J Andres Gannon
@AndresGannon
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Assistant Professor @VandyPoliSci @VUDataScienc | PhD from @UCSDPoliSci | IR, intl security, alliances, military technology
Nashville, TN
Joined June 2015
Help! ─ 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 open to work ─ Remote/Austin → rexdouglass .com With new tools, I've been cooking: ▸ Machine-vision pipelines — RIOS Intelligent Machines ▸ Information-extraction pipelines — Microsoft ▸ Interactive SMS surveys — Pantheon Insights
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There’s so much interesting research coming from @VandyPoliSci. As dept chair, it is a pleasure to highlight a bunch of it. First, up, @trounstine and @SarahAnzia in the @apsrjournal on civil service adoption: https://t.co/75qXoCwKGy
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In doing so, I developed new measures of division of labor (from statistical ecology research on bee pollination patterns) and hierarchy (from physics research on network entropy), again convincing me pol sci can benefit A LOT from reading outside of its own discipline 2/2
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Happy to have this out (open access)! I examine the conditions under which alliances can promote a division of defense labor, offering a new theory about how strategic compatibility and hierarchy mitigate opportunism and coordination costs that often plague collective action. 1/
Complementarity in alliances: How strategic compatibility and hierarchy promote efficient cooperation in international security by J. Andrés Gannon is now available in Early View. @AndresGannon
https://t.co/9eV34WQbeB
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At BBC Verify - we've been examining CCTV footage of an Israeli airstrike hitting Gaza's European Hospital with 'bunker buster' bombs. Women and children are seen walking in the hospital courtyard moments before the strike. W/ @AndresGannon analysis https://t.co/iRtMqXEO6l
bbc.co.uk
CCTV footage obtained and verified by the BBC shows the moment before impact and the immediate aftermath. Munitions experts told BBC Verify that the strikes and destruction are consistent with the...
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🚨 Call for Proposals! 🚨 Seeking junior scholars of conflict & violence for a multi-method mini-conference: ✨ March 21-22 @ FSU ✨ $1,250 honorarium ✨ Eligibility: <3 yrs tenure track 📄 Full CfP: https://t.co/8FDQp4MPIh 📅 Apply by Jan 10: https://t.co/wKeYhYi3Fp
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Rising scholars - interested in getting published in @ForeignAffairs and receiving a $5K cash prize?!?! Check out the @perryworldhouse & FA Emerging Scholar Policy Prize below and apply! Let me know if you have any questions. cc @dankurtzphelan
Applications are open for the 2025 PWH-Foreign Affairs Emerging Scholars Policy Prize! This $5K prize encourages scholars to translate their academic work to be more accessible to policymakers. The winning essay will be published by @ForeignAffairs Apply:
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Here are the first five sets of slides: 01 Introduction: https://t.co/PIiBqLRIDB 02 Classical 2x2 setup: https://t.co/SH7w5h7MTk 03 Clustering issues: https://t.co/2v72H48HhW 04 Functional form: https://t.co/1qld58HTMI 05 Covariates:
I am thinking of making my DiD materials that I used for teaching in the last 5 years available. I am hoping these would find begineers in need of a step-by-step opinionated walkthrough of several developments Let’s see if I find the energy to do this! #EconTwitter
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New job alert: @CFR_org is searching for a Stanton Nuclear Security Senior Fellow:
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It's publication week! Influence Without Arms: The New Logic of Deterrence is now available with @CUP_PoliSci: https://t.co/pJ7eQKWBT4. The book examines the role of nuclear technology in international relations.
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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:
goodauthority.org
Likely voters, past voters, demographics and more – how pollsters weight 2024 election poll data matters a great deal.
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As a former participant, strongly recommend this program. Excellent feedback and discussion in workshopping projects with like-minded folks
IGA’s 2025 Nonresident Fellow Program is open for applications! Writers and scholars interested in interrogating America’s foreign policy assumptions are encouraged to apply. Fellows will receive a $4,000 stipend. Apply now:
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🚨New publication! Very happy to share that my paper is now online Open Access in a @The_PEIO special issue on domestic politics and IOs: Naming and shaming in UN treaty bodies: individual petitions’ effect on human rights https://t.co/cauuwn5tuI
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The Review of International Organizations - Can individual participation in international legal institutions affect state behavior? Much of the existing literature believes that international law...
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Running a survey? Wondering if you should include a “don’t know” response option in your policy preference questions? In our new @PSRMJournal paper, @CBWlezien and me examine the consequences of the DK option for (various) estimates of public opinion https://t.co/Z8Usx1pJw9 1/n
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Estimating public opinion from surveys: the impact of including a “don't know” response option in policy preference questions - Volume 13 Issue 3
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If you're at #APSA2024, come check out the great presentations by this fantastic group of undergraduates from the ABCD REU this summer!
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How have we misunderstood the legacy of the CIA's Torture Program - and what can this tell us about the psychology of U.S. national security policy? Come find out at our #APSA2024 panel on Saturday! @APSAtweets.
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Forecasts of US presidential elections are everywhere, and they’re discussed obsessively by journalists and the public. But are they any good? @dean_c_knox, @seanjwestwood, and I show we’re decades, centuries, or (sometimes) millenia away from evidence that they are any better
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Out now open access at @AJPS_Editor. 194 potential exclusion-restriction violations for studies using weather as an instrumental variable https://t.co/xaeDQX3KCs
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