Apply: apsa.secure-platform.com/a/solicitati...
More info : apsanet.org/programs/aps...
Nominate them for the APSA Distinguished Teaching Award committee.
I'm on the committee and happy to answer Qs
✅ Self-nominations welcome
🗓️ Deadline: Feb. 11.
Apply: apsa.secure-platform.com/a/solicitati...
More info : apsanet.org/programs/aps...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Know any great political science educators?
Nominate them for the APSA Distinguished Teaching Award committee.
I'm on the committee and happy to answer Qs
✅ Self-nominations welcome
🗓️ Deadline: Feb. 11.
Apply: apsa.secure-platform.com/a/solicitati...
More info : apsanet.org/programs/aps...
Nominate them for the APSA Distinguished Teaching Award committee.
I'm on the committee and happy to answer Qs
✅ Self-nominations welcome
🗓️ Deadline: Feb. 11.
Apply: apsa.secure-platform.com/a/solicitati...
More info : apsanet.org/programs/aps...
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The 1970s were not that long ago, but back then, conservatives actually grappled with questions about how to help to poor people and the solution they came up with was "just give them money until they're no longer poor."
And if that blew your mind, read up on the Family Assistance Plan, the proposal from Milton Friedman (!) that Nixon embraced -- would've been essentially a negative income tax for the poor in which they'd get cash payments.
The bizarre tale of President Nixon and his basic income bill
In 1969 President Richard Nixon was on the verge of implementing a basic income for poor families in America. It promised to be a revolutionary step – had the President not changed his mind at t...
thecorrespondent.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The 1970s were not that long ago, but back then, conservatives actually grappled with questions about how to help to poor people and the solution they came up with was "just give them money until they're no longer poor."
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The divide between rich and poor in the U.S. has become more pronounced in recent months. Wealthier Americans, buoyed by a stock market that keeps setting records, have continued to spend freely. Lower-income households — stung by persistent inflation and a slowing labor market — are pulling back.
Wealthy Americans Are Spending. People With Less Are Struggling.
Data show a resilient economy. But that largely reflects spending by the rich, while others pull back amid high prices and a weakening labor market.
nyti.ms
October 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The divide between rich and poor in the U.S. has become more pronounced in recent months. Wealthier Americans, buoyed by a stock market that keeps setting records, have continued to spend freely. Lower-income households — stung by persistent inflation and a slowing labor market — are pulling back.
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It’s not a chilling effect. It would only be chilling if you had something horrid to say, and you don’t, do you? Certainly nothing critical of the regime, and absolutely no paraphrasing, not of anyone, not at this time!
A Beautiful Day for Saying Nothing
That chill in the air isn’t Jimmy Kimmel’s show being suspended. It’s just autumn!
www.theatlantic.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
It’s not a chilling effect. It would only be chilling if you had something horrid to say, and you don’t, do you? Certainly nothing critical of the regime, and absolutely no paraphrasing, not of anyone, not at this time!
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Gerrymandering has long been a problem, but this is a new level of insanity that should spur urgent demands for reform,” Roland Fryer writes in a guest essay. “My research suggests one way to do so.”
“Gerrymandering has long been a problem, but this is a new level of insanity that should spur urgent demands for reform,” Roland Fryer writes in a guest essay. “My research suggests one way to do so.”
Opinion | Geometry Solves Gerrymandering
A new level of partisan one-upmanship should spur urgent demands for reform.
nyti.ms
August 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Gerrymandering has long been a problem, but this is a new level of insanity that should spur urgent demands for reform,” Roland Fryer writes in a guest essay. “My research suggests one way to do so.”
“Gerrymandering has long been a problem, but this is a new level of insanity that should spur urgent demands for reform,” Roland Fryer writes in a guest essay. “My research suggests one way to do so.”
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Two leading economists reveal why today’s personal finance markets are rigged against us and offer practical steps to fix them.
On #NationalFinancialAwarenessDay, explore a sample of Fixed.
Out October 21 and available for preorder now: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
On #NationalFinancialAwarenessDay, explore a sample of Fixed.
Out October 21 and available for preorder now: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
August 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Two leading economists reveal why today’s personal finance markets are rigged against us and offer practical steps to fix them.
On #NationalFinancialAwarenessDay, explore a sample of Fixed.
Out October 21 and available for preorder now: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
On #NationalFinancialAwarenessDay, explore a sample of Fixed.
Out October 21 and available for preorder now: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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It's so weird to think about corporate world when you're used to government reality. The top person at any federal agency makes at most $225,700. Come in brand new with a bachelor's degree and you'll make at least $42k. So about a 5x difference between the lowest white-collar fed and the highest.
I'm going to restrict myself to one (two part) comment, which is:
1) the entire range runs from execs making 290x what their workers make to execs making 350x what their workers make, and
2) this should frame everything else such execs encourage you to be mad about
1) the entire range runs from execs making 290x what their workers make to execs making 350x what their workers make, and
2) this should frame everything else such execs encourage you to be mad about
C.E.O. pay increased last year, and the disparity with what employees are paid is the highest since companies began reporting this measure.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/b...
June 15, 2025 at 11:41 PM
It's so weird to think about corporate world when you're used to government reality. The top person at any federal agency makes at most $225,700. Come in brand new with a bachelor's degree and you'll make at least $42k. So about a 5x difference between the lowest white-collar fed and the highest.
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If you’re attending a protest today and happen to be a trumpet player who knows Star Wars. Great opportunity
Stay safe. Fight the Empire.
#NoKings #DemCast #DemVoice1
Stay safe. Fight the Empire.
#NoKings #DemCast #DemVoice1
June 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
If you’re attending a protest today and happen to be a trumpet player who knows Star Wars. Great opportunity
Stay safe. Fight the Empire.
#NoKings #DemCast #DemVoice1
Stay safe. Fight the Empire.
#NoKings #DemCast #DemVoice1
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Painful to watch this video. Imagine what you would think about the legitimacy of the regime if you saw a senior opposition leader treated this way in another country.
Sitting US Senator Alex Padilla forcibly wrestled to the ground and arrested by the FBI for attempting to ask a question of DHS secretary Kristin Noem.
June 13, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Painful to watch this video. Imagine what you would think about the legitimacy of the regime if you saw a senior opposition leader treated this way in another country.
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Social scientists have professional incentives to focus their work on what is _novel_ to people in their field, who they view as their core audience. The mental switch to be made is that what is _obvious_ to people in your field is often not obvious to ordinary citizens, and hence is valuable.
June 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Social scientists have professional incentives to focus their work on what is _novel_ to people in their field, who they view as their core audience. The mental switch to be made is that what is _obvious_ to people in your field is often not obvious to ordinary citizens, and hence is valuable.
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I'm on a podcast! I had a blast talking with @lucystats.bsky.social and @epiellie.bsky.social on @casualinfer.bsky.social! We cover all sorts of fun things: {marginaleffects}, defining estimands, fixed vs. random effects, & how to teach all this stats stuff in accessible ways #databs #EpiSky #rstats
Casual Inference: The Art of Clarity with Andrew Heiss | Season 6 Episode 6
Andrew Heiss is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Management and Policy at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Vincent’s “What is your estimand” s...
casualinfer.libsyn.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I'm on a podcast! I had a blast talking with @lucystats.bsky.social and @epiellie.bsky.social on @casualinfer.bsky.social! We cover all sorts of fun things: {marginaleffects}, defining estimands, fixed vs. random effects, & how to teach all this stats stuff in accessible ways #databs #EpiSky #rstats
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Here's my updated "what is going on packet" I started making for classes to help them figure out what the latest Trump announcement meant for them and togive them some context. Pls assume any typos or deranged statements were typed when I had the flu. sites.google.com/view/amgov10...
Class name - Updates and Background
There's a lot of changes the Trump administration is making and it's hard to keep up.
What makes it even harder is trying to figure out if what he is doing is normal but people are making a big deal o...
sites.google.com
May 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Here's my updated "what is going on packet" I started making for classes to help them figure out what the latest Trump announcement meant for them and togive them some context. Pls assume any typos or deranged statements were typed when I had the flu. sites.google.com/view/amgov10...
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If we stop calling these “grants” and start calling them “contracts,” it’s clearer to people why this is such an abuse of power. This wasn’t a bunch of gifts. This was a bunch of binding contracts between researchers and the US govt for specific agreed upon projects.
Research into quantum mechanics, volcanic eruptions and all sorts of other studies already underway canceled for no reason - a waste of resources, loss of innovation and undercutting expertise across multiple fields.
NEW: The National Science Foundation last week terminated 196 grants to Harvard amid the university's feud with Trump.
“Pure retribution,” one NSF employee told me of the administration axing $46 million in unfinished research. www.huffpost.com/entry/nation...
“Pure retribution,” one NSF employee told me of the administration axing $46 million in unfinished research. www.huffpost.com/entry/nation...
May 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
If we stop calling these “grants” and start calling them “contracts,” it’s clearer to people why this is such an abuse of power. This wasn’t a bunch of gifts. This was a bunch of binding contracts between researchers and the US govt for specific agreed upon projects.
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We are extremely pleased to announce the preliminary release of the combined pre-election and post-election dataset for the ANES 2024 Time Series Study!
The data and documentation can be downloaded from the ANES website at: electionstudies.org/data-center/...
Best,
The ANES Team
The data and documentation can be downloaded from the ANES website at: electionstudies.org/data-center/...
Best,
The ANES Team
2024 Time Series Study - ANES | American National Election Studies
electionstudies.org
May 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
We are extremely pleased to announce the preliminary release of the combined pre-election and post-election dataset for the ANES 2024 Time Series Study!
The data and documentation can be downloaded from the ANES website at: electionstudies.org/data-center/...
Best,
The ANES Team
The data and documentation can be downloaded from the ANES website at: electionstudies.org/data-center/...
Best,
The ANES Team
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The bipartisan effort of the 2000s to improve student learning has now been replaced by no national agenda from either party to improve educational performance, even as scores have declined & we haven't recovered from pandemic learning loss
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/u...
Has America Given Up on Children’s Learning?
www.nytimes.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The bipartisan effort of the 2000s to improve student learning has now been replaced by no national agenda from either party to improve educational performance, even as scores have declined & we haven't recovered from pandemic learning loss
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/u...
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1. As almost every research shows, young men have NOT turned to the right — compared to older men. In fact, they moved slightly to the left compared to older men.
Young WOMEN have turned to the left compared to older women.
Recent graph on Trump approval provides good example.
Young WOMEN have turned to the left compared to older women.
Recent graph on Trump approval provides good example.
May 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
1. As almost every research shows, young men have NOT turned to the right — compared to older men. In fact, they moved slightly to the left compared to older men.
Young WOMEN have turned to the left compared to older women.
Recent graph on Trump approval provides good example.
Young WOMEN have turned to the left compared to older women.
Recent graph on Trump approval provides good example.
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Writing a dissertation while working full time? Welcome to the Club – the 5PM Scholars Club! Targeted dissertation support for busy scholars: strategies, tips, accountability. Meets Mondays 6:30 PM ET starting May 20. buff.ly/F6c874p
May 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Writing a dissertation while working full time? Welcome to the Club – the 5PM Scholars Club! Targeted dissertation support for busy scholars: strategies, tips, accountability. Meets Mondays 6:30 PM ET starting May 20. buff.ly/F6c874p
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New, from me: I am dorky enough to actually read (ok, skim) budgets, and have never seen anything like Trump’s, which has converted a formal and professional document into a propagandistic screed to justify draconian cuts.
Lets take a look. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/budgets-as...
Lets take a look. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/budgets-as...
Budgets as Propaganda
Trump's budget proposal formalizes the paranoid style as government policy
donmoynihan.substack.com
May 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
New, from me: I am dorky enough to actually read (ok, skim) budgets, and have never seen anything like Trump’s, which has converted a formal and professional document into a propagandistic screed to justify draconian cuts.
Lets take a look. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/budgets-as...
Lets take a look. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/budgets-as...
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I love him I must marry him.
April 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I love him I must marry him.
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Available for preorder! My forthcoming book with Jeff Berry and Jim Glaser. Everyday Democracy: Liberals, Conservatives, and their Routine Political Lives. from @uchicagopress.bsky.social
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Everyday Democracy
How the everyday habits and attitudes of ordinary liberals and conservatives shape the health of American democracy. In Everyday Democracy, Jeffrey M. Berry, James M. Glaser, and Deborah J. Schildkrau...
press.uchicago.edu
April 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Available for preorder! My forthcoming book with Jeff Berry and Jim Glaser. Everyday Democracy: Liberals, Conservatives, and their Routine Political Lives. from @uchicagopress.bsky.social
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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The League of Women Voters declares a constitutional crisis - and we're doing something about it. If there's a cardinal rule of protecting American democracy, it's that you do not eff with the LWV.
LWV Declares United States in a “Constitutional Crisis,” Announces New Initiative to Mobilize Voters | League of Women Voters
On April 17, 2025, the nonpartisan League of Women Voters took the step of labeling our current moment a “constitutional crisis.” Concurrently, LWV announced a new initiative, Unite and Rise 8.5, to m...
www.lwv.org
April 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The League of Women Voters declares a constitutional crisis - and we're doing something about it. If there's a cardinal rule of protecting American democracy, it's that you do not eff with the LWV.
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Reminder: if you're at #MPSA2025 and free for lunch on Friday, come join the Swifties of Political Science at *All Too Well*!
MPSA-related timeline cleanse:
I and Meredith McLain are convening a lunch hour (and a half) meeting of the Swifties of Political Science!
When: Friday, April 4, 12:00-1:30
Where All Too Well (YES NAMED FOR THE SONG), 15 W. Washington Ave.
All Swifties welcome, non-Swifties tolerated!
I and Meredith McLain are convening a lunch hour (and a half) meeting of the Swifties of Political Science!
When: Friday, April 4, 12:00-1:30
Where All Too Well (YES NAMED FOR THE SONG), 15 W. Washington Ave.
All Swifties welcome, non-Swifties tolerated!
April 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Reminder: if you're at #MPSA2025 and free for lunch on Friday, come join the Swifties of Political Science at *All Too Well*!
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