Isaac Pollert

Congratulations to Muhammed Cifci. He has been offered and accepted a data science job at Ntrepid, a firm that contracts with government agencies operating in the national security realm. He will be starting in this position next semester.

New article now live at @SPPQJournal! Executive ideology is understudied relative to legislative, bc execs only "vote" on a small subset of bills. But @Adam_Bonica's CFscores allow us compare them to other actors in a new way. My focus: US governors. 1/5 cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Successful symbolic policy has the opposite effect, being more readily adopted by states seeking similar outcomes. Issue framing here is critical, as even the “quintessential” morality policy of abortion can be “de-moralized” when the goal is substantive (closed clinics).

Using both substantive and symbolic policy examples, we reinforce that success can drive learning, but also that “success” itself is a value-laden term. Substantive TRAP laws successfully lower the number of abortion providers but hinder future adoptions.

Some new work dropping! Here, Chris and I investigate state policy learning using abortion policies from 1993-2016. We build on the diffusion literature related to how states learn from one another, and under what circumstances this occurs. bit.ly/3DTcd3Y

Congratulations to this year's -C-SoDA postdoctoral fellow, Isaac Pollert. The article he co-authored was recently published in Cambridge University Press. cambridge.org/core/journals/… @IPollert

@mjnelson7 @psupolisci Get a reference management software and throw all your coursework readings in it to start the habit.

Tomorrow is first-year student orientation at @psupolisci. What’s the best advice to give to incoming graduate students?

@ejfagan Many thanks! Happy with how things have turned out and very grateful for all of the help I’ve received along the way.

🎉🎉Let's congratulate UIC's newest PhD, Dr @IPollert!!! Isaac is heading off to a Post Doc at Penn State to continue his research on state politics, policy diffusion and elections administration. His dissertation examines how states emulate similar states' elections policy.

Friends! Colleagues! Come to @JawsPoliSci tomorrow at 2pm and see what I've been working on. Not going to lie, I think it's exciting stuff. Spoilers below. Still, I am a meek and fledgling grad student and I need all the help I can get!!! Sign up link: etsu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

@ProfHansNoel @MPSAnet We use 4 experiments to test the I/E model in whites’ support for education spending. Results show that I&E race cues depress white support for ed funding. Yet, we find no I or E priming. Ideas about when I/E model fails. With @AndreaAManning @afilindra (Thurs 8am, Burnham 1)

If you're a grad student or untenured faculty presenting at #MPSA22 is this week, respond to this with your presentation info, paper summary, key figure or argument, etc., and I'll retweet. #MPSA2022. @MPSAnet

@Mbenton158 and I recently published a short piece in APSA Educator @APSA_EduSection titled "Using Online Anonymous Participation Technology to Encourage Undergraduate Course Engagement" Check it out here: connect.apsanet.org/documents/wint… @MizzouTSGPA

Hey @uicpols students! What better way to start the semester @thisisUIC than listening to me and @ejfagan speak about voting rights? anchor.fm/pols-clsrm/epi…

Important policy diffusion work!

What is a "true" American, and what are their values? We ask Americans in a new national survey. What we find elucidates how partisanship impacts 1st and 2nd Amendment values and more. (Full report embedded within the article) today.uic.edu/survey-measure…

@EdwinSantanaVA @OpenAcademics Though I can’t remember if that has it all by district. It’s what pops into my head first for VEP though.

@EdwinSantanaVA @OpenAcademics I think this might be useful for you electproject.org IIRC it has VEP at least back to 2000

Political scientists I need your help! I’m looking for a data set that has the turnout percentages for or VEP by congressional district for the 2000, 2002, 2010, and 2012 elections. Can anyone help me out? #phdchat @OpenAcademics

Join us for the final event of @APSA_SPP's spring speaker series - next Friday, May 7, 3:30-5 p.m. EST on Zoom. Papers: @carolinecrlsn on activism in the #MeToo era @KellenAKane & @rebeccakreitzer on interest group model legislation Discussants: @JaciKettler & @ehansenluc

I want to put together a list of MA programs in psych that provide strong stats and methods prep, but don't prey on students (i.e., charge crazy high tuition), and ideally ones that provide some financial support (e.g., TA or RA opportunities, or fellowships). Recommendations?

@hoosieraaron google.com/books/edition/… Whole chapter of this book is on this, from Bush 1’s POV. Interesting read.