Assistant professor at the University of Arizona SGPP | studying whiteness and racial justice, probably running🏃🏼♀️
Geneva
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Annual reminder that I went to CPAC (twice!) and found that it’s not *just* the circus it looks like from the outside.
Yesterday I met a French guy who, upon finding out I’m from Minnesota, asked me if I’m from Minneapolis “or one of the villages” #StPaul #NoKings
FWIW, I'm interviewing people who experienced ICE in MN and it's not surprising to me that they didn't react with voter reg + pol donations. People are disenchanted with mainstream politics, spending spare $ on rent funds + buying groceries for neighbors. Mobilized by injustice a la @hlw.bsky.social
🚨 🚨 🚨 NEW: A shocking @USCIS memo seems to declare that hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in this country and applying for green cards must instead apply for visas abroad; which could MASSIVELY disrupt lives.
🧵 on what we know, and what we don’t.
New #OpenAccess Paper Alert! 🚨
In @apsrjournal.bsky.social, @gmcclendon.bsky.social and I present results from a collaborative field experiment with the Institute for Governance Reform around a switch from plurality rules to closed-list PR rules in Sierra Leone’s 2023 parliamentary elections. A🧵:
From our FirstView: Threats and Commitments: International Tribunals and Domestic Trials in Peace Negotiations by @genbates.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S000...
From our FirstView: The Effects of Exposure to New Electoral Rules: Field Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone by AVI AHUJA and @gmcclendon.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Geneva
This week, the Supreme Court finally killed off the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
I've spent the past decade studying the VRA and the attacks on it, so I thought I would offer some historical perspective, and where I think we're headed.
This will be a long thread; buckle up.
