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Doctors vs. doctors: intra-associational conflict and federalism - Interest Groups & Advocacy Interest Groups & Advocacy - If associations include multiple constituencies with conflicting preferences, whose preferences will they represent? We argue that the higher the territorial level...

"Doctors vs. doctors: intra-associational conflict and federalism" new Interest Groups & Advocacy link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It’s not just that the number of filed discharge petitions is up this year (though it is; see below).

Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On

wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)

The friends we met along the way, etc.

Opinion | My Bosses Were Afraid of Crossing Trump. So, I Quit. A veteran journalist opens up on the censorship that he says led to his resignation.

This kind of self-censorship is a key way our media is failing us. Kudos to Greenblatt for his integrity, and to Politico for publishing this.

Former President Donald Trump speaks from behind the Oval Office lectern while turning toward three senior officials standing beside him. The officials—identified as Todd Blanche, Pam Bondi, and Kash Patel—stand in front of FBI and DOJ briefing posters. All appear serious as Trump gestures mid-sentence, emphasizing a point during the press event.

Other authoritarians at least tried to hide their corruption. Trump plasters it on the front page of The NYTimes.

We only learned about Imelda Marcos's shoe collection after anti-corruption protesters stormed the palace. Trump is out there showing us his loot and handing us the bill.

Lobbyists interviewed for the piece describe the old levers of influence and intelligence as increasingly broken, starting with Congress. “Congress has basically taken itself out of the equation,” said Rich Gold, who heads Holland & Knight’s public policy and regulation group. “There is a perception that Democrats have not fought back, and Republicans have basically ceded all their authority to the president.”

Per @politico.com , the lobbyists are basically treating Article I as dead.

Congrats!

We often say Congress has the power of the purse, a framing coming from the Federalist Papers. But to be technical, it is federal law that has the power of the purse. Appropriations bills are laws! Rather than a fight between branches, it's better to think of this as a question of the rule of law.

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Does lobbying access actually mean lobbying influence?

In our new @jeppjournal.bsky.social paper we try to answer this key question in interest group politics and lobbying by exploring models of access = influence translation.

Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... is #OA

Do think tanks coordinate with interest groups or protect their turf? J A H Whittlestone, C K Florczak & @mbklitgaard.bsky.social examine alliances and autonomy in corporatist systems. Read more: buff.ly/uvX3e6O

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci

Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.

Lost science series is documenting the research that is being cut in the US www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c... 🧪

New Perspectives on Lobbying Regulation and Reform This Special Collection presents research on lobbying regulation and reform representative of two generations of scholarship. Contributions examine regulatory ...

Proud to announce the new @igajournal.bsky.social Special Collection, “New Persoectives on Lobbying Regulation and Reform: Two Generations of Research.” This great set of articles was guest edited by Ray Chari of Trinity College Dublin. link.springer.com/collections/...

EDDIE NKETIAH'S GREATEST ARSENAL GOAL EVER 🔴

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The "Lobbying and Advocacy" panel is at 4pm today. Don't miss the exciting five presentations on lobbying and policy advocacy. @davidryanmiller.com @timlapira.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social #APSA25

Harvard's Steve Levitsky said in April that "We are no longer living in a democratic regime" www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

But what this <gestures wildly> is can be hard to describe. We tend to think in binaries, but there's a continuum from democracy to authoritarianism & we're headed the wrong way.

This is what you do when you’ve given up on competing for elections

Lobby not lie. But feel free to interpret that as you will.

Check out our new little paper with a simple but surprising (to many) fact: most “special interests” that lie by the govt don’t have a PAC for campaign donations. All too often lobbying and campaign contributions are conflated. With @clarebrock.bsky.social and @alexanderfurnas.com

A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.

The Snitch State

This is the nightmare of many faculty at public institutions in GOP-controlled states… being ratted out by students to hostile administrators.

Former student emails to ask “essential readings on democratic backsliding.”

I have thoughts but looking for accessible, evidence-informed political science/adjacent work for a curious, intrinsically motivated person who’s not in interested in debating with you.

Suggestions?

It's difficult to convey the extent to which the modal administrator's dream university has no faculty. Just admins with fake jobs flying around on expense accounts and students putting cash in a vending machine that prints out a degree after 4 yrs. Ideally the two groups never see each other.

If all goes to plan over the next few days, Arsenal will have made six first-team signings before the start of their pre-season tour. That has never happened before at #AFC in the 23 years since the current transfer window system was introduced.

Came here to say this

Paramount has joined Disney in paying bribes to Donald Trump, the Washington Post killed its Harris endorsement, Fox News functions as Republican state media, and the X algorithm amplifies fascist content. Here's why the media has a liberal bias problem.

Protection racket, pure and simple.

University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration

Let's be really clear here.

Authoritarian politics just won again.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...