Formal Political Theory Research
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This account highlights research that uses or draws on formal theory to study political questions To promote your research, DM or [email protected]
Joined July 2019
Make sure to get your award nominations in by MARCH 1!
APSA FORMAL THEORY SECTION AWARDS See picture below for information---get your nominations in by MARCH 1st (and please self-nominate!) Email nominations directly to committee.
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Are you hiring this in political science and/or the computational social sciences? Then I have good news for you. Because @WUSTLPoliSci has 🎉 ‼️ 🔥FOUR AMAZING STUDENTS 🎉 ‼️ 🔥 on the market this year. Read on and I'll tell you more about them (in alphabetical order).
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🚨 Revised draft of "Institutional Foundations of the Power to Persuade" with @carloprato_ 🚨 Highlights: Greater focus on core implications; Broader understandings of the model and clarity on robustness (AND MORE!) As always: read it, cite it, love it! https://t.co/ws0EuEhUQz
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Now available online at Annual Review of Political Science: "Formal Theories of Special Interest Influence" with @keithschnak ( https://t.co/oBblXoS3UD) As always, read it, cite it, love it.
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The impact of money on politics—whether through campaign finance, lobbying, or independent expenditure—raises key normative questions about democratic representation and accountability. In recent...
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Applications for 2024 @EITM_Institute at @emorycollege are open. NSF funded grad workshop for all subfields of political science. Applications due on 3/824. More info and application link here: https://t.co/qKdjqRsTBm
@FormalTheory @PolMethSociety
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Make sure to get your award nominations in by MARCH 1!
APSA FORMAL THEORY SECTION AWARDS See picture below for information---get your nominations in by MARCH 1st (and please self-nominate!) Email nominations directly to committee.
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New @FormalTheory paper with @jwpatty: "Strange Bedfellows: How the Need for Good Governance Shapes Budgetary Control of Bureaucracy": https://t.co/odIdXmcCAY Not gonna write a long thread, but as always read it, cite it, love it!
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APSA FORMAL THEORY SECTION AWARDS See picture below for information---get your nominations in by MARCH 1st (and please self-nominate!) Email nominations directly to committee.
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Updated draft of my paper with @carloprato_ "Institutional Foundations of the Power to Persuade" ( https://t.co/ws0EuEhUQz) We think it's a much better version! As usual, read it, cite it, love it.. Read Carlo's original thread on the main points here: https://t.co/WIGQMuXNC9
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🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨 @keithschnak and I just posted a draft of our ARPS article "Theories of Special Interest Influence" ( https://t.co/zKg7GI45V8). In it we present the logic of exchange-based, informational, and subsidy-based models of political influence. 1/6
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Just a couple days left!
🚨🚨 AWARD SEASON🚨🚨 The Formal Theory Section of @APSAtweets gives out four awards annually. Deadline: March 1. Nominate your favorite papers here: https://t.co/4wQ5Lyj8xQ. Self nominations encouraged! Non-members: please consider joining! More info: https://t.co/HtbLakfjP0
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Awards deadline coming up! Get your nominations now!
🚨🚨 AWARD SEASON🚨🚨 The Formal Theory Section of @APSAtweets gives out four awards annually. Deadline: March 1. Nominate your favorite papers here: https://t.co/4wQ5Lyj8xQ. Self nominations encouraged! Non-members: please consider joining! More info: https://t.co/HtbLakfjP0
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🚨🚨 AWARD SEASON🚨🚨 The Formal Theory Section of @APSAtweets gives out four awards annually. Deadline: March 1. Nominate your favorite papers here: https://t.co/4wQ5Lyj8xQ. Self nominations encouraged! Non-members: please consider joining! More info: https://t.co/HtbLakfjP0
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🚨 NEW PAPERS 🚨 We develop models of dark money in elections to study how campaign finance disclosure rules affect voter learning (paper 1) and politician learning (paper 2). @keithschnak drops a thread below ⬇️
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🚨Virtual Formal Theory Workshop🚨 We're back! Today at 12:00pm EST. Don't miss it! Featuring Keith Schnakenberg (@keithschnak): "Anger and Political Conflict Dynamics" and Yasushi Asako: "Preventing Polarization by Observing Others’ Actions: Laboratory Experiments"
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Get your nominations in! Deadline: March 1. More info (including how to join the section) can be found here:
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Formal Theory (Section 52) The Formal Theory Section of the American Political Science Association is a forum for scholars who use formal theory in their
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Get your nominations in! Deadline: March 1. More info (including how to join the section) can be found here:
apsanet.org
Formal Theory (Section 52) The Formal Theory Section of the American Political Science Association is a forum for scholars who use formal theory in their
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🚨🚨 AWARD SEASON🚨🚨 The Formal Theory Section of @APSAtweets gives out four awards annually. Deadline: March 1. Nominate your favorite papers here: https://t.co/4wQ5Lyj8xQ. Self nominations encouraged! Non-members: please consider joining! More info: https://t.co/HtbLakfjP0
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