According to the May @apsa.bsky.social's eJobs bulletin, tenure-track job postings are still 27% below where they were at this point in the 2023–24 cycle.
Thomas J Wood
Still counting votes, but the breadth of the shift towards Paxton, and how modestly the shift varies geographically, is striking
In the April @apsa.bsky.social ejobs release, we're still tracking a 30% decline in political science tenure track jobs since 2023-24.
This compares each market to the average post 2016 year:
Bookmakers have shifted Democratic chances of winning the White House in 2028 by 2pp since the start of the Iran war
Striking partisan stability in Israel/Gaza attitudes in the 2025 CES study
Given declining US confidence in institutions overall, striking that low election confidence is *not* a secular trend--instead 2020 is the disjuncture.
Plot shows the winner/loser effect demonstrated by
Charles Stewart and others. Data from @mitelectionlab.bsky.social
The vivid partisan sorting of US house districts by income and party -- 2005 -2024
Pedagogical opportunity to remind undergraduates that the Democratic party used to dominate the presidential vote in the Mahoning Valley.
Political Science's academic job market having its worst post-Covid year -- almost 20% fewer jobs than at the same point in the previous cycle (which itself was bad!)
Data scraped from APSA ejobs pdfs.
