Charles Nathan

@BillAckman my coauthors and I studied how locals feel about their representatives hauling in loads of out-of-district campaign cash. What did we find? The stronger people’s attachment to their home, the less represented and more neglected they felt upon discovering how much out-of-district money their representatives raked in. And this happens in races all across the country. Here’s the article: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

We don’t allow foreigners to fund elections in America. Why should we allow Californians to fund elections in NY when they don’t have to live with the consequences?

Our latest paper “The Donor Went Down to Georgia: Out-of-District Donations and Rivalrous Representation” is online @PolBehavior @UTDEPPS @arvindkrishnam @CharlesENathan link.springer.com/article/10.100…

My latest paper “Beyond partisan filters: Can underreported news reduce issue polarization?” is now online @PLOSONE @UTDEPPS journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

@DukePoliSci Congratulations to Professor Bram!

🎉 Help us congratulate Curtis!

My latest paper “The Most Important Election of Our Lifetime: Focalism and Political Participation” is now online @Journal_PoPs @DukePoliSci onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Contemplating the urban/rural cleavage? In the #APSRNewIssue, @CharlesENathan argues it played a crucial role in the Athenian demos. #OpenAccess #PoliSciResearch @DukeU ow.ly/b5hg50LH2IQ

If seated, a Cherokee delegate could make a big difference in Congress wapo.st/3ygLfjn

“This Unfortunate Development”: Incarceration and Democracy in W. E. B. Du Bois - Elliot Mamet, 2022 journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…

@OregonBlueDog My friend @curtisgbram and @mungowitz have a paper on this very topic! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Texas history buffs, any idea why some of these counties voted against secession?

"Constant should be understood to have believed in the transcendent status of liberal rights, meaning they are fixed and normatively compelling in all historical contexts," writes @CharlesENathan in a new article History of Political Thought. ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/hp… @DukePoliSci

@matthenryyoung @DukeU @KenanEthics Congrats!!!!!!

I am excited to announce that I have accepted a position as a Postdoctoral Fellow in @DukeU's @KenanEthics, beginning Fall 2022. I'll be working in the Civil Discourse Project, an innovative program fostering serious conversations about perennially pressing human questions. 1/2

Very excited to share that my article "The Urban/Rural Divide in Athenian Political Thought" has been published in @apsrjournal. You can check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/S00030…