This opinion is worth reading. Here's the portion of Judge Young's decision that concerns masked ICE officers. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Thanks to Robert Redford, not only for his movies and promotion of the arts, including the Sundance Institute, but also for providing a place just minutes from Provo to experience the extraordinary natural beauty of this area.

Seen on my recent visit to Prague

Contestation is central to democratic governance because losers' consent is a key test for democratic stability. We show across multiple election years, methods, and different electoral winners that support for contestation is malleable and varies across contestation dimensions.

Lastly, we even demonstrate this dynamic in the 2022 midterm elections using CES panel data, showing that cumulative wins across multiple races at the state and federal levels lead to less support for contestation behaviors.

In 2024, we also find this dynamic using repeated cross-section data from the 2024 Western States Survey, where respondents were randomly assigned to take the survey before or after the election.

Since then, we have replicated this finding for other elections using a variety of methods. In the 2024 election, we demonstrate this same winner/loser effect at the individual-level panel data from a national sample -- the 2024 CES.

In 2020, we found that respondents to our Western States Survey shifted support for contestation behaviors based on whether they were interviewed in the days before the election or the days after. This analysis was possible due to a fortuitous interrupted time series.

Hey, look what arrived today! I'm so pleased to have a copy of the Handbook of Innovations in Political Psychology in my hands. It was an immense pleasure to work with co-editors Cara Wong and @ethanbusby.bsky.social ... and an amazing team of scholars who authored the chapters!

This work has been a decade in the making, so it's wonderful to finally see it appear. Teasing out the difference between typically correlated characteristics like sex and gender is not easy, and we have learned a great deal through this study.