Matthew Fails
768 posts
Matthew Fails
@matthew_fails
Political science professor at Oakland University. Mostly international development, oil and politics, dictatorships, and cycling
Royal Oak, MI Katılım Mayıs 2017
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@AdamGeorg3 @UofMNLawSchool Great to see you (both!) and congratulations. Proud of you!
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Interested in more? Paper is posted here dropbox.com/scl/fi/iez28jg…
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One finding is that when economic performance is strong, evasion attempts (and especially public facing methods like referenda) are more likely. So if the domestic economy goes south, at least the most obvious methods become less likely (silver linings and all that)
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And an @oaklandu undergraduate and I just had a paper accepted where we build on this data and code additional methods of evasion, and show that economic performance drives evasion attempts
Anne Meng@annemeng_
In light of Trump making the 3rd term comments, I thought it would be interesting to revisit the broader data on term limit evasion attempts. In 2020, Mila Versteeg (UVA Law) and I worked with law students to collect data on strategies incumbents use to circumvent term limits /1
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Good day to share this little paper I wrote as a grad student
Colonialism, Property Rights and the Modern World Income Distribution | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3BIa0JL
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@_alice_evans paging Eugene Weber...and @cblatts who seems to have a soft spot for making peasants into frenchmen
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19th century national building in France was top down and coercive.
All students had to speak French
François Valentin@Valen10Francois
In 1789 only 25% of French people spoke French, by the end of the first world war it was the overwhelming majority. That was the French Republic, not the internet.
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@Christinapearlw @j_a_tucker Obviously I'm not on here much these days (probably for the better), but I use this: sites.google.com/oakland.edu/po…
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@j_a_tucker @matthew_fails I feel like you sent something similar to us for the OU symposium??
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I'm trying something new for an undergraduate class: a poster session for students to present projects. Can anyone point me to a good set of instructions from creating a good poster? Including the logistics -- like what size it should be, how to print it out, etc. Thanks!!
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@daniel_mcdowell The first CD I ever purchased and still makes frequent appearances on those end of year Spotify personalized lists. Just taught my 12yr old the opening riff to Holiday last week!
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@AmandaMurdie @UGA_INTL @UGA_SPIA @DiplomacyLab We have two Diplomacy Lab projects on tap for fall @oaklandu. They are our first so we might need to pick your brain for some tips!
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This morning, my @UGA_INTL @UGA_SPIA Data Analytics course presented to the State Department as part of the @DiplomacyLab. They conducted a 1,000-person survey experiment and analyzed the data. I'm so proud of them!
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My thanks to @lawfare, @qjurecic, and the other student contributors for the opportunity to write on Michigan and Wisconsin's responses re fake electors in the 2020 election.
Lawfare@lawfare
Hunter Evans, @AdamGeorg3, @qjurecic, and Emma Plankey provide an overview of the ongoing investigations and prosecutions across the country against fake electors involved with the attempt to flip the Electoral College vote to Trump in the 2020 election. lawfaremedia.org/article/how-st…
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Gohlke with the wired earbuds, because of course
Oakland Men's Basketball@OaklandMBB
Here we come!!
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Some professional news: as of today I’ve been officially sanctioned by the Russian government and banned from the country. It’s a badge of honor that I will wear with the greatest pride. Слава Україні! mid.ru/ru/foreign_pol…
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Matthew Fails retweetledi
5 @oaklandu students and Professor @DaveDulio talked about #voting on @CBS Saturday Morning today! Thank you @MacFarlaneNews and Charlie Brooks for a wonderful piece on the impact of young Michigan voters. cbsnews.com/video/meet-the… @JhelysseAnthony @PaytonBucki @GoldenGrizzlies
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Textbook bootlegging has always existed, but I've noticed a big uptick recently. Access seems both very broad and very easy. Students are considerably more open about it.
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@jkyleindc @MichaelRoss7 @paashamahdavi @IFPRI @IFPRI_Nigeria @JeffDColgan @D_E_Resnick @IISD_Energy Good piece, thanks for sharing. The idea that popular but inefficient policies are hard to break does seem to hinge on the policy working and thus being popular!
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May be of interest to @MichaelRoss7 @paashamahdavi @IFPRI @IFPRI_Nigeria @JeffDColgan @matthew_fails @D_E_Resnick @IISD_Energy
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Excited to share a new piece w Kwaw Andam @IFPRI @IFPRI_Nigeria on Nigeria's recent fuel subsidy reform. Where similar reforms in Nigeria's past and in other countries have been met by protests, this one seems to be different (so far) (1/4)
Project Syndicate@ProSyn
Nigeria has attempted to end its fuel subsidy before, but this time seems to be different. @IFPRI’s @jkyleindc and @IFPRI_Nigeria's Kwaw Andam explain why – and what it could mean for policymakers elsewhere. bit.ly/3Qe3HCP
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My only contribution to the hand wringing about elite institution folks frequently contributing to the toxic anonymous field rumor sites is to simply ask, “have you seriously never met anyone from elite institutions?”
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@daniel_mcdowell passing down the short-sleeve-over-long-sleeve T look to my children is one of my proudest parental accomplishments yet
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*calmly pulls a box of old clothes out from under the bed, blows off dust*
gq.com/story/you-shou…
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@NateMJensen Nate, the 90s vibes are back, have you not looked around at your campus recently???
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