Tristan M. Hightower

Well, this is exciting forthcoming news from @TonyMadonna5 and Michael Lynch! Sept 2025. Hopefully Tony will give us the big cover reveal soon! press.umich.edu/Books/B/Broken…

Voters reward politicians who sponsor bills they agree with that have no chance of passage: preprints.apsanet.org/engage/api-gat…

For those interested, David Mayhew has compiled the next update to his significant laws dataset, covering the 118th Congress of 2023-2024. works.bepress.com/david-mayhew/4…

A forthcoming paper in @The_JOP by Charles Hunt of @BoiseState and Kristina Miler of @UMDGVPT examines how lawmakers advertise their legislative effectiveness to constituents: thelawmakers.org/legislative-re…

@DCInbox I hope you win by a landslide!

Off to go win a scariest costume contest

Do you want to see how much the margin in a pre-election poll can vary based on "reasonable" decisions by a pollster? Check this out: disq.us/t/4rd8rfy

#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal - Civic Organizations and the Political Participation of Cross-Pressured Americans: The Case of the Labor Movement - cup.org/4gKHIyb - @awh #FirstView

Excited that my paper, "Descriptive Representation in an Era of Polarization," is forthcoming at the Journal of Politics! This project started as a very rough draft in my first semester of grad school, and after many rewrites, it's finally out! journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

Excited to share new work w/ @colinrcase We produce issue-specific estimates for the left-right policy positions of congressional candidates Parts of this project are now under contract w/ CUP's Elements in Quant Methods 🥳 --- feedback welcome!! osf.io/preprints/osf/…

FOR THE WONKS: Like her predecessors, VP Kamala Harris will need to run up the score in the popular vote to defeat Donald Trump in the Electoral College? But by how much? Read my piece for @nationaljournal (and it's free!) nationaljournal.com/s/726162/how-m…

@mellissameisels @JustinGrimmer Considering changing my class intro to this instead of “assistant professor of political science.”

@JustinGrimmer Gotta figure out where “boring academic who can't model for shit” goes on the CV!

I wonder what part of the argument you agree or disagree with? Our arguments about calibration are directly applicable to your "bet" standard. Regardless of who won that bet we still wouldn't know who was a better forecaster, which is our point!

“Coalitional lobbying may be even more effective when addressing entrenched policy issues requiring more technical expertise or when directed at agencies experiencing stopgap budgeting.” Read FULL article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ps… #PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal

BSOS Terps, we’re celebrating you today! We are so proud of our newest #UMD alumni! Photo by Associate Dean Katherine Russell.

Congratulations to @GVPTUMD Professor @SarahCroco, who was recently inducted into @PhiKappaPhi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines! Learn more at hglo.umd.edu/aboutus/news

Excited to represent @GVPTUMD and @bsosumd at @MPSAnet. Many thanks for the kind words @ateas and to the panelists, discussants, chairs, and attendees for indulging my cranberry fascination!

@ajreeves Do you have one of these in your office too?

@NicholasNapolio @MPSAnet @Levin_Center @NicholasNapolio I’m new to the conference-within-a-conference thing. Do I need to register for this (if slots are available?) or just show up? This looks amazing! Kudos to you and other organizers/presenters/sponsors!

Here's an updated program for my conferece-within-a-conference on the separation of powers at this year's @MPSAnet conference (sponsored by the @Levin_Center). It will take place on Friday April 5 and bring together over 25 excellent scholars of American political institutions.

🍼Growth in abortion-rights organizations encourages anti-abortion group formation. Anti-abortion actors follow a counter-mobilization logic--they are not first movers. ▶️@thighto1 and the Energy-Stability-Area (ESA) model in 👉 cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView #OpenAccess