brett.bessen

🚨 Restoring institutional confidence in backsliding democracies: Evidence from Mexico 🇲🇽 🚨 Presidential attacks can decrease public trust in democratic institutions. What—if anything—can be done about it? Our new article in PNAS shows that presidential attacks erode trust in democracy’s referees. But credible rebuttals help restore it — even among presidential supporters. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… @andresdu @PNASNews @AMonsivaisC @EdnaJaime @CSocialesTec @INEMexico @rcastrocornejo @Reforma @BrendanNyhan

Can you reduce all of political philosophy to one diagram? A pretty good attempt. (From a book on Machiavelli by Gabriele Pedulla.)

Nice read and great for a causal inference syllabus

[Submitted on 26 Nov 2025 (v1), last revised 10 Feb 2026 (this version, v2)] Causal Inference: A Tale of Three Frameworks Linbo Wang, Thomas Richardson, James Robins arxiv.org/abs/2511.21516

No se pierdan la presentación de este libro que coordine junto con mi colega @gpe_salmoran Reformar para dominar: la disputa por la democracia electoral en México

@JohnHolbein1 It seems like the annual APSA announcements are being picked up as pubs…

Grad student: "I want to have the most APSR's of all time!" Ahem; Frederic Austin Ogg and his 169 APSRs would like a word.

Breaking news: Canvas hackers gave up the site after receiving million student requests to raise their grades.

Which political science programs punch above and below their weight? Any surprising results here?

CU Boulder has a long right tail 🦬. @cuboulderpsci

@luisjdominguezp @SniInvestigador No he probado el GPT. Puede que sea similar. Construí esto basándome en mi propio proceso usando Claude Code.

@BessenBrett @SniInvestigador Había un ChatGPT que rolaron por ahí. ¿Lo probaste? ¿Cómo se compara?

¿Aplicando al SNII a última hora? Creé una skill para Claude Code que pide tu CV, analiza tus requisitos por nivel y área, y te ayuda a organizar tus constancias y evidencias. Instálala aquí 👇 github.com/brettbessen/cl…

Ya probaron esta herramienta? #snii2026

A fascinating internship!

Videoanálisis | Elecciones 2027: La trampa de la saturación | EL PAÍS youtube.com/shorts/bW4Vl9G… a través de @YouTube

I hope the Canvas hackers release my “Please remember to do the following readings” messages. Finally my students will see them.

El problema de acceso a la justicia y la impunidad está en el MP o FGR: The gatekeeper of the justice system. Les comparto este texto que escribí sobre las reformas que la clase política introdujó en algunos países en #LATAM pero no en México y que explica en gran medida la impunidad política absoluta que vemos. revistas.juridicas.unam.mx/index.php/mexi…

@ASPertierra Its one response but not anywhere near a solution. Blue books are essentially spew receptacles to capture short term content mastery. They do not allow students to sit with ideas, iteratively write and reflect, and in the process learn how to think on a sophisticated level.