Rachel Blum

Democracy, more than anything is a practice. I always think that the Civil Rights Movement succeeded because from the Civil War black Americans built institutions: universities, fraternities and sororities, churches, that engaged them in democratic practice.

You guys put podcast hosts in charge of the FBI and fired all the competent agents because you thought they were woke.

Hot off the presses! @upennprc.bsky.social

Does this maybe involve research in Ireland? 😉

I couldn’t agree more. In my book, I give a framework of modern U.S. factions as an inherently intra-party phenomenon.

Intra-party politics scholars having fun in a bar

Intra-party politics night out in Madrid #EPSA2025 #falafel

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Title and abstract of the paper

On Thursday at 11:20 (0A.08) I'll be presenting "Comparing Intra-Party Factional Conflict: An Inductive Approach Using Leadership Contests", co-authored with @blumrm.bsky.social and @malpas.bsky.social in the panel "Intra-Party Conflict in Comparative Perspective" #EPSA2025
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You’re the best!

It’s been an exciting day at the Carl Albert Center! 🎉

The public really needs to understand this. Every university system in the world rests on public funding, there has never been an alternative model at any time in history.

We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.

Postcard from Trumpland

even if literally all domestic consumption in agriculture and, say, the auto industry were domestic--which it won't be--automation means those industries would *still* not support the number of workers they did in the past. Nor were those jobs as great as folks remember. It's all false nostalgia.

1. Short everything
2. Announce tariffs
3. Close out short positions
4. Buy the dip
5. Call off the tariffs
6. Sell the spike
7. Repeat

Is there any reason to believe Trump's entire inner circle isn't doing this?

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Left diagram shows basic checks and balance powers between executive and legislative branches; right diagram shows that legislative impeachment powers do not function under partisan polarization.

Put simply, constitutional checks and balances are not functioning as intended because the system was not designed for agents with robust partisanship that is highly polarized. A polarized legislature is unable to check other branches effectively because partisan incentives beat institutional ones.

Actually, I might be here for los gatos. #spsa2025

Hello from the same beach!

I’m here for the birds. #spsa2025

Cover image of 'Cooperating Factions' by Blum and Noel

New Cambridge Element 'Cooperating Factions' by @blumrm.bsky.social & @profhansnoel.bsky.social is now free to read for 4 weeks!

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"This Element uses data on party leader endorsements in nominations to identify a network of party actors..."

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Anything from @blumrm.bsky.social is a MUST read!

Be sure to check out this new book by our Carl Albert Center and OU Political Science colleague Rachel Blum @blumrm.bsky.social and Hans Noel @profhansnoel.bsky.social

New pub with Jon Green, @kshoub.bsky.social, and Lindsey Cormack! Happy Saturday. 😉

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I missed the survey request when I read your last newsletter but thanks to this post I found it and took it. ;-)

Brilliant!

Seems like a good day to read @blumrm.bsky.social, How the Tea Party Captured the GOP.