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Spring 2026 @PIPECollab events!

Yesterday, @mmildenberger gave a great @PIPECollab workshop on climate politics and policy bundling. And @ArgotetironiP provided some great comments.

Coming soon: @JPIPE_journal 7(1).

I made the timeline chart below. We all know that the 1888-1910 period was very anti-democracy in the US South (with lots of disenfranchising constitutional/statutory changes). But the next quarter century was VERY pro-democracy. Not a single disenfranchising provision.

.@vkoganpolisci was @USCPrice to give two @PIPECollab talks last week — on the electoral power of teachers and on his book, No Adult Left Behind. Terrific visit! And thanks to @mattunrath for providing comments on Vlad’s paper.

@SeanGailmard Is there a Gailmard formal model brewing on this?

True at national level but not sub-national. Failed governance can -help- progressives at state/local level, because it drives voters who aren't ideologically aligned out of their jurisdiction. Easier to win in ideologically homogenous electorate that will tolerate poor governance as long as you are anti-fascist. But that creates a pipeline of candidates who haven't done anything, which is a problem nationally.

@Eleanor_Mueller Ha

Trump says that if he nominated Ted Cruz to the Supreme Court, he would "get 100% of the vote." "The Democrats will vote for him because they want to get him the hell out. And the Republicans will vote for him because they want to get him the hell out, too."

Great @PIPECollab Workshop earlier this week by @gonzalezrostani on the PE of automation with evidence from Mexico. And terrific comments from @JaneEsberg who is in LA for a few months!

If you *only* used SAT to admit to elite colleges, share of admits from top 1% income falls 15.8% → 9.9% and representation from <$200k rises by +8.8%, with no reduction in post-college outcomes. It's 'holistic review' and 'ban SAT' policy that allows the most wealthy and powerful to virtue signal while getting an edge.

New paper with Justin Peck: The Collapse of the Civil Rights Coalition: Congress and the Politics of Antibusing Legislation, 1966–86 | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4atzwSt

Spring 2026 @PIPECollab events!

I'm hiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow! Something that should be obvious after this past year: The American presidency and the executive branch, more broadly, are far and away the most important political institutions in American politics.

Now out: @JHPE_journal 5(3-4): special double issue on the Historical Political Economy of Water. nowpublishers.com/HPE

Capping off the @PIPECollab conference on the Political Economy of Insurance — the indomitable Bruce Cain.

Great day of @PIPECollab conferencing yesterday, with excellent papers by @JakeJares, @prhjohnston, Debora Villalvazo, and Douglas X. Leonard. Lots of learning at the Political Economy of Insurance Conference.

Coming in December: @JHPE_journal 5(3-4). Special double issue on The HPE of Water.

Great @PIPECollab talk today on economic inequality and misperceptions in Lebanon by @salma_mousa_

RFP: HPE and the United States. (Deadline TODAY, Nov 24). Papers for a special issue of @JHPE_journal, with a conference @USCPrice in early May. Details below.

Request for proposals: HPE and the United States. Papers for a special issue of @JHPE_journal, with a conference @USCPrice in early May. Deadline: November 24. Details below.

Highly recommend @KelseyTuoc's piece on the UCSD remedial math scandal She focuses on the fact that most of these students were getting good grades in math in high school. This is large-scale educational fraud and the kids are the ones paying for it. theargumentmag.com/p/when-grades-…