No cover just yet, but still excited to see the pre-order up for my next book!
Some thoughts on what Trump has done in Venezuela and what it might mean for US national security. Caveat: not a Latin America scholar so this is focused on US policy. Clearly huge consequences for Venezuela that others can address.
First, despite the buildup, I didn't think Trump would do it.
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There's significant evidence from state legislative term limits that they do, in fact, empower both lobbyists and state executive branches.
"Disagreeing" without offering any counter-evidence is just vibes.
New open access paper at @polcommjournal.bsky.social with @jsievert.bsky.social: we find that messages oriented towards national politics polarize people's views and evaluations of candidates and that messages stressing local matters sometimes do the opposite.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Roads to Congress 2024 is out!
I've got a chapter about the only toss-up district in the South--the 1st district in #ncpol, (I also discuss redistricting in NC more generally), but there is lots of good stuff in the book even if you couldn't care less about the 1st
Check it out!
#polisky
Things I can't stop thinking about (not most impt but still), a running list: this is the pet project of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, also the NSA, Acting National Archivist, and Acting head of now-dead USAID, which would be useful in a post-Maduro scenario. 1/
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A functioning Congress will have articles of impeachment drafted by the end of the day.
Our Congress will just go to social media to basically say “We don’t like this, but what are you gonna do?”
Joel Sievert
Joel Sievert
Who did members of the early United States Senate represent? Many scholarly and popular political accounts of the Antebellum era assume that senators were exclusively representatives of the state gove...
