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The Path of Law: Legal Uncertainty and Issues of First Impression in the U.S. Courts of Appeals - https://cup.org/42XsrF0

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Write a quick comment opposing this awful rule that would effectively exclude international students from our Ph.D. programs. Just takes a few minutes. Here's mine.

It took me less than 5 mins to write a comment about how integral international PhD students are to scientific production, and to the US' economic and cultural power.

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Happy to share that my article, "The Political Transformation of Corporate America, 2001-2022," has been published in the American Political Science Review (@apsrjournal.bsky.social)! Link here: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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The head of the entire parks division (Josh D'Amaro) doesn't have a CFScore in DIME (looks like he has only contributed to Disney's corporate PAC). But the presidents of Disneyland and Disney World both have right-wing CFScores (1.07 and 0.78), as does the chief counsel for Disneyland (0.98).

Yes, #2 seems correct (see the blow plot); in addition to Iger, the same is true for Dana Walden.

On #3, also interesting is that the right-wing mass in the density consists entirely of execs from the parks division (though some have made few contributions, so take w/ a grain of salt).

Gotta take our victories where we can.

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Nothing about this is fine...

Here's the forthcoming APSR paper ICYMI. www.reillysteel.com/s/Steel_Poli...

We've seen the same pattern with law firms and many others. I don't see this stopping anytime soon.

Why so different? My conjecture would be that the threat that Trump will rescind discretionary access to critical permissions needed to do business (e.g., broadcast licenses) overrides any principles that might have otherwise led business leaders to push back.

Recall that three years ago, under pressure from employees and others, Disney publicly opposed the DeSantis-backed Florida legislation commonly known as the "Don't Say Gay" bill. Today, things look very different.

Disney's indefinite suspension of Kimmel is a big moment in part b/c Disney has a pretty liberal groups of executives, including the two individuals who reportedly made the decision (Bob Iger and Dana Walden). Here's a plot, based on data from my forthcoming APSR paper.

this looks very cool

most random appointment of an SEC enforcement director ever? presumably very smart (former SCOTUS clerk, etc.), but also...a military judge and lecturer on military law?

…and I’ve successfully defended my dissertation at @princetonpolitics.bsky.social! Thanks to @nolanmc.bsky.social @jkastellec.bsky.social Gleason Judd and Frances Lee for all the tough questions and invaluable advice!

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Old money: Campaign finance and gerontocracy in the United States Politicians in the United States rank among the oldest globally. This study examines how money in politics contributes to age inequality in political …

@adambonica.bsky.social and I are economists now (economist salary coming soon, I imagine)

Ungated until the end of September: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out the full paper for more findings and thoughts on takeaways: ssrn.com/abstract=474...

Executive power has been perhaps the starkest divide between D's and R's, with R's using language associated w/ expansive presidential authority...and also associating exec power w/ various markers of authoritarianism.

Constitutional language has been an especially prominent locus for partisan conflict, with differences along both substantive and methodological dimensions.

There has been a meaningful partisan divide in the language used by the OLC (along various salient dimensions), but unlike broader trends in polarization, this gap has experienced limited growth over time.

In the paper, "Political Threads in Legal Tapestry: A Computational Analysis of Executive Branch Legal Interpretation, 1934-2022," I use machine learning methods to analyze an original corpus of all published Office of Legal Counsel opinions. Lots of interesting findings, such as...

Abstract for "Political Threads in Legal Tapestry: A Computational Analysis of Executive Branch Legal Interpretation, 1934-2022"

How does the push & pull b/t law and politics shape the work of exec branch lawyers charged with providing "neutral" interpretations of the law? Find out in a new paper of mine just published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. Download: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Catch me at this year's Research Conference on the American Political Economy on 7/29 at 12 pm ET! I'll be on a roundtable called "Plutocracy" with @adambonica.bsky.social and @kagoss.bsky.social, moderated by @awhf.bsky.social. It's virtual, so you can attend from wherever. Sign-up link below.