Kevin Banda

New at @PSJ_Editor with John Cluverius and Justin Kirkland: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ps… We test partisan and procedural concerns against one another and find that both drive support for and perceived legitimacy of unconstitutional legislation.

🚨 New paper alert with @markovitis in AJPS! 1/ Will voters participate in the primary of a party they oppose to prevent the nomination of a candidate they fear? We study crossover voting using surveys and a large field experiment (N=83,902) in the 2024 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

Revel in my failures, both academic and now for the first time nonacademic, by viewing my newly updated shadow CV: drive.google.com/file/d/0B2eHDK…

@JohnHolbein1 No finding is surprising once you've read the paper!

Before saying “duh”/“that’s not surprising” to a study, remember science is not meant to surprise you. It’s shocking how many (supposedly) very sophisticated people don’t seem to realize this!

One could certainly interpret this as being a side effect of election denial messaging. See also my work with Moriah Harman on confidence in elections being lower among Republicans in states Trump claimed were stolen in 2020 vs other states.

Confidence that other people's votes will be counted properly doesn't affect turnout, suggesting that this process is driven by concerns about one's own vote rather than those of others.

I'll be at #SPSA this week. Let me know if you want to meet to chat about research, States United, working in the political nonprofit/tech/higher ed space, or anything else.

This is some goofy shit, what the fuck

genuinely still impressed by the ludonarrative of Papers Please and how astutely it makes its point about participating in bureaucratic violence. "i play defensively, doing nothing illegal unless i have to, but i keep getting bad endings. how am i supposed to play?"

Not sure if it's good or bad, but the rate of desk rejections sure seems to be getting high.

@huzzahmpls Oof, hadn't heard of this one

Donald the dove is back, baby

Looking forward to learning about cool new research and meeting with people at ESRA this week.

Meta's gone all in on trying to convince me to get either an MPA or an MBA from UAlbany.

Getting R&Rs? Still good and cool.

@JakeMGrumbach I was recently accused of being white, too, which was a new one for me.

glad this kinda posting is still surviving on twitter

Lots of takes floating around out there about how young men have gone hard to the right in ways that differ from everyone else, but I'm not seeing that in the 2024 CES data. Gen Z men look a lot like Millennial men on partisanship, ideological identity, and vote choice.

I'll be at MPSA this week. I'm happy to meet with anyone to chat about research, the job market, professionalization stuff, or whatever in and outside of academia.

The best study I know estimates that each dollar of NIH spending generates $1.40-$2.80 in value counting *only the private return from drugs*, ignoring consumer surplus, med devices, public health, behavioral science, etc...