2024 US Elections

2024 Post-Election Reflection Series: Reflecting on Predictions: Why Do We Often Get Elections Wrong?

Prior to the 2024 US Presidential Election, APSA’s Diversity and Inclusion Programs Department issued a call for submissions, entitled 2024 APSA Post-Election Reflections, for a PSNow blog series of political science scholars who reflect on […]

American Political Science Review

Who Gets Hired? Political Patronage and Bureaucratic Favoritism

A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico By Mai Hassan, MIT, Horacio Larreguy, ITAM and Stuart Russell, World Bank Most research on biased public sector hiring highlights local […]

American Political Science Review

Toxic Speech and Limited Demand for Content Moderation on Social Media

Toxic Speech and Limited Demand for Content Moderation on Social Media By Franziska Pradel, Technical University of Munich; Jan Zilinsky, Technical University of Munich; Spyros Kosmidis, University of Oxford; Yannis Theocharis, Technical University of Munich. When […]

American Political Science Review

Fair Trade: Racial Preferences for Trade Policies

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Sienna Nordquist, covers the new article by Daniel Lobo […]

American Political Science Review

Social Media, Social Control, and the Politics of Public Shaming

Social Media, Social Control, and the Politics of Public Shaming By Jennifer Forestal, Loyola University Chicago. While there is disagreement over the value of public shaming, scholars largely agree that social media introduce pathologies. But while […]

2024 US Elections

2024 Post-Election Reflection Series: Vote Equations

Prior to the 2024 US Presidential Election, APSA’s Diversity and Inclusion Programs Department issued a call for submissions, entitled 2024 APSA Post-Election Reflections, for a PSNow blog series of political science scholars who reflect on […]