Kirby Goidel

Inside Political Science - YouTube What do you know about politics? What should you know? Forget views, beliefs and opinions - politics is really a science. In this audio and video podcast, Dr...

Todd takes the reins for this one while on his yearly European study abroad.

Recorded in Germany, Texas A&M and University of Passau students debate political systems, issues, social media, populism, fake news and more in our latest episode.
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I have my best ideas when I am not working! 😂

Inside Political Science - YouTube What do you know about politics? What should you know? Forget views, beliefs and opinions - politics is really a science. In this audio and video podcast, Dr...

The latest episode of Inside Political Science is out. I talk to Clifford Young at Ipsos about pollsters as guides and the art and science of interpreting poll numbers and our forthcoming book Nativist Nation - examining the politics of immigration.

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Trump still would have won in 2024 even if everyone had turned out to vote, Pew finds In 2024, 64% of the eligible-voting population turned out, the second highest in 120 years. New data show that even if all those voters who stayed home had voted, Trump would still be president today.

The Democrats didn’t lose to the couch but we already knew that, right?

Trump still would have won in 2024 even if everyone had voted

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Wow, college baseball is broken. Thrown out for arguing balls and strikes?

Inside Political Science - YouTube What do you know about politics? What should you know? Forget views, beliefs and opinions - politics is really a science. In this audio and video podcast, Dr...

What issues matter to college students? Is there hope for political common ground among the next generation? Three Texas A&M students join us on our new episode of “Inside Political Science” for a robust discussion of student perspectives.

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That Cup of Coffee May Have a Longer-Term Perk

Personal biases confirmed! 😂 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/w... Drinking Coffee Is Associated With a Longer, Healthier Life, According to a New Study - The New York Times

‘People say my book gave them a panic attack’: When We Cease to Understand the World author Benjamín Labatut His page-turning books about quantum physics and game theory have given the Chilean writer a cult following – and won him famous fans from Stephen Fry to Björk and Barack Obama

What a weirdly gripping and captivating book - “When We Cease to Understand the World.” I finished it and bought “The Maniac” immediately. www.theguardian.com/books/articl...

After immigration crackdown, international students in Texas self-censor to protect their education The legal status and visas of more than 250 international students were abruptly revoked.

This quote 😂. “Unless you’re a political science major, you came here for an education. Take and make something out of it,” youthtoday.org/2025/05/afte...

Inside Political Science - YouTube What do you know about politics? What should you know? Forget views, beliefs and opinions - politics is really a science. In this audio and video podcast, Dr...

On the latest episode of "Inside Political Science," we talk with Boston University’s Matt Motta about the science of politics and his book “Anti-Scientific Americans.”

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I want pass/fail plus rank in class. 😂

Spencer Goidel & @kirbygoidel.bsky.social explore how nostalgia & authoritarianism influenced public attitudes within the U.S. context. Nostalgic Americans are more likely to support political strongmen, violations of rules, norms, & institutions, & the use of political violence against opponents.

Kentucky's cantankerous lawmakers create headaches for Trump Massie is fundraising off Trump's primary threat.

Cantankerous Kentuckians as a headline and it wasn’t referencing me or @gaddiewindage.bsky.social

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Sorry to hear this.

So what would an elected official do if they believed this extinction-level? Storm the Capitol? 😜 kind of joking, but what is the counterfactual here? Especially when you lose elections.

America's college chaos It's total warfare on all aspects of higher education

Can we be serious? The U.S. has the best colleges and universities in the world. A college degree continues to have real world economic value, and colleges throughout the country are drivers of their local economies. This “chaos” has been manufactured.

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Yes to Koch, No to Woke: Public Opinion, Free Markets, and Business Involvement in Politics Abstract. In this paper, we use data from the 2022 Cooperative Election Study to explore the relationship between partisanship, attitudes toward free marke

Support for business involvement in politics is instrumental not principled. academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

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The latest episode of Inside Political Science has been released! Todd and I talk to Brandon Rottinghaus @bjrottinghaus about Texas politics and presidential greatness!!

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Have you ever wondered what the public thinks about weight loss medications like Ozempic?

I'm excited to say that my new paper with @mattmotta.bsky.social and colleagues tackles this question, examining public concerns about safety and supply shortages. Check it out here 👇!
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Inside Political Science - YouTube What do you know about politics? What should you know? Forget views, beliefs and opinions - politics is really a science. In this audio and video podcast, Dr...

Do the first 100 days of a presidency still matter? In the latest Inside Political Science episode, we tackle presidential honeymoons and the Hunter Biden pardon. Plus, $587,000 a year!? Why Gen Z thinks that’s the number needed for comfort.
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Inside Political Science Podcast · KAMU Studios · What do you know about politics? What should you know? Forget views, beliefs and opinions – politics is really a science. In this audio and video podcast, Dr. Kirby Goidel and...

In the latest episode of Inside Political Science, we talk to Heath Brown, author of Roadblocked: Joe Biden's Rocky Transition to the Presidency about the politics of presidential transitions.

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Calls to “save democracy” won’t work if there is little agreement on what democracy is Most people in the US agree that American democracy is in danger, but there is little consensus on what that threat means. In their new book, Nicholas T. Davis, Kirby Goidel and Keith Gaddie look a…

If only someone had thought to write a book on this before 2024. I even sent our LSE blog post blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...