
Quin Monson
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Quin Monson
@QuinMonson
Political Scientist @BYUPoliticalSci & @BYU_CSED, Director @BYU_civicengage, Partner @Y2Analytics. Public opinion, elections, religion & politics (esp. LDS)




Logical.



Ryan Smith says the team will have "Utah" and not "Salt Lake" in the name. The franchise will start playing next season without a team name. “So, we’ll start with ‘Utah’ on the jersey, and we’ll figure out the logo and everything else and what it is that we are."





General election polls at this stage in the race only mean so much. To help fill in the gaps, we propose an alternative view with a first-of-its-kind study about Pivot Voters.



Last November, when Great Salt Lake reached her lowest point on record, the artist Fazal Sheikh and the writer Terry Tempest Williams set out to see what might be revealed. The dry lake bed, now exposed to the wind, is laden with toxic elements. nyti.ms/3lHt6YR


Ray Block, a respected academic in the field of political science and African American studies, will join RAND as our inaugural Michael D. Rich Chair for Countering Truth Decay. bit.ly/3kkjRxa


We're absolutely delighted to share that "Crediting Invisible Work: Congress & the Lawmaking Productivity Metric (LawProM)" has won the Pi Sigma Alpha Award for best paper presented at SPSA and co-won the Marian Irish Award for best paper on women and politics presented at SPSA!

Celebrating Reformation Sunday at the Kirkin‘ o’ th’ Tartan service with our friends at the First Presbyterian Church. Highland Cathedral gets me every time.







