RT @timothymfrye: Happy to announce the publication of Workplace Politics: How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections. With @dszakonyi….

We conclude by drawing implications for autocratic politics, political economy, democratic theory, and the case of Russia. Along the way, we have many colorful anecdotes, as well as some priceless posters and text messages encouraging workers to vote. Hope you enjoy it.

Workplace mobilization raises normative questions. It can increase turnout, but may also restrict voter autonomy. We discuss the conditions under which workplace mobilization of voters may be consistent with democratic theory with a focus on the US case.

We identify an intriguing tradeoff: Politicians and employers can use coercion to mobilize workers in some sectors, but voters outside those sectors overwhelmingly disapprove of the tactic. So free media can help reduce the most coercive forms of workplace mobilization.

Data from Argentina, Indonesia, Georgia, Nigeria, Russia, Ukraine, Venezuela, and the US indicates that workplace mobilization is common, often coercive, and unpopular. We also find that it is mostly likely to occur in sectors dependent on the state and in slack labor markets.

Happy to announce the publication of Workplace Politics: How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections. With @dszakonyi and @reutertweets, I examine when, why, and how politicians and employers pressure their workers to vote in elections.

RT @DavidAFrench: Great tweet and a beautiful expression of First Amendment values.

RT @LettieriDC: Sen. Hawley says, "For decades, working Americans have seen their wages flatline.". Here's wages for the past three decades….

Now available for preorder from Oxford University Press. Pleasure to work with @reutertweets and @dszakonyi on this project. @OUPAcademic

Some Feeral judges are weighing taking control of their own security, worried that President Trump could order U.S. marshals to stand down in retaliation for a decision that didn’t go his way. via @WSJ.

I'm stepping down as editor of Post-Soviet Affairs at the end of the year and Taylor and Francis is looking for a new editor. Please spread the word. Details are available here.

RT @HarrimanInst: Register by 4pm to attend tomorrow's talk by economist @ICSID_Yakovlev: "Business-Government Relations in Russia Before a….

RT @DougJBalloon: American democracy will be under assault as never before over the next four years. That's why we're hiring two new repor….

RT @timothymfrye: I did a short "explainer" interview with Faculti on my recent research on public support in the US for aid to Ukraine. @H….

I did a short "explainer" interview with Faculti on my recent research on public support in the US for aid to Ukraine. @HarrimanInst @Mylovanov @OxanaShevel @ColumbiaSocSci.

RT @awealthofcs: Unemployment rate 4.1%. Inflation rate 2.4%. 10 year treasury rate 4.3%. Real GDP growth 2.8%. If there is such a thing as….

RT @JRubinBlogger: if so then -- shocker -- a great deal of press coverage has been wrong and plain misleading.

RT @paulkrugman: WSJ survey of economists. This is as close to unanimity as the profession gets

RT @HarrimanInst: Harriman faculty member @timothymfrye published an article in @PSQuarterly on public opinion on U.S. aid to Ukraine. Read….

Very well deserved. This is a terrific book.