Ash Splawinski
splawinski.bsky.social
Ash Splawinski
@splawinski.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Political science @ UofT | Visiting Scholar @ CU Denver. Researching policy design, administrative burdens, and political mobilization.
Overthinks for work, underthinks for fun.
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People are holding administrative burden parties to collectively take on tasks
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Essay | How to Turn the Bureaucratic Grind of Life Into a Party
We all feel it: the growing stream of administrative tasks sapping our time, spirits and social lives. Admin Night represents a tiny, nerdy resistance.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Oh hey, it’s me! 🤓
A new interesting article by @splawinski.bsky.social is now available on our FirstView page. It is entitled "The impact of inter-actor competition on administrative burdens: theorizing “consequent populations” using the illustrative case of gamete donation governance": tinyurl.com/yhdyu9zx
November 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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This is such a great piece. It's not directly about the current SCOTUS's extreme unitary executive jurisprudence, but it shows how that body of cases -- though justified in the name of democracy -- is in fact anti-democratic. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
The Law of Constitutional Capture
Constitutional capture is commonplace in the world today. A government that was built to be for the common good, the public interest, is rebuilt from the inside to become a government for the interest...
www.degruyterbrill.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Melatonin: 0
Baseball: 1
October 28, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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I apologized to my neighbour in advance because, as soon as it began, I knew I’d be yelling at my tv. Go #BlueJays!
At the point in the Jays game where I’m just letting the kids swear when they’re excited with no consequences. Because that was an EXPLETIVE DELETED inning.
October 25, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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50% of American adults are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life. Just 10% are more excited than concerned.
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October 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Oh my GOSH, I’m behind the times. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
October 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I know people do discourse analysis, content analysis, word embedding, etc but does anyone study the use of emojis in politics? …I gotta look this up.
#BREAKING: Pete Hegseth sends goodbye emoji to news outlets protesting press policy
thehill.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
4. Diverge - deepen the political divide and intensify polarization
New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
Purge, Merge, and Surge
Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state
donmoynihan.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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My book is now available for pre-order with Cambridge University Press (cup.org/4nfM2IM). Here, I reflected on America's acceleration of reliance on Medicare Advantage and the new traditional Medicare prior auth administrered with AI, through the lens of my findings
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The American Exceptionalism of Health Insurance Barriers
My forthcoming book Coverage Denied just became available for pre-order, and proofing and now promoting this work has given me an opportunity to reflect on contemporary health policy developments thro...
open.substack.com
September 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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assistant professor, associate professor, grad student
October 7, 2025 at 1:35 AM
My first post probably should have been more generic. Hello world, etc.
October 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Somewhere in the distance the Advocacy Coalition Framework people are crying.
FBI now renamed ACF (Ass Clown Factory)
As soon as I read the words “ass clown factory” I had to double check it was the real FBI director’s account and not some parody.

It’s real.
October 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM