Nico Napolio
@nicholasnapolio.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political Science at UC Riverside 🏳️🌈
The full video with explanations and audio is coming soon!
September 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The full video with explanations and audio is coming soon!
I've had a lot of fun this summer animating classic (but technical) political science theories for a class I'm teaching this quarter
These two figures confused me a TON when I first saw them in Pivotal Politics as a first year grad student
These two figures confused me a TON when I first saw them in Pivotal Politics as a first year grad student
September 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I've had a lot of fun this summer animating classic (but technical) political science theories for a class I'm teaching this quarter
These two figures confused me a TON when I first saw them in Pivotal Politics as a first year grad student
These two figures confused me a TON when I first saw them in Pivotal Politics as a first year grad student
I use a simple spatial model to show the conditions under which agency coalitions allow agencies to induce collective action problems.
I then test the implications of the model with decades of data and dozens of federal agencies.
I then test the implications of the model with decades of data and dozens of federal agencies.
August 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I use a simple spatial model to show the conditions under which agency coalitions allow agencies to induce collective action problems.
I then test the implications of the model with decades of data and dozens of federal agencies.
I then test the implications of the model with decades of data and dozens of federal agencies.
The final paper from my dissertation is now out in
@bjpols.bsky.social!
I argue that federal agencies collaborate in the policymaking process in order to induce collective action problems in Congress and to pit oversight committees against each other so that agency policies stick.
@bjpols.bsky.social!
I argue that federal agencies collaborate in the policymaking process in order to induce collective action problems in Congress and to pit oversight committees against each other so that agency policies stick.
August 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The final paper from my dissertation is now out in
@bjpols.bsky.social!
I argue that federal agencies collaborate in the policymaking process in order to induce collective action problems in Congress and to pit oversight committees against each other so that agency policies stick.
@bjpols.bsky.social!
I argue that federal agencies collaborate in the policymaking process in order to induce collective action problems in Congress and to pit oversight committees against each other so that agency policies stick.
🚨New publication in JPIPE🚨
I scale executive agencies along a liberal –conservative dimension using LLMs to produce dynamic measures of ideology spanning 1949–2020.
Estimates and pre-print available on my website, linked here: nicholasnapolio.com/research
I scale executive agencies along a liberal –conservative dimension using LLMs to produce dynamic measures of ideology spanning 1949–2020.
Estimates and pre-print available on my website, linked here: nicholasnapolio.com/research
July 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
🚨New publication in JPIPE🚨
I scale executive agencies along a liberal –conservative dimension using LLMs to produce dynamic measures of ideology spanning 1949–2020.
Estimates and pre-print available on my website, linked here: nicholasnapolio.com/research
I scale executive agencies along a liberal –conservative dimension using LLMs to produce dynamic measures of ideology spanning 1949–2020.
Estimates and pre-print available on my website, linked here: nicholasnapolio.com/research
Really happy to share my paper "Executive Policymaking Coalitions, Veto Activation, and Collective Action Problems" has been conditionally accepted at the BJPS!
June 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Really happy to share my paper "Executive Policymaking Coalitions, Veto Activation, and Collective Action Problems" has been conditionally accepted at the BJPS!
Very excited to share a new project I've been working on.
MCs have a statistically detectable preference for enforcing the separation of powers, but it is rarely big enough to dominate their policy preferences and affect their roll call vote choices.
Very early project - open to all feedback!
MCs have a statistically detectable preference for enforcing the separation of powers, but it is rarely big enough to dominate their policy preferences and affect their roll call vote choices.
Very early project - open to all feedback!
May 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Very excited to share a new project I've been working on.
MCs have a statistically detectable preference for enforcing the separation of powers, but it is rarely big enough to dominate their policy preferences and affect their roll call vote choices.
Very early project - open to all feedback!
MCs have a statistically detectable preference for enforcing the separation of powers, but it is rarely big enough to dominate their policy preferences and affect their roll call vote choices.
Very early project - open to all feedback!
Coming to MPSA 2025!
I've organized a conference-within-a-conference on the separation of powers. We've got a great lineup of scholars working at the intersection of legislative and executive politics.
And I'm very grateful to the @dfadcoalition.bsky.social for sponsoring the CwC!
I've organized a conference-within-a-conference on the separation of powers. We've got a great lineup of scholars working at the intersection of legislative and executive politics.
And I'm very grateful to the @dfadcoalition.bsky.social for sponsoring the CwC!
March 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Coming to MPSA 2025!
I've organized a conference-within-a-conference on the separation of powers. We've got a great lineup of scholars working at the intersection of legislative and executive politics.
And I'm very grateful to the @dfadcoalition.bsky.social for sponsoring the CwC!
I've organized a conference-within-a-conference on the separation of powers. We've got a great lineup of scholars working at the intersection of legislative and executive politics.
And I'm very grateful to the @dfadcoalition.bsky.social for sponsoring the CwC!
You're welcome! I wanted to see whether agencies publish rules more frequently on pro forma vs normal legislative days. I don't have the underlying data anymore (dead hard drive...) but these were my super rudimentary models.
December 20, 2024 at 9:04 PM
You're welcome! I wanted to see whether agencies publish rules more frequently on pro forma vs normal legislative days. I don't have the underlying data anymore (dead hard drive...) but these were my super rudimentary models.
He makes an argument that is pretty political-science-y.
The admin state was created by liberals and was controlled by them until the conservative turn > liberal policies are the SQ > impediments to change entrench SQs disfavored by conservatives > conservatives should embrace administrative power
The admin state was created by liberals and was controlled by them until the conservative turn > liberal policies are the SQ > impediments to change entrench SQs disfavored by conservatives > conservatives should embrace administrative power
November 21, 2024 at 5:52 PM
He makes an argument that is pretty political-science-y.
The admin state was created by liberals and was controlled by them until the conservative turn > liberal policies are the SQ > impediments to change entrench SQs disfavored by conservatives > conservatives should embrace administrative power
The admin state was created by liberals and was controlled by them until the conservative turn > liberal policies are the SQ > impediments to change entrench SQs disfavored by conservatives > conservatives should embrace administrative power
I'm happy to announce that Jeff Jenkins and I have signed a contract with Cambridge University Press to write the book, "Political Parties, Congressional Politics, and the American Civil War."
October 20, 2023 at 10:07 PM
I'm happy to announce that Jeff Jenkins and I have signed a contract with Cambridge University Press to write the book, "Political Parties, Congressional Politics, and the American Civil War."
My article “Executive Coalition Building” is now published open access in the Journal of Public Policy 🎉
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 12, 2023 at 2:31 PM
My article “Executive Coalition Building” is now published open access in the Journal of Public Policy 🎉
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I’m very excited to share the program for this fall’s SoCal Political Institutions and Political Economy Conference hosted by @ucrpolisci.bsky.social (co-organized by
@drdrmiller.bsky.social and myself)
If you’re interested in attending, please contact David or me.
@drdrmiller.bsky.social and myself)
If you’re interested in attending, please contact David or me.
October 10, 2023 at 5:49 PM
I’m very excited to share the program for this fall’s SoCal Political Institutions and Political Economy Conference hosted by @ucrpolisci.bsky.social (co-organized by
@drdrmiller.bsky.social and myself)
If you’re interested in attending, please contact David or me.
@drdrmiller.bsky.social and myself)
If you’re interested in attending, please contact David or me.