Anna Gunderson

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

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BJPolS abstract discussing the impact of gender expectations on voter behavior towards legislators regarding women's issues, including abortion and equal pay. The document is displayed in a green box with white text.

From May 2025 -

Gendered Expectations: Do Voters Reward Women for Supporting Women’s Interests? - cup.org/3YTHTQJ

- Nichole M. Bauer, @annagunderson.bsky.social, @jeonghyunkim.bsky.social, @elizabethlane.bsky.social, Belinda Davis & @kesearles.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract discussing the impact of gender expectations on voter behavior towards legislators regarding women's issues, including abortion and equal pay. The document is displayed in a green box with white text.

NEW -

Gendered Expectations: Do Voters Reward Women for Supporting Women’s Interests? - cup.org/3YTHTQJ

- Nichole M. Bauer, @annagunderson.bsky.social, @jeonghyunkim.bsky.social, @elizabethlane.bsky.social, Belinda Davis & @kesearles.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

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New article hot off the presses from American Politics Research - "State Courts, Public Opinion, and the Changing Abortion Landscape after Dobbs" with a stellar group of coauthors. See more below 👇

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Trump administration deports gay makeup artist to prison in El Salvador A gay man with no known criminal record sought asylum in the U.S. He's since become one of 238 Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration.

60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP

1/ I wonder if there's a complement to Mettler's _Submerged State_ thesis: the successful state thesis. In brief: American government has *in many ways* been so successful for so long that Americans have forgotten why they need it, making anti-government rhetoric more appealing.

This is absolutely devastating for public health, for scientific integrity, for innovation, for all Americans. I can't string together more coherent thoughts - just absolutely devastating.

Are you affected by the HHS cuts and restructuring? HHS is set to cut 10,000 jobs and consolidate divisions — have you been affected? @statnews would like to hear from you.

#HHS isn't being transparent about the cuts occurring within the department or its agencies such as #CDC, #NIH, #FDA. If you've received a RIF notice today, @statnews.com wants to know. www.statnews.com/2025/03/27/h...

Abbott’s Border Disaster Has Created a No-Bid Bonanza for Private Contractors There is now a powerful, well-heeled constituency that has built up around Operation Lone Star.

“Prosecuting people for migration is big business.”

Our top story: Over the past four years, the Texas Legislature has allocated more than $11 billion to fund the sprawling tentacles of the Operation Lone Star.

Congratulations!!!!

The DOGE Project Will Backfire Trump’s war on public employees is bad for all of us.

New, from me @theatlantic.com:
*No, the federal government is not too big
*It has real human capital needs
*Firings are indiscriminate, weakening state capacity
*Creating a toxic and politicized workplace is driving away dedicated employees
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Private Prison CEO on Trump Deportation Surge: “One of the Most Exciting Periods in My Career” CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger could barely contain his excitement about the Laken Riley Act and Trump’s anti-immigration executive orders.

Damon Hininger, CEO of private prison giant Core Civic, just told investors: " I've worked at CoreCivic for 32 years, and this is truly one of the most exciting periods in my career ... we're anticipating .. the most significant growth in our company's history."

theintercept.com/2025/02/11/c...

USAID What’s Happening & Why it Matters

What can you do about the assault on USAID?

Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Very hard to imagine any social science that would not be flagged by NSF's new censorship regime

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

This is illegal. These are crimes!

In California, Incarcerated Teenagers Help Fight Wildfires "You’re put in danger every time you’re on the fire line.”

These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

Lobbying in public: interest group activity on social media - Interest Groups & Advocacy Social media has transformed political communication by making it easy to post and free to disseminate information. Interest groups can use social media platforms to direct messages to policymakers an...

Hot off the presses @igajournal.bsky.social with @kirstenwidner.bsky.social and @mgmacdonald.bsky.social! We look at inside + outside lobbying strategies of social media groups on Facebook and Twitter. Check it out here 👇

link.springer.com/10.1057/s413...

FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces Clemency for Nearly 1,500 Americans | The White House Today’s announcement will commute the sentences of close to 1,500 individuals who were placed on home confinement and will pardon 39 individuals convicted

“The nearly 1,500 individuals who received commutations today have been serving their sentences at home for at least one year under the COVID-era CARES Act.”

This is an action that people have been pushing for since before Biden took office, and it’s very good to see.

Interested in how litigants + amicus have (and will) respond to Trump SCOTUS justices? See our new book! Open access! 🎉🎉🎉

This Trump-linked private prison stock has soared since the election, adding over $2 billion to its market cap.

So it goes, so it goes.

Fabulous research on SCOTUS by @annagunderson.bsky.social and @kirstenwidner.bsky.social The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court
Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021. They joined me on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast! newbooksnetwork.com/kirsten-widn...
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There has been a lot of commentary from scholars and journalists as to the meaning of Donald Trump’s three appointments to the United States Supreme Court – with regards to changes in jurisprudence, increased separation of the Court from political processes that legitimate it. Drs. Kirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson have done something a little different using tools from political science.

Pre-election podcast on @kirstenwidner.bsky.social and @annagunderson.bsky.social's 🔥 new book The Haves and Have-Nots in SCOTUS Representation & Participation, 2016 to 2021. The new justices have affected WHO brings cases. #History #PoliSky #gendersky #LawSky 💙📚
newbooksnetwork.com/kirsten-widn...

Kirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson, "The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021" (Cambridge UP, 2024) by New Books in Political Science An interview with Kirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson

The presidential election is days away. What are the consequences of the election for who chooses to appear before SCOTUS? @kirstenwidner.bsky.social and I's new book digs into this question. We are on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chatting about it! megaphone.link/NBNK6866203115

We are hiring at The LBJ School at UT Austin in Democratic Development, Backsliding & Capacity Building at Assistant or Associate level! Deadline 10/1. Come for tacos + a top-notch policy school.

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Candidate Gender, Campaign Appeals, and Voter Support in Judicial Elections | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

Really excited our paper on judicial campaign appeals and gender is out at @thejop.bsky.social! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Racial capitalism: a ‘former’ plantation turned into maximum security prison in which prisoners are compelled to perform barely-waged labor that produces value for some of the world’s biggest companies. Unfortunately, there’s nothing “unlikely” about it.

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