Politics of Public Policy Spring 2026 Kim.pdf
My draft syllabus on the politics of public policy now includes in class activities, as well as assignments focused on implementation and political analysis. I’ll keep refining it as the semester approaches in January.
All questions, comments, or feedback are welcome.
05.12.2025 05:09 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
if we keep forcing people to weasel out & say "x is associated with y" rather than "x causes y," we don't really police identification but 1) foster boring writing (a serious offense), and 2) let people be ambiguous about x and y, rather than being clear about why and how x affects y.
02.12.2025 19:33 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
I'm seeing a trend in our students at UBC as well. STEM students, but particularly CS students, looking to the humanities to provide more depth and meaning to their studies. Lean in and stay strong, humanities. Your time is here!
23.11.2025 19:46 — 👍 38 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
University of California, Riverside is hiring:
Assistant Professor of Teaching in Sociology
22.11.2025 14:47 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Seeing your actual article in print never gets old. I’m excited that after almost eight years, my paper with Emanuel Guay, “Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Political Mobilization and Policy Reform in Québec,” is now out in Volume 96 of Labour/Le Travail. 🧵 1/
17.11.2025 22:38 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
When to Use Counterfactuals in Causal Historiography: Methods for Semantics and Inference According to the interventionist framework of actual causality, causal claims in history are ultimately claims about special types of functional dependencies between variables, which consist
#sociology link
15.11.2025 08:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Sunmin Kim with text that reads, “Sunmin Kim, Assistant Professor of Sociology. Russell Sage Foundation’s Presidential-Authority Grant”
Congratulations to sociology professor Sunmin Kim on receiving a Presidential-Authority Grant from the Russell Sage Foundation for his research on the role of social science in the racialization of Japanese Americans in WWII camps. bit.ly/4p1Bai0
13.11.2025 22:01 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Information, Culture & Society - School of Information Science
Duties & Responsibilities
Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +
06.11.2025 16:58 — 👍 100 🔁 71 💬 4 📌 8
Mokyr's work could not have been done today in most economics departments, but the irony is that his work would not fit in history departments today, either. Methodologically he seems more 'history' than 'economics' to economists, but the content and reasoning are too 'economics' for most historians
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Description
Job Summary:
The Interdisciplinary Program in Organizational Studies in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan seeks applicants for a full time Lecturer III position to begin August 25, 2026. Organizational Studies is a small but growing selective undergraduate major in the arts and sciences. This is a non-tenure track position with a university year appointment. The initial appointment period will be four (4) years, and the appointment may be renewed (based on programmatic need, funding, and performance). The appointment is subject to final approval by the college.
Responsibilities:
Duties and responsibilities for this Lecturer III position are expected to include four (4) undergraduate courses per year, including both lectures and seminars, as well as departmental service, including undergraduate advising and mentoring equivalent to a third class per semester, and service on appropriate committees. Candidates may also contribute to our core class rotation (micro-organizational behavior, macro-organizational theory, and research methods), depending on program needs and candidate background. A typical full-time (100% effort) load for a Lecturer III in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts is three courses per semester, or the equivalent in administrative and/or service duties.
Qualifications
Qualifications:
Qualified candidates will have a Ph.D. in a relevant social/behavioral science or professional discipline prior to the start date of the position and a range of instructional expertise. Candidates must be able to teach lower- and upper-level classes relevant to the study of organizations that are grounded in social/behavioral science and appeal to students looking to develop practical, transferable skills. Candidates must also be capable of teaching at least one and preferably two of our core classes (micro-organizational behavior, macro-organizational theory, and research methods). We espec…
Organizational Studies at UMich is hiring a full-time lecturer. We're a small but growing program with amazing students at a wonderful university. If this ad sounds like you, please apply. apply.interfolio.com/174964
10.10.2025 17:33 — 👍 15 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
CDCS Colloquium: Yena Lee
Creator Logic-in-Practice: Political Content Creators and the Negotiation of Influence in the Post-Networked Era
Excited to kick off my postdoc @cdcspenn.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu with a colloquium on Monday, September 29th ✨
I’ll be sharing from my dissertation-to-book project titled, "Creator Logic-in-Practice: Political Content Creators and the Negotiation of Influence in the Post-Networked Era."
23.09.2025 23:45 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds
Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings
Interesting article/paper.
I'm much less anti-AI than a lot of people on my feed. But pretty skeptical it can simulate human behavior effectively for social scientific purposes -- at least in cases where variation among humans, rather than acting like an average human, is what's important.
04.10.2025 11:23 — 👍 36 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 3
job
TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN HEALTH AND THE LIFE COURSE OR WORK AND THE ECONOMY
Department of Sociology, Western University
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@westernu.ca #cdnsoci
01.10.2025 15:24 — 👍 5 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
How America’s elite colleges breed high-status careers—and misery
“They funneled the shit out of me.”
The “career funnel,” a phrase coined by sociologists Amy Binder and Daniel Davis, describes the mechanism behind the crowding of elite college graduates into finance, tech, or management consulting.
Says one Stanford alum of how he ended up as a consultant: “They funneled the shit out of me.”
25.09.2025 14:19 — 👍 27 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 3
The Question of Manipulability
I believe that this is a long-overdue correction for a reason. Much of the literature on polarization has operated under a tacit assumption: that political attitudes are malleable.
If you frame an issue one way, you can shift people’s support for particular candidates. If you “humanize” out-partisans, animosity declines. If you push people into a room and make them discuss a question for 15 minutes, you see that ideology is more moderate than it would be1. The implicit theory of political culture operating here is that people’s ideologies are weak, malleable, and ready to be channeled into something “good” if only we have the “right” intervention.
1 That is, they are more likely to be 2, 3, or 4 in a Likert scale than being 1 or 5 on a 5-point scale.
I believe that the experimental paradigm in "polarization research" should receive strong criticism for its thin conception of political culture. I make this argument in a new blog post.
Experiments Can’t Reduce Partisan Animosity
tkeskinturk.github.io/blog/experiments
24.09.2025 21:26 — 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Quantitative social scientists interested in climate political economy: check out this awesome postdoc opportunity!
18.09.2025 13:37 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Events | Center on Global Poverty
Welcome back to a new academic year, and a new international development landscape. This year the Center on Global Poverty will be hosting a virtual and in-person series of talks on "The Future of For...
Join us this Friday, September 19, at 3 PM ET for the first event in our year-long series, "The Future of Foreign Aid." We'll be joined by George Ingram from the Brookings Institution for a talk on "Aid in an Era of Disruption." sites.krieger.jhu.edu/cgp/events/ #ProblemSolvingSociology
17.09.2025 04:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
TWO new Assistant Professor positions in Sociology at USC! Seeking candidates with expertise in the following: 1) Institutions & Inequalities and 2) Socially Informed AI and/or Data Science (links to job ads below👇). Happy to talk about what it's like to work/live here! #sociology (1/3)
08.09.2025 14:39 — 👍 39 🔁 42 💬 2 📌 4
Canadian in Hong Kong.
Work: digital historian @ HKU.
Research: medieval Korea, Neo-Confucianism, historical networks, data centres, infrastructure studies, and historical applications of AI.
Team: Big Data Studies Lab https://bigdatastudies.net/
Assistant Research Professor at Cornell University
Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society
Affiliations with Departments of Information Science, Sociology, and Computer Science
Our mission is to advance sociological theory through the exchange of ideas, research, and teaching experiences.
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Sociologist in Korea Univ. M.A. Student (2025-present) B.A. Sociology & B.S. Computer Science. NLP as my Methodology
adacce98@korea.ac.kr
soci.yunseok.jeong@gmail.com
github.com/socijeongyunseok
Editor of the journal Critical Sociology, and the two book series at Brill: Studies in Critical Social Sciences and New Scholarship in Political Economy
A business analyst at heart who enjoys delving into AI, ML, data engineering, data science, data analytics, and modeling. My views are my own.
You can also find me at threads: @sung.kim.mw
Too economist to be a historian. Too historian to be an economist.
More coffee, please.
Postdoctoral fellow @AnnenbergPenn CDCS researching political creators & social movement | PhD in @NorthwesternU MTS | she/they
https://yenaleephd.com/
Assistant Professor of Sociology @McMaster University | Media, power, and computational social science.
Sociologist. University of Stavanger. Class relations, stigmatisation, interactionism, Goffman
A collaborative research community at @princeton.edu that advances computational and data-intensive humanities scholarship to create a more just future. #HumanitiesforAI
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Sociology @Ucalgary, morals emotions affect technology — head of department, still love teaching. arielducey.com/pubs/
The Institute for Policy Research is a nonpartisan, interdisciplinary social science research institute at Northwestern. We conduct research to improve lives. www.ipr@northwestern.edu
Network bringing together researchers from across the social sciences who explore the combination of feminist research & quantitative data/methods. Run by: Jenny Chanfreau, Youngcho Lee, Christina Pao, Heini Väisänen & Nadine Zwiener-Collins.
Postdoc @Bard College Berlin
Economic development, global value chains, industrial policy, automotive, semiconductors
http://www.tobiaswuttke.com
Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard, studying place and political identity in the U.S. Check out my book! How the Heartland Went Red https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691249704/how-the-heartland-went-red
