Randy Besco

You never know, maybe they randomized the order of response options 😞

Love to see our beautiful wildlife on @utm.utoronto.ca campus

Ironically the worst survey experience I've had this year is a qualtrics customer satisfaction survey.

I signed up with a panel company, and get asked maybe 5 times a year. Good to see how things feel from the other side though!

I copy pasted some text from a french-language Word document. And now Word thinks my entire document must be french, and underlined everything in red as misspelled 🤦

Paper rejected! 🤷‍♂️

Really glad to see this out, terrific work.

Paper submitted 💪

This an interesting phrasing from the Minister of Indigenous services.

"Canadians and Indigenous peoples" echoes a common phrasing "Canadians and Quebecers" used by Quebec nationalist politicians as a way of emphasizing that these are two separate groups of peoples.

(its a "help you get a Social Insurance Number") session, but pretty funny graphic design decision.

Another example of universities corrupting our youth 🤣

Yes, and generally further from Federal power in various ways.

Australian Capital Territory would complicated it though...

Great! Would be nice to have an addition to Fred Cutler's work.

Not a lot of great provincial knowledge questions, but I seem to recall names of premiers in some CES.

Free paper idea!

Do people from Ontario actually know or care less about provincial politics than people in other provinces?

Critics say causality can't be inferred from correlation. But Pinard says the critics do the same thing in their own work!

Funny to read older work - lack of attention to causality, hardly any confidence intervals, focus on class, etc.

Quite the clapback in a footnote by Pinard here though:

For those interested lurkers, Pinard 1992 also has a nice discussion of earlier periods of change, and emphasis on things like status, resentment, and grievance (rather than economics and language).

Very kind of you, but I think I've got it sorted.

Yet another reminder that stuff on internet often just disappears!

This is a great idea. Internet Archive proves its worth yet again.

The Paper Skygest feed is excellent and you should all add it.

If you want to see research/paper posts, its clearly the best thing around. Almost like old academic twitter.

Thanks a lot!

Also, there are almost no recent items on traditional or social media. Which is surprising, given the amount of research on it, role in the Trump administration, changes like Twitter and the Post, etc.

maybe @goodauth.bsky.social should add some!

Sadly some older stuff is now paywalled, such as MOF at Vox, and its hard to get students access. Same for paid Substacks, libraries don't really know what to do with that. Something to keep in mind.

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your work is really appreciated!

I'm just finishing my American Politics syllabus, and used a bunch of podasts/substacks/explainers.

So thank you very much to @goodauth.bsky.social @adambonica.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social @juliaazari.bsky.social @egojunk.bsky.social @proflupton.bsky.social @sarahbinder.bsky.social and..

A list experiment! So rare in political science, I like it.

Very surprising there isn't more difference by partisanship, although I suppose that estimate is adjusting for education, gender, etc.

Totally forgot that Converse 1964 include a discussion of ideology and mass support of the Nazi party!

Thanks!

Any suggestions
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Adding some material to our PhD Canadian course on political behavior of Quebec nationalism/sovereignty.

Do you have recommendations for classic or influential pieces?

Now with interrupted time series analysis.

None of this "turnout just keeps going down because of bowling alone" or something. Looks to me like it just went down once, due to end of door-knocking to make the electors lists.

Well, my theory is that it's the switch to the permanent electors list. They used to have like 100k door to door canvasers to update the list every election. But that stopped in 1997. No one coming to you door to remind and enroll you leads to lower turnout.

(In Canada, to be clear)