Peter Radcliffe
@pmradcliffe.bsky.social
Political scientist turned institutional researcher. Democracy, science, education, equality, and cats. Come for the Minnesota boosterism, stay because I don't post much and you've forgotten you're following me.
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I just love this. The University of Minnesota Library has launched book club kits! Students can take out six copies of the same book to read with friends. College kids need this sort of stuff now more than ever. 📚📖💙
libguides.umn.edu/bookclubkits...
libguides.umn.edu/bookclubkits...
November 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I just love this. The University of Minnesota Library has launched book club kits! Students can take out six copies of the same book to read with friends. College kids need this sort of stuff now more than ever. 📚📖💙
libguides.umn.edu/bookclubkits...
libguides.umn.edu/bookclubkits...
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📣 I am recruiting PhD student(s) in Public Affairs (Fall '26) at the Humphrey School, University of Minnesota! Come join me to work on Development/ Labor/ Education/ Gender/ ECD/ Inequality - in a top-ranked, fully-funded PhD program! Details: www.hhh.umn.edu/doctor-philo... #EconSky #PoliSky
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Public Affairs
The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Public Affairs offers rigorous, advanced study that prepares researchers to enter academia or join highly respected institutions involved in cutting edge research in ...
www.hhh.umn.edu
October 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
📣 I am recruiting PhD student(s) in Public Affairs (Fall '26) at the Humphrey School, University of Minnesota! Come join me to work on Development/ Labor/ Education/ Gender/ ECD/ Inequality - in a top-ranked, fully-funded PhD program! Details: www.hhh.umn.edu/doctor-philo... #EconSky #PoliSky
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Another survey that shows a rebound in support for higher education. @cbwlezien.bsky.social
www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
Americans Recognize Nuances of Higher Ed’s Value
New data shows that confidence in higher education is on the rise and most Americans, regardless of party affiliation, share a similar vision for what colleges should prioritize.
www.insidehighered.com
July 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Another survey that shows a rebound in support for higher education. @cbwlezien.bsky.social
www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
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Delighted to see my article, "The Bureaucratic Origins of Political Theory," in print in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social. It is my favorite thing I've written, and I hope you'll read it.
Like most people, I learned in school that political theory began in Athens in the 5th c. BCE. This is wrong. (1/)
Like most people, I learned in school that political theory began in Athens in the 5th c. BCE. This is wrong. (1/)
June 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Delighted to see my article, "The Bureaucratic Origins of Political Theory," in print in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social. It is my favorite thing I've written, and I hope you'll read it.
Like most people, I learned in school that political theory began in Athens in the 5th c. BCE. This is wrong. (1/)
Like most people, I learned in school that political theory began in Athens in the 5th c. BCE. This is wrong. (1/)
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The neighborhood is getting ready for tomorrow
June 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The neighborhood is getting ready for tomorrow
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My full statement on the targeted murder of Minnesota Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and the shooting of Senator John Hoffman:
June 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
My full statement on the targeted murder of Minnesota Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and the shooting of Senator John Hoffman:
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Immigration is good, actually.
June 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Immigration is good, actually.
Excellent short thread on the importance of science communication in the social sciences, as well as a reference to an also excellent example of that work regarding the civil service.
this @adambonica.bsky.social piece deserves to be read beside the yeoman work that @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social have been doing. The dismantling of administrative expertise is one of those stories that is so big that pro journalists with beats find it hard to focus on or explain .
How to Dismantle a Democracy, One Job Posting at a Time
OPM’s new hiring memo imports the authoritarian playbook—quietly, bureaucratically, and by design.
data4democracy.substack.com
June 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Excellent short thread on the importance of science communication in the social sciences, as well as a reference to an also excellent example of that work regarding the civil service.
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This is absolutely essential reading in case you’re wondering what the wholesale dismantling of civil service work has to do with you. data4democracy.substack.com/p/how-to-dis...
How to Dismantle a Democracy, One Job Posting at a Time
OPM’s new hiring memo imports the authoritarian playbook—quietly, bureaucratically, and by design.
data4democracy.substack.com
June 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This is absolutely essential reading in case you’re wondering what the wholesale dismantling of civil service work has to do with you. data4democracy.substack.com/p/how-to-dis...
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Work requirements hurt poor people AND are a waste of money.
Arkansas spent $26 million on administrative costs for work requirements — and saw no increase in employment.
Georgia’s program cost $40 million in one year — 80% of that went to administrative and consulting costs.
Arkansas spent $26 million on administrative costs for work requirements — and saw no increase in employment.
Georgia’s program cost $40 million in one year — 80% of that went to administrative and consulting costs.
May 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Work requirements hurt poor people AND are a waste of money.
Arkansas spent $26 million on administrative costs for work requirements — and saw no increase in employment.
Georgia’s program cost $40 million in one year — 80% of that went to administrative and consulting costs.
Arkansas spent $26 million on administrative costs for work requirements — and saw no increase in employment.
Georgia’s program cost $40 million in one year — 80% of that went to administrative and consulting costs.
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Everyone needs to understand that dismantling NSF will have devastating long term consequences in our competitiveness and innovation in science, technology and beyond. 1/
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
www.science.org
May 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Everyone needs to understand that dismantling NSF will have devastating long term consequences in our competitiveness and innovation in science, technology and beyond. 1/
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"Woke" -- changing norms through social pressure -- is not, contra the reactionary centrists, another form of tyranny. It's the *alternative* to tyranny. It's new norms winning through the marketplace of ideas. The alternative is what we see now: enforcing norms via the threat of state violence.
May 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"Woke" -- changing norms through social pressure -- is not, contra the reactionary centrists, another form of tyranny. It's the *alternative* to tyranny. It's new norms winning through the marketplace of ideas. The alternative is what we see now: enforcing norms via the threat of state violence.
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in addition to the writing and the thinking, this is your chance to go to the library (you can go virtually from your computer) and read some reliable sources about a topic that interests you. (this is the real "do your own research"). you will learn things about the world we live in
This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.
May 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
in addition to the writing and the thinking, this is your chance to go to the library (you can go virtually from your computer) and read some reliable sources about a topic that interests you. (this is the real "do your own research"). you will learn things about the world we live in
"If there are recurring attributes that do come up, pointing to a broadly distinct occupational culture, they are an earnest sense of service mission and a reflexive aversion to attention and credit." - This rings true for the public sector staff I interact with every day. Hug a civil servant.
"The sheer scale and careening recklessness of what the Trump administration has already executed are generating public blowback that only promises to swell as the rolling effects of service disruptions, benefit interruptions, and job terminations are felt in every congressional district."
Michael Lewis’s Paean to Federal Workers Hits Differently Under DOGE
While Elon Musk paints federal bureaucrats as inefficient or worse, Lewis and other literary essayists shine a light on the quiet heroes of the civil service.
newrepublic.com
May 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"If there are recurring attributes that do come up, pointing to a broadly distinct occupational culture, they are an earnest sense of service mission and a reflexive aversion to attention and credit." - This rings true for the public sector staff I interact with every day. Hug a civil servant.
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It’s rarely comforting to appear on a government “list”
It was alarming in the ‘40s, for Japanese-Americans. Likewise in ‘50s, for suspected communists. Just as troubling today, as Trump admin assembles registries of Jewish intelligentsia & people with developmental disabilities.
wapo.st/3YO5amY
wapo.st/3YO5amY
Opinion | No, thank you. I don’t want to appear on one of Trump’s ‘lists.’
The administration keeps coming up with ways to misuse federal data.
wapo.st
April 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
It’s rarely comforting to appear on a government “list”
It was alarming in the ‘40s, for Japanese-Americans. Likewise in ‘50s, for suspected communists. Just as troubling today, as Trump admin assembles registries of Jewish intelligentsia & people with developmental disabilities.
wapo.st/3YO5amY
wapo.st/3YO5amY
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The trope that universities are "dependent" on the federal government fundamentally misunderstands how vital this partnership has been for the US. The private sector can't replace it. If we kill it, we're all worse off. From @donmoyn.bsky.social and me: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...
April 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The trope that universities are "dependent" on the federal government fundamentally misunderstands how vital this partnership has been for the US. The private sector can't replace it. If we kill it, we're all worse off. From @donmoyn.bsky.social and me: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...
Federally funded research is not a subsidy. Universities LOSE money conducting research. Research is a partnership between the federal government, institutions, and for public institutions their state governments to advance the public interest. It is competitively allocated & rigorously overseen.
New, from @pamherd.bsky.social & I:
An emerging conventional wisdom is that universities should abandon federal dollars since it gives Trump a means to strong-arm them.
But breaking the federal-university research partnership would have high societal costs. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...
An emerging conventional wisdom is that universities should abandon federal dollars since it gives Trump a means to strong-arm them.
But breaking the federal-university research partnership would have high societal costs. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...
Are universities too dependent on federal support?
Destroying a decades-long scientific partnership will hurt more than higher ed
donmoynihan.substack.com
April 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Federally funded research is not a subsidy. Universities LOSE money conducting research. Research is a partnership between the federal government, institutions, and for public institutions their state governments to advance the public interest. It is competitively allocated & rigorously overseen.
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Right-wingers really really want you to forget this distinction. They want you to join them in separating the good people (who deserve rights) from the bad people (who don't).
They are incapable of imagining moral universalism. They regret the Enlightenment.
They are this country's worst people.
They are incapable of imagining moral universalism. They regret the Enlightenment.
They are this country's worst people.
Van Hollen on Fox News Sunday: "I'm not vouching for the man. I'm vouching for the man's rights. His constitutional rights to due process."
April 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Right-wingers really really want you to forget this distinction. They want you to join them in separating the good people (who deserve rights) from the bad people (who don't).
They are incapable of imagining moral universalism. They regret the Enlightenment.
They are this country's worst people.
They are incapable of imagining moral universalism. They regret the Enlightenment.
They are this country's worst people.
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Set aside the headline, this is a good primer on the how the federal govt wanted higher Ed to take on a bigger research role, and funded the infrastructure to make that possible via merit-based peer reviewed processes. The research funding is not entitlements and cutting it comes w real costs
April 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Set aside the headline, this is a good primer on the how the federal govt wanted higher Ed to take on a bigger research role, and funded the infrastructure to make that possible via merit-based peer reviewed processes. The research funding is not entitlements and cutting it comes w real costs
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this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness
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I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe."
But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.
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But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.
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April 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe."
But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.
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But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.
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I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners
Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners
open.substack.com
April 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
