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How should scholars who study American politics change what they do in light of the Trump administration?
The emerging consense is: write about Trump, go normative, and raise "alarm bells."
TLDR: This is a bad idea.
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Kenneth Lowande
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Kenneth Lowande
@ProfLowande
Associate Professor @UMich || scholar of American political institutions || author of False Front: https://t.co/lKIO6obmAE
Ann Arbor, MI Katılım Temmuz 2025
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@JohnHolbein1 it sounds trite but this critique often means "I don't think your results mean what you say they do" -- which is actually an important thing to have right before putting this stuff out into the world
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Better or worse than “I don’t like your paper’s framing”?
Paata Ivanisvili@PI010101
New referee standard: ‘We reject the paper because the result is now routine with the help of LLMs’ 😄
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Very important and timely reminder for everyone in the media; Trump isn't an aberration, here. All contemporary presidents caught on to the fact that the media tends to parrot policy announcements in a way that makes the political shop in the WH very happy.
Gabe Fleisher@WakeUp2Politics
NEW: It’s a familiar pattern: Trump announces a new policy on Truth Social. News alerts are sent out. Lawmakers issue statements. Furor ensues. And then ... nothing. In today’s newsletter, I investigate: how often do Trump policies announced on social media actually happen?
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@WakeUp2Politics Very interesting work, but nothing new, at least for recent presidents:
amazon.com/False-Front-Pr…
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NEW: It’s a familiar pattern: Trump announces a new policy on Truth Social. News alerts are sent out. Lawmakers issue statements. Furor ensues.
And then ... nothing.
In today’s newsletter, I investigate: how often do Trump policies announced on social media actually happen?
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@Spencer_Goidel cool. curious how are you acct for the dramatic variation in N from cycle to cycle? my guess is the differences in these lines would be swamped by error bars
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Did the academy move left? Maybe, maybe not. Either way, leftists within the academy clearly became more politically active over the past 25 years, and that could be driving those perceptions.
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Weighing in on the "has the academy moved left" debates. Here's some stuff from a project I'm working on with @JordanCarrP. We built university-level ideology estimates from campaign contribution data for SEC (working on other conferences now) faculty donors from 2002-2024.
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@Nolan_Mc what if i bought all the data for the paper on a credit card
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@dbroockman It takes annoying, tedious things that sometimes tooks hours and were not fun, and does them in seconds. Whenever I read doom-takes about AI, I circle back to this.
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If you're not exchanging daily messages with your coauthors expressing gratitude for how amazing Claude/Codex/Gemini is, you're either a) missing out on the biggest productivity revolution ever or b) not grateful enough for it.
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I used Claude Code to build an website that implements the simulations presented in "Making in the Supreme Court: The Politics of Appointments, 1930-2020" (with Chuck Cameron) that predict the composition of the Supreme Court under different scenarios.
jkastellec.github.io/msc-simulator/
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This is a really hard position to take in the academy. It is also correct. It's impossible not to be alarmed by Trump--but alarm shouldn't drive scholarship. We need a firewall between our personal views and our academic writing.
Kenneth Lowande@ProfLowande
How should scholars who study American politics change what they do in light of the Trump administration? The emerging consense is: write about Trump, go normative, and raise "alarm bells." TLDR: This is a bad idea.
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In a new review, I write about the costs of this kind of scholarship, and how scholars should "respond" to the moment: myumi.ch/w9R2W
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How should scholars who study American politics change what they do in light of the Trump administration?
The emerging consense is: write about Trump, go normative, and raise "alarm bells."
TLDR: This is a bad idea.
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@joshmccrain it means the contestants can't see each other but each has to decide who to propose marriage to anyway
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when you read the phrase "quasi-experimental" what does it mean to you?
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@seanjwestwood the discussion is so contentious because the stakes are so low
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@ProfLowande The irony is that I don’t think there will be doom. I just think we need to reconsider the format for academic papers. So, yeah, basically Stalin here.
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Faculty raging against AI: are you just openly abdicating your responsibility to prepare students for what's coming? AI is the future. Your anger doesn't change that. It just means your students learn it from someone else--or don't learn it at all. Enrollments will respond.
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@seanjwestwood I am, indeed, very mad; been stewing for days, but hope this apology helps me heal
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People are mad I said AI can write literature reviews. Fine, but literature reviews are broken. Why does elegant prose or the ability to regurgitate past work override if a finding actually matters? Today storytelling launders bad research and bad writing buries good research.
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The year is 2026, and I am told daily by a machine that it is "verifying that I am human."
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...we need to invest more resources into understanding what happens after the president says "go."
Applications due Feb 16. Please reach out to me with questions.
apply.interfolio.com/178829
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Many thanks to generous support from the Hewlett Foundation for seeing a desparate research need. If we are in a new era when most policy is made by American presidents from the top-down...
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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.
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