#polisci — Public Fediverse posts

Thought experiment:
Imagine all the armchair experts on US domestic politics—including well meaning Europeans—actually knew the real convoluted rules of Congress, the Judiciary, and the Executive branch.

And for just a wee moment, let’s imagine voters and journalists knew civics too.

#momentofzen #SurroundedByIdiots #polisci

I just created a new blog, and to celebrate I'm doing something I've never done here, creating a proper introduction! I'm a 20 something American #trans woman who's currently researching #polisci and studying #cybersecurity.

I'm very passionate about #politics (I don't know exactly where I land, but somewhere on the far left lol). I've been trying to help build a strong local community where I'm at. Organization & community is one of the best defenses against fascism! As is direct action!

I also really love music, esspecially hiphop. My favorite artists right now are, in no particular order, #Doechii, #SZA, #KendrickLamar, #BillyWoods, #KaliUchis, and #LittleSimz.

https://pirategoddess.net/blog/introduction/

#introduction

I just created a new blog, and to celebrate I'm doing something I've never done here, creating a proper introduction! I'm a 20 something American #trans woman who's currently researching #polisci and studying #cybersecurity.

I'm very passionate about #politics (I don't know exactly where I land, but somewhere on the far left lol). I've been trying to help build a strong local community where I'm at. Organization & community is one of the best defenses against fascism! As is direct action!

I also really love music, esspecially hiphop. My favorite artists right now are, in no particular order, #Doechii, #SZA, #KendrickLamar, #BillyWoods, #KaliUchis, and #LittleSimz.

https://pirategoddess.net/blog/introduction/

#introduction

I just created a new blog, and to celebrate I'm doing something I've never done here, creating a proper introduction! I'm a 20 something American #trans woman who's currently researching #polisci and studying #cybersecurity.

I'm very passionate about #politics (I don't know exactly where I land, but somewhere on the far left lol). I've been trying to help build a strong local community where I'm at. Organization & community is one of the best defenses against fascism! As is direct action!

I also really love music, esspecially hiphop. My favorite artists right now are, in no particular order, #Doechii, #SZA, #KendrickLamar, #BillyWoods, #KaliUchis, and #LittleSimz.

https://pirategoddess.net/blog/introduction/

#introduction

I just created a new blog, and to celebrate I'm doing something I've never done here, creating a proper introduction! I'm a 20 something American #trans woman who's currently researching #polisci and studying #cybersecurity.

I'm very passionate about #politics (I don't know exactly where I land, but somewhere on the far left lol). I've been trying to help build a strong local community where I'm at. Organization & community is one of the best defenses against fascism! As is direct action!

I also really love music, esspecially hiphop. My favorite artists right now are, in no particular order, #Doechii, #SZA, #KendrickLamar, #BillyWoods, #KaliUchis, and #LittleSimz.

https://pirategoddess.net/blog/introduction/

#introduction

I just created a new blog, and to celebrate I'm doing something I've never done here, creating a proper introduction! I'm a 20 something American #trans woman who's currently researching #polisci and studying #cybersecurity.

I'm very passionate about #politics (I don't know exactly where I land, but somewhere on the far left lol). I've been trying to help build a strong local community where I'm at. Organization & community is one of the best defenses against fascism! As is direct action!

I also really love music, esspecially hiphop. My favorite artists right now are, in no particular order, #Doechii, #SZA, #KendrickLamar, #BillyWoods, #KaliUchis, and #LittleSimz.

https://pirategoddess.net/blog/introduction/

#introduction

Is democracy always about truth? Why we may need to loosen our views to heal our divisions. Via @sciencex.physorg #Civics #sociology #PoliSci

Is democracy always about trut...

"Well, I anticipated a lot of what would happen if Trump were reelected, but I did not anticipate the quick acquiescence of almost every American elite sector. The universities are part of a larger story. In many ways, it started with law firms — or you could say it started with the fact that we no longer have corporations so much as we have megalomaniacal multibillionaire tech bros who operate as individuals — sycophants trying to buy their way in. Musk is the most obvious, but they’re all that way right now. They’re inescapable because they control huge sectors of internet-enabled stuff that everybody needs. In some ways, Musk is the most vulnerable because of Tesla.

The universities are not an exemplary story of collective action, but they’re not as bad as the other elite institutions. I want to be careful here because I’m not sure we know how much informal coordination has been going on among university leaders. Obviously, there has not been a big public thing. That would be very difficult to do — there are so many colleges and universities, and even so many fairly important ones. They’re divided between the overly rich private universities and the major public universities and university systems. This is where Harvard was very important. I think Harvard, like everybody else, wanted to find a way to make a deal, because what nobody anticipated — and I think it’s fair to say that nobody did — was the attack on overhead and the attack on scientific research.

That, along with the attack on international students, could destroy these institutions. University administrators in our era are not profiles in courage. They are picked to go along to get along. They’re also picked for courting donors."

https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/23285/20740

#Sociology #PoliticalScience #PoliSci #USA #HigherEd #Universities #Trump

Prof. #DuaneBratt #PoliSci, #MountRoyalUniversity, discusses the deep significance of #DanielleSmith 's attacks on #JudgeColinFeasby over #Bill14 and the citizens' referendum initiative question separation. Smith is trying to transfer more and more power to HER office 🇨🇦 youtu.be/WoF6_BuO0lU?...

Danielle Smith the Authoritari...

Prof. #DuaneBratt #PoliSci, #MountRoyalUniversity, discusses the deep significance of #DanielleSmith 's attacks on #JudgeColinFeasby over #Bill14 and the citizens' referendum initiative question separation. Smith is trying to transfer more and more power to HER office 🇨🇦 youtu.be/WoF6_BuO0lU?...

Danielle Smith the Authoritari...

Prof. #DuaneBratt #PoliSci, #MountRoyalUniversity, discusses the deep significance of #DanielleSmith 's attacks on #JudgeColinFeasby over #Bill14 and the citizens' referendum initiative question separation. Smith is trying to transfer more and more power to HER office 🇨🇦 youtu.be/WoF6_BuO0lU?...

Danielle Smith the Authoritari...

Why democracies die and what to do next . Via @sciencemagazine #Civics ⚖️ #PoliSci #PoliticalScience 🗳️ #sociology

Why democracies die and what t...

Young people are less liberal and courageous than previously thought, Lithuanian study suggests. Via @sciencex.physorg #sociology #PoliSci #PoliticalScience

Young people are less liberal ...

For Plato, the difference between a deplorable tyrant and a worthy king is not a matter of the structure of governance — much less a matter of the centralization of power — but rather a matter of character. Both kings and tyrants exercise absolute control, but tyrants are beholden to their appetites, while kings obey the dictates of reason.
#Bookreview #philosophy #history #Plato #Republic #tyranny #PoliSci #politics #Greece
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/06/13/plato-tyrant-james-romm-review/

I'm keeping track of candidates in Waterloo Region and adding their contact and social media info as I find it. CBC is one of my sources.

If someone needs a #PoliSci research project, see which parties have the best communications channels, and correlate that with their political leanings...

https://poliblog.jonkman.ca/Poliblog-Elections/2025-Federal-Election/

#CanPoli #CDNpoli #CanadianElection2025 #WaterlooRegion #WRpoli

@uxmark

#EconSky #Sociology #PolicySky #PoliSci

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:btpccfd462r6g6br24m5iqmk/post/3lherm3r3is23

a man wearing sunglasses and a...

Really appreciating the cutting tone of this Chrisjen Avasarala-based character prompt I've been crafting for DeepSeek-R1. She doesn't mince words.

#DeepSeek #Avasarala #PoliSci #Realpolitik

#Introduction

French scholar, working and living in Prague.
My research focuses on party politics and social cleavages in the Arab world. I have mostly worked on Egypt (since my PhD) and more recently (2019) on Tunisia.

#PoliSci #PoliticalScience #MENA #PartyPolitics #Egypt #Tunisia
@politicalscience

#Introduction

French scholar, working and living in Prague.
My research focus on party politics and social cleavages in the Arab world. I have mostly worked on Egypt (since my PhD) and more recently (2019) on Tunisia.

#PoliSci #MENA #PartyPolitics #Egypt #Tunisia

“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

#philosophy #quote #QOTD #authoritarianism #totalitarianism #corporatism #fascism #communism #cowards #plutocracy #oligarchy #liberalism #democracy #PoliSci #resistance #enablers #occupation #history

"it is possible that a better-informed public would favor a foreign policy that was even more selfish, shortsighted, and immoral, especially if they believed that Chomsky and Robinson’s prescriptions would require them to make costly or painful adjustments."
#NoamChomsky #propaganda #ForeignAffairs #USpoli #PoliSci
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/15/chomsky-foreign-policy-book-review-american-idealism/

The U.S. Senate is really ready to be giving up all their power? Can we not rely on them to be a little greedy for their own power? Acquiescing to the President can make them just a rubber stamp, like the russian duma, and effectively powerless.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/gop-trump-republicans-senate-gaetz-rfk-scary.html

#senate #senators #confirmations #nominees #acquiescence #surrender #political #power #politics #USpol #government #governance #polisci

2/2 1/2 The vile and the corrupt.

"There was jokey bro racism: Tucker Carlson mocking the idea Harris could win legitimately by saying she would have to convince people “she got 85 million votes because she’s so impressive as the first Samoan-Malaysian, low I.Q., former California prosecutor ever to be elected president.”"
#Election2024 #racism #sexism #xenophobia #bigots #Trumpism #fascism #corruption #hate #PoliSci
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/i-watched-donald-trumps-supporters-walk-out-on-him-i-couldnt-have-been-more-wrong/article_584612d6-9623-11ef-9308-9fb639ece4ee.html

1/2 The vile and the corrupt.

"There was overt racism: Businessman Grant Cardone claimed Harris, a Black woman, had “pimp handlers.” There was casual racism: every speaker, to a person, made a point of mispronouncing Kamala Harris’s first name..."
#Election2024 #racism #sexism #xenophobia #bigots #Trumpism #fascism #corruption #hate #PoliSci
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/i-watched-donald-trumps-supporters-walk-out-on-him-i-couldnt-have-been-more-wrong/article_584612d6-9623-11ef-9308-9fb639ece4ee.html

“Wannabe fascism is an incomplete version of fascism,” Finchelstein argues, “characteristic of those who seek to destroy democracy for short-term personal gain but are not fully committed to the fascist cause.”
#Fascism #election2024 #PoliSci #collapse #authoritarianism #Trumpism #populism #India #Russia #Brazil #Argentina #Indonesia #Israel
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/08/15/american-descent-wannabe-fascists-america-last/

2/2 "...Or, as Arendt might have put it, we must share the world in common. Feelings like abandonment, fear, anxiety, shame, and love make us vulnerable to one another as human beings, and politicians find ways to exploit these vulnerabilities to their advantage."
#totalitarianism #authoritarianism #fascism #loneliness #psychology #philosophy #polisci #radicalism #extremism
https://samantharosehill.substack.com/p/20-tuesdays-738

1/2 "We all have a need for belonging. A lot of contemporary scientific research into loneliness treats the feeling of loneliness as warning bell that goes off internally when one doesn’t have strong social connections with others. We must co-exist with one another in order to survive and evolve...
#totalitarianism #authoritarianism #fascism #loneliness #psychology #philosophy #polisci #radicalism #extremism
https://samantharosehill.substack.com/p/20-tuesdays-738

At such moments, he said, people’s frustrations inevitably reach a boiling point. “So they start electing a different government, a more populist message, because they know that their lives are getting harder and their government is not working for them.”
#USpoli #corruption #Nebraska #populism #PoliSci #Senate #corporatism #monopoly #regulations
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/opinion/nebraska-senate-dan-osborn.html

how policing impacts the homeless #homelessness #StreetPeople #SocialScience #PoliSci #BadCopNoDonut https://phys.org/news/2024-08-policing-impacts-homeless.html

#Chomsky wasn't right about everything, but he did something others refused to do: think about power and politics, without reverting to institutional lies. 20 y/a, every international airport would have his books. Nothing today. It is up to each of us to continue the struggle against corporatism.
#NoamChomsky #dissident #PoliSci #linguistics #neoliberalism #militarism #terrorism #history #ForeignAffairs #Palestine

"Noticing who isn't in the room is the first step. Next you can ask, What would it take to change this?" --Anna Zivarts, author of When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency.

https://islandpress.org/books/when-driving-not-option#desc

#transportation #planning #UrbanPlanning #Urbanists #PublicPolicy #PublicHealth #PoliSci #sociology #disability #accessibility #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice #EBikes #transit #micromobility #BikeTooter #inclusion #equity #CarCulture #nondrivers #WeekWithoutDriving

I'm DEVOURING Anna Zivarts' book When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency.
People teaching public policy, transportation planning, public health, social work, sociology, political science, on and on--please assign this book in your classes! + buy copies to give school board, city council, other decision makers.
https://islandpress.org/books/when-driving-not-option#desc
#transportation #planning #PublicPolicy #PublicHealth #PoliSci #sociology #disability #accessibility #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice

Cats understand late stage capitalism better than us...

Honestly "user generated content" is kinda fabulous sometimes even if the apps are a nightmare.

#cats #video #LateStageCapitalism #economics #capitalism #polisci #politicalEconomics #memes #funny #notFunny #animals #enshitification #CatsOfMastodon

"Good Luck Everyone"

I’ve updated my free-to-access #propaganda and #disinformation bibliography! Do check it out here and support my work. Thank you! https://www.patreon.com/posts/78981573?utm_campaign=postshare_creator #commodon @potemkinvillage #polcom #polisci #politics #patreon #reading #polcomm

Chatting with someone who disagreed about #immigration or #gunControl slightly reduced #polarization, but only for members of one of the two major U.S. political parties.

Chat-induced #depolarization was 0.38 standard deviations among the 704 #Republicans (p = 0.007), but just 0.09 standard deviations for the 715 #Democrats (p = 0.48).

Find more in the Nature Human Behavior article: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01655-0

#politics #socialMedia #UX #publicDiscourse #psychology #PoliSci #PoliPsych #CogSci

Chatting with someone who disagreed about #immigration or #gunControl slightly reduced #polarization, but only for members of one of the two major U.S. political parties.

Chat-induced #depolarization was 0.38 standard deviations among the 704 #Republicans (p = 0.007), but just 0.09 standard deviations for the 715 #Democrats (p = 0.48).

Find more in the Nature Human Behavior article: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01655-0

#politics #socialMedia #UX #publicDiscourse #psychology #PoliSci #PoliPsych #CogSci

Chatting with someone who disagreed about #immigration or #gunControl slightly reduced #polarization, but only for members of one of the two major U.S. political parties.

Chat-induced #depolarization was 0.38 standard deviations among the 704 #Republicans (p = 0.007), but just 0.09 standard deviations for the 715 #Democrats (p = 0.48).

Find more in the Nature Human Behavior article: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01655-0

#politics #socialMedia #UX #publicDiscourse #psychology #PoliSci #PoliPsych #CogSci

Chatting with someone who disagreed about #immigration or #gunControl slightly reduced #polarization, but only for members of one of the two major U.S. political parties.

Chat-induced #depolarization was 0.38 standard deviations among the 704 #Republicans (p = 0.007), but just 0.09 standard deviations for the 715 #Democrats (p = 0.48).

Find more in the Nature Human Behavior article: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01655-0

#politics #socialMedia #UX #publicDiscourse #psychology #PoliSci #PoliPsych #CogSci

Chatting with someone who disagreed about #immigration or #gunControl slightly reduced #polarization, but only for members of one of the two major U.S. political parties.

Chat-induced #depolarization was 0.38 standard deviations among the 704 #Republicans (p = 0.007), but just 0.09 standard deviations for the 715 #Democrats (p = 0.48).

Find more in the Nature Human Behavior article: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01655-0

#politics #socialMedia #UX #publicDiscourse #psychology #PoliSci #PoliPsych #CogSci

#Civicbase brings upvoting and downvoting to preference measurement—but with a budget.

Participants can select or agree or disagree buttons (up to 7 times) to allocate a limited voting credits (that carry over to future studies?).

May reveal priorities that Likert scales and ranked-choices cannot.

https://doi.org/10.1002/aaai.12103

Presumably, this could be used for all sorts of preferences (beyond civics/politics).

#measurement #PsychMethods #openSource #decisionScience #poliSci #cogSci #gamification

The program of the Political Theory Seminars at the University of Copenhagen for the Fall 2023 is out 🙌

With Svenja Ahlhaus (@svenjaahlhaus) Keith Breen and Antoinette Scherz

More information and registration: https://politicalscience.ku.dk/research/groups/political-theory/events/

#PoliticalTheory #Polisci #Democracy #ClimateCrisis #Litigation #StrategicLitigation #Republicanism #Copenhagen #KU #Koebenhavn #Denmark #UniversityOfCopenhagen #UCPH
@politicalscience @democraticinnovations

The program of the Political Theory Seminars at the University of Copenhagen for the Fall 2023 is out 🙌

With Svenja Ahlhaus (@svenjaahlhaus) Keith Breen and Antoinette Scherz

More information and registration: https://politicalscience.ku.dk/research/groups/political-theory/events/

#PoliticalTheory #Polisci #Democracy #ClimateCrisis #Litigation #StrategicLitigation #Republicanism #Copenhagen #KU #Koebenhavn #Denmark #UniversityOfCopenhagen #UCPH
@politicalscience @democraticinnovations

The program of the Political Theory Seminars at the University of Copenhagen for the Fall 2023 is out 🙌

With Svenja Ahlhaus (@svenjaahlhaus) Keith Breen and Antoinette Scherz

More information and registration: https://politicalscience.ku.dk/research/groups/political-theory/events/

#PoliticalTheory #Polisci #Democracy #ClimateCrisis #Litigation #StrategicLitigation #Republicanism #Copenhagen #KU #Koebenhavn #Denmark #UniversityOfCopenhagen #UCPH
@politicalscience @democraticinnovations

The program of the Political Theory Seminars at the University of Copenhagen for the Fall 2023 is out 🙌

With Svenja Ahlhaus (@svenjaahlhaus) Keith Breen and Antoinette Scherz

More information and registration: https://politicalscience.ku.dk/research/groups/political-theory/events/

#PoliticalTheory #Polisci #Democracy #ClimateCrisis #Litigation #StrategicLitigation #Republicanism #Copenhagen #KU #Koebenhavn #Denmark #UniversityOfCopenhagen #UCPH
@politicalscience @democraticinnovations

The program of the Political Theory Seminars at the University of Copenhagen for the Fall 2023 is out 🙌

With Svenja Ahlhaus (@svenjaahlhaus) Keith Breen and Antoinette Scherz

More information and registration: https://politicalscience.ku.dk/research/groups/political-theory/events/

#PoliticalTheory #Polisci #Democracy #ClimateCrisis #Litigation #StrategicLitigation #Republicanism #Copenhagen #KU #Koebenhavn #Denmark #UniversityOfCopenhagen #UCPH
@politicalscience @democraticinnovations

American Political Science
Association (@APSATweets) explains why strikes are bad, asks members to cross picket line for conference https://politicalsciencenow.com/update-on-2023-apsa-annual-meeting-exhibition/
#unitehere #labor #polisci #APSA

Since there is a new #PoliticalPsychology group, I share my latest article, which may be of interest, as a group post. #Polisci and #psychology researchers should check the new group if they are interested in political psychology: @politicalpsychology

Here is the link to the article entitled 'The Role of #Dehumanization in Legitimation and Delegitimation of State Violence in #Colombia', published in Culture & Psychology: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1354067X231164795

How has social science qualitative research changed in the past ten years? What does qualitative research do differently today?

@politicalscience

#polisci #socsci

My first paper has been published. Together with Carmen Walenta-Bergmann (birdsite: @CarmenWB), we looked into the congruence of different social policy issues between parties and voters. We developed a congruence measurement and found that the congruence in Austria actually increases and that family policy follows a different path than other social policies.

https://www.oezp.at/index.php/OEZP/article/view/4016

#polisci #socialpolicy #voters #parties #salience #Austria

Recently updated: Emma L Briant’s #Propaganda Glossary and Definitions https://www.patreon.com/posts/80247109?utm_campaign=postshare_creator #patreon #disinformation #influence #polisci #polcom