James Kirk
@jameskirk_14
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Ph.D. Candidate in American Politics at @NotreDame • urban-rural divide | religion and politics | education policy • @FrostburgState '18
South Bend, Indiana
Joined November 2020
It’s an honor to share that I have successfully defended my dissertation, “Which Shepherds to Follow?: Cross-Pressures Catholic Politics in a Polarized America.” Next, I am thrilled to join the Government Department @smithcollege as a Visiting Assistant Professor this fall!
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Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity https://t.co/Ek3fv0rqUb "We find that many treatments reduce partisan animosity. Additionally, several treatments reduced antidemocratic attitudes."
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Very excited to share that the main paper from the Strengthening Democracy Challenge is out today in @ScienceMagazine! It’s been a long road to get to get to this point. 🧵👇 https://t.co/lLEeLIOJp1
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I’m so proud and grateful to have been just a small part of this project over the last few years, and of how it shows the ability of social science to address the challenges that American democracy faces today. Excited to see our final results out in @ScienceMagazine!
🚨 Strengthening Americans’ Democratic Attitudes🚨 For the last 4 years, we crowdsourced and tested ideas for ⬇️ antidemocratic attitudes & partisan animosity. A 🧵 on all papers, published/IP @ScienceMagazine (🆕 https://t.co/F9yarhq7nx🆕),
@PNASNews (2x), @NatureHumBehav (2x).
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Huge shoutouts to @wzcmarsh, Levi Allen, and the many folks @NDRooneyCenter and various conferences for valuable feedback, and to the reviewers and editorial team at APR!
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I’m excited to share my new article in APR examining the political trust gap across America’s urban-rural divide. https://t.co/ztTL944Gnt
journals.sagepub.com
Do rural Americans trust the government less than non-rural Americans? In an era of declining trust in government and mounting geographic polarization, this res...
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I’m incredibly grateful to the @apsa_section11 for awarding me a grant to support my dissertation project, “Which Shepherds to Follow? Cross-Pressured Catholic Politics in a Polarized America!”
Check out the 2023 Religion and Politics Small Grant recipients. Congratulations! https://t.co/bsqKUc2n9b
@jameskirk_14 @dzcontrerasg @KRedjaboev @KhabibaU @BrooklynEvann
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Looking forward to being back in Maryland next month talking about the political intersection of rural identity and religion!
📣📣 Constructing and Deconstructing Evangelicalism @AndrewChalfoun @jameskirk_14
#SSSR_RRA2022 >> https://t.co/xSZFFsrMPc
@UCLA @lasierranews @NotreDame
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🧵After 3 years, the WP for my first team science project is out!🧵 Below I share some lessons for conducting megastudies that we learned along the way of designing and running the Strengthening Democracy Challenge! I hope these can be helpful for others👇
🚨New WP: How can we reduce partisan animosity & anti-democratic attitudes in US?🚨 We share results of the Strengthening Democracy Challenge: N=32k megastudy testing 25 depolarization interventions Shows effective treatments for many neg outcomes! 🧵👇 https://t.co/2LrfQtS5Fa
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🚨New WP: How can we reduce partisan animosity & anti-democratic attitudes in US?🚨 We share results of the Strengthening Democracy Challenge: N=32k megastudy testing 25 depolarization interventions Shows effective treatments for many neg outcomes! 🧵👇 https://t.co/2LrfQtS5Fa
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Proud to be a part of the Strengthening Democracy Challenge with our @NDRooneyCenter team @ProfMattHall @wzcmarsh and Levi Allen. Our intervention primes partisans to consider their party’s political strength with the goal of reducing perceived outpartisan threat.
⚡️Partisan Threat @ProfMattHall, @wzcmarsh, Levi Allen, @jameskirk_14 To decrease perceptions of threat for the other party, participants are told facts that demonstrate their party’s political dominance and that the country will lean toward their party for foreseeable future.
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Excited to have a couple of projects accepted at #APSA2022, including one with my brilliant colleague Levi Allen. Looking forward to talking religion and American politics in Montréal!
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Excited to be a part of this new report with @socialconcerns. We use survey data collected from @NotreDame students to better understand public opinion and political engagement among the university community. Loads of interesting insights about the politics of young Americans!
Democratic engagement at @NotreDame: Check out this new report on the 2020 post-election student survey from ND's Center for Social Concerns @socialconcerns. Find out how ND students voted, what issues motivated them, & how they compare to their peers:
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The real shit is that there's not much Biden can do. He's not doing the wrong Messaging™ or "too close to activists." Problems facing center-left parties are long term & structural. Best hope for Dems was to use policy--but we learned that 2 pivotal senators don't want that.
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There’s no dress code for defending voting rights today.
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Today, @NotreDame's @NDRooneyCenter for the Study of American Democracy is proud to announce the #January6th, 2025 Project, a collaborative effort with scholars across the country to study and combat the continuing threats to American democracy. https://t.co/0vhyQPd8dR
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Another semester of grad school down! This one was brutal but I managed to ✅Pass my American Politics comp ✅Present for the first time at #APSA2021 ✅Teach two discussion sections of amazing students Feeling grateful and ready for some rest!
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I could watch this all weekend! #GoIrish☘️
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I am thrilled to share that I will be joining the Department of Political Science faculty at the University of Notre Dame this coming fall as an Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science! Thank you to everyone who has offered me love, guidance, and support! Go Irish ☘️!
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