Brett Bessen

(2) "Populist Discourse and Public Support for Executive Aggrandizement in Latin America" by Brett R. Bessen

@brettbessen.bsky.social

doi-org.proxy1.library.jhu.edu/10.1177/0010...

08.10.2025 14:01 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

21.02.2025 03:38 — 👍 2364    🔁 791    💬 88    📌 45

Important point: “The success of President Trump’s executive actions depends on people believing,” said Lowande. “It depends on courts, businesses, this university and other organizations acting as if the president actually has the power that he claims to.”

20.02.2025 14:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hey #polisky, our new article is officially out and available at Political Research Quarterly: doi.org/10.1177/1065...

We explore how algorithmic tools used for mail in-ballot verification impacts voters' confidence in elections. See the thread below for a rundown of key findings.

20.02.2025 12:05 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

This is a pretty incredible resignation letter. From assistant US attorney with two bronze stars and who clerked for both CJ Roberts and for Kavanaugh. #polisky

14.02.2025 18:51 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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09.02.2025 10:00 — 👍 73    🔁 85    💬 0    📌 2

Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste.
www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

14.02.2025 19:24 — 👍 12851    🔁 6131    💬 651    📌 602

You might be wondering... if democracy is under threat, shouldn't somebody be studying that? 🤔

So, yes... 👋. We're called *comparative political scientists.*

We research 🔎 why countries become democracies (or dictatorships 🤢) all over the 🌎️.

Buckle up 🚔️ !

It's time for a college class in one 🧵👇️

25.01.2025 04:30 — 👍 425    🔁 91    💬 9    📌 8

Governing in the face of a global crisis: When do voters punish and reward incumbent governments?
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Paper in @pnas.org by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow Raymond M. Duch, Peter Loewen, Thomas S. Robinson and Alexei Zakharov #PoliSky #NuffSky

24.01.2025 10:50 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Good point here by @smotus.bsky.social - strange deference to Trump's unconstitutional move on birthright citizenship versus Biden's toothless move on the ERA smotus.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

The point isn't the headlines, exactly - it's the way elites are granting deference to Trump

23.01.2025 16:07 — 👍 61    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 0