Nick Davis
@ntd
political scientist at football-u, outdoorsperson, gardener of two small humans
A variation of this debate about economic epistemology happens on social media pretty cyclically and I’m not theres ever really that much gained or lost every time it happens other than people get really weird
Cambridge University Press asking authors to sell off licensing rights relating to their work to GenAI — what a time to be alive
Lovely little passage in The Union War acknowledging that democracy involves political *and* economic freedom. Cc: @kjephd.bsky.social
May as well assign this in all my classes moving forward — a long form essay about why students can’t read long form essays.
When you’re really high up it makes you wonder and I wish more people felt that feeling and maybe then the world wouldn’t be so ugly.
imho ideological language is sanitary bullshit. Call‘em Republicans because they vote with their nominating party nearly every time.
the upshot? diffuse support has cratered among democrats and it has shown signs of softening among republicans, too (late 2024...which updates our data from the AJPS piece). substantive takeaway? the public might just come around to significant reforms if you hammered it. (3/3)
we then tested how specific and diffuse support relate to these reforms. turns out ample supplies of diffuse support generate opposition to reform among both democrats and republicans (as past research predicts). but dont sleep on specific support for "modest" reforms like term limits. (2/3)
some grafs that are relevant to reform, drawn from our short book "supremely polarizing" (1/3)
Still complaining about his divorce and pining for daddy. You know the years march along but some things never change. 😍
Here I sit atop the camper, trying to reinstall weather stripping that decided to yeet itself off the rail while driving down the road. Camping is just an elaborate ruse to drain your wallet with tiny moments of memory-making sprinkled in.