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Scott Althaus

@salthaus.bsky.social

Cline Center Director, professor of political science and communication at Illinois, current data scientist, former Tower Rat. www.clinecenter.illinois.edu

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Current Board Members - ANES | American National Election Studies

Dear ANES community, the link below introduces our new Board of Advisors, led by Jamie Druckman. Jamie follows John Aldrich, who deftly chaired the Board for nearly 2 decades. This new group will guide us through the 2028 election cycle. Our deepest thanks to outgoing and incoming Board members!

03.03.2026 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

✨Get yourself some FREE BOOK CHAPTERS!!! 🀩‡️

(Temporarily open access)

08.01.2026 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Instead of treating all individuals and groups equally with respect to their status, power, or ends, a group theory of political communication requires normative analysis of the positioning of groups vis-a-vis one another and liberal democracy."

04.12.2025 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Prediction Markets? The Accuracy and Efficiency of $2.4 Billion in the 2024 Presidential Election"

osf.io/preprints/so...

02.12.2025 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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A Climate β€˜Shock’ Is Eroding Some Home Values. New Data Shows How Much. (Gift Article) Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.

β€œThey won’t insure you,” Ms. Rojas said. β€œNo one will buy from you. You’re kind of stuck where you are.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

29.11.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5

New work examining how people’s use of multiple platforms is associated in being exposed to ideas they might not agree with.

04.11.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We've just published the most comprehensive study of news creators to date covering 24 countries. Authored by Nic Newman @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social, it identifies the most mentioned in each country

πŸ“±Report buff.ly/bL6y8Hj
🧡6 findings in thread

28.10.2025 07:48 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 7

It is finally finished and released! I was proud to be a member of the Task Force on 2024 Pre-Election Polling, and to play just a small role in producing this report.
Here is the report:
aapor.org/wp-content/u...
And here is the Executive Summary: aapor.org/wp-content/u...

29.10.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 4
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Join us on October 30th at 2:30 pm for the Annual Richard G. and Carol J. Cline Symposium. Experts will discuss β€œAccountable Policing after the SAFE-T Act” in a roundtable on Zoom. RSVP here: buff.ly/lKLRF2L

27.10.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

US soybean farmers have to be one of the strongest Trump-voting constituencies in the country.

14.10.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This shift is reshaping how we interact with information. Worth a read.

13.10.2025 02:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That Memorial Day I decided to spend a few hours of internet searching to honor his memory by seeing what I could find out about his last mission.

And I found out more than I expected. But that's for the next post... (4/4)

19.09.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My family's journey started on Memorial Day 2013 when I remembered back when I was a boy visiting a family burial plot with a large stone with the image of a B-24 bomber engraved on it. I vaguely remembered that all our family ever knew was that he'd been shot down somewhere over New Guinea. (3/)

19.09.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mission Miles 2025 What is Mission Miles 2025? * From September 1st to September 30th, walk, hike, run, ruck, or bike 100 miles in honor of America’s missing-in-action (MIA) service members who have yet to return hom...

This month is Project Recover's "Mission Miles" fundraiser that aims to raise awareness of the more than 81,000 American families like mine who have a relative who is Missing In Action.

If you'd like to donate to this effort, please follow this link:

runsignup.com/heaven-can-w...

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19.09.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today is POW/MIA Remembrance Day in the US, a day set aside for remembering those who gave their lives for our country in wartime and are still Missing In Action.

As most of you know, I'm a volunteer for Project Recover, a nonprofit that finds and repatriates the remains of American MIAs. (1/)

19.09.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Home Project Recover is a collaborative effort to find and repatriate American MIAs for their recognition and closure for families and the Nation.

His homecoming was made possible because of the work of Project Recover, a nonprofit devoted to finding and repatriating the remains of Americans missing in action from past wars. They found my relative's plane under more than 200 feet of water back in 2017.

www.projectrecover.org

16.09.2025 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This coming Friday 9/19 is national POW/MIA Recognition Day in the US. One of my relatives was MIA from WW2 until earlier this year: this past May I and other relatives buried the remains of 2Lt. Thomas V. Kelly, Jr. in Livermore CA 81 years after his death.

He is missing no longer. He is home.

15.09.2025 09:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Global news media call on U.S. to scrap new visa proposal 2025-09-11. Dozens of major news and journalist organisations worldwide are urging the U.S. government to drop a proposal that would drastically shorten the time foreign correspondents can live and wo...

Important issue: when journalists’ visa are reduced in length it creates uncertainty, chilling effects, and ultimately worse reporting from within the US.

That might be the purpose. But it is hugely problematic.

wan-ifra.org/2025/09/dont...

11.09.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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F.B.I. Plans to Lower Recruiting Standards, Alarming Agents

New Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent training to go from 18 weeks to 8 weeks, and dropping the degree requirement?
If the plan is to make the FBI a laughing stock, this is the way to do it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...

24.08.2025 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Donald Kinder Receives the 2025 Ithiel de Sola PoolΒ Award The Ithiel de Sola Pool Award and LectureshipΒ is presented triennially by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor a scholar whose research explores a broad range of fields pursued by Ithiel de Sola Pool; including political theory, political behavior, political communication, science and technology policy, and international affairs.Β  Professor Donald Kinder will deliver the Pool Lecture on Friday, September 12th at 2pm PDT as part of theΒ 

Donald Kinder Receives the 2025 Ithiel de Sola PoolΒ Award

The Ithiel de Sola Pool Award and LectureshipΒ is presented triennially by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor a scholar whose research explores a broad range of fields pursued by Ithiel de Sola Pool; including…

22.08.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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More UChicago Ph.D. Programs Will Pause Admissions The Arts and Humanities dean said β€œnearly all” faculty leaders preferred β€œa broader pause for the division.” Some social sciences programs also aren't accepting new students.

More UChicago Ph.D. Programs Pause Admissions in Humanities, Social Sciences

22.08.2025 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Top 50 English-language news sites in the world: All but four report traffic declines in July Press Gazette lists the top 50 most popular news websites in the world. Monthly updated top 50 listing based on data provided by SimilarWeb.

Traffic for the world’s top-50 news websites swung sharply into the red in July, according to Press Gazette’s exclusive traffic ranking pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

20.08.2025 10:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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What it's like being a political communication professor right now Misgivings, Grievances, and Thanks as I look ahead to my fifteenth year.

Next week I'll begin my fifteenth year as a political communication professor.

I wrote up some thoughts on what it's like trying to teach this subject while everything falls apart.

open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

19.08.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 185    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 17
Assistant Professor- American Political Institution- Department of Political Science Duties & Responsibilities

Illinois political science has two TT faculty searches open, one in US political institutions and the other in political behavior. Come join our faculty!

American Political Institutions: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Political Behavior: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

11.08.2025 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Our latest release of SPOTLITE data offers for the first time a comprehensive picture of the demographic characteristics of civilians involved in police uses of lethal force on a national scale, including incidents without lethal outcomes.

30.07.2025 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Examine this chart from @niemanlab.org. It ranks the top 50 LOCAL news sites by number of monthly visits.

You'd expect LA Times to be high on the list. But The Post-Standard in Syracuse, NY? Let @joshuabenton.com explain. And see where your local newspaper falls.

www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/how-...

25.07.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 126    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 3
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So the UN Global Risks Report is out...
& it lists Mis- and Disinformation as the biggest risk we face.
unglobalriskreport.org

Listen... I'm a mis- and Disinformation kinda guy, meaning I worry about this professionally.
But there is no way this issue should be all the way up there!
Plus...

25.07.2025 07:09 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

Hooray! The 31st Issue of the #PolComm Report is out!
What a fantastic lineup @igoncalves.com was able to assemble for the topic of "Teaching PolComm" 🀩

Khadijah Costley White, @kcoe.bsky.social & Diana Zulli, Regina Cazzamatta, Matthew Powers, & @sangjung-kim.bsky.social (& her students).

23.07.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Residents of every county in the United States can explore SPOTLITE incident records from their own communities to better understand local trends in police uses of lethal force.

clinecenter.illinois.edu/spotlite

24.07.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Research: Police uses of lethal force dropped dramatically in US from 2021-23 – News Bureau

Big news from the @cline-center.bsky.social: police uses of lethal force in the US dropped 24% from 2021 to 2023, with 2023 having the smallest number of lethal force incidents involving police since 2015.

news.illinois.edu/research-pol...

24.07.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1