PIPE Collaborative
@PIPECollab
The Political Institutions and Political Economy (PIPE) Collaborative brings togther scholars at USC and beyond to explore important PIPE-related questions.
Coming soon: @JHPE_journal 5(2). Articles by @Dan_S_smith and @t_r_gray, @JanneTukiainen & coauthors, Mirya Holman & coauthors, Jonathan Doucette, Jorgen Moller.
Some good news: Scott Adler, Chuck Shipan, and I have signed a contract to publish the Third Edition (and many more editions!) of our textbook, The United States Congress, with Cambridge University Press (@CUP_PoliSci).
Organizations with a public purpose can recruit talented workers in part by offering ideological fulfillment. However, this can limit their flexibility to respond to changes in their external environment.
What I find puzzling and interesting about NPR is the same thing, in miniature, that I find puzzling about liberalism in many contexts: the utter inability to impose limits on itself, even when the failure to do so is obviously self-destructive. If NPR had even pursued its…
Deadline TODAY.
RFP: The Political Economy of Insurance (deadline July 14) Special issue of @JPIPE_journal. Conference at the @USCPrice on December 9. Details below:
New in @JPIPE_journal: John Matsusaka develops a measure of direct democracy backsliding, collects the data to calculate it over the last 70 years, and documents several trends and patterns. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…
New in @JPIPE_journal: Nicole Baerg, @DominikDuell & Will Lowe examine how support for the European Central Bank (ECB) and the central bank’s communication style affects a respondent’s inflation expectations. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…
New in @JPIPE_journal: George Krause & @jsnbyers propose a theory of selective committee delay that predicts that ideologically-vulnerable Senate committees constitute a primary source of confirmation delay. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…
New in @JPIPE_journal: @NicholasNapolio scales executive agencies along a liberal–conservative dimension using ChatGPT, a large language model, to produce both static measures of executive agency ideology and dynamic measures spanning 1949–2020. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…
New in @JPIPE_journal: Afiq bin Oslan & İpek Ece Şener, using a simple formal model, argue that new, independent media sources may actually be a boon for vulnerable leaders. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…
Deadline tomorrow (Monday)!
RFP: The Political Economy of Insurance (deadline July 14) Special issue of @JPIPE_journal. Conference at the @USCPrice on December 9. Details below:
Deadline on Monday!
RFP: The Political Economy of Insurance (deadline July 14) Special issue of @JPIPE_journal. @PIPECollab Conference at @USCPrice on December 9. Details below:
Really fun to have presented my work at this year’s NBER - Development of the American Economy Summer Institute. Some really smart economists doing US-specific HPE research!
Deadline in a week!
RFP: The Political Economy of Insurance (deadline July 14) Special issue of @JPIPE_journal. @PIPECollab Conference at @USCPrice on December 9. Details below:
RFP: The Political Economy of Insurance (deadline July 14) Special issue of @JPIPE_journal. @PIPECollab Conference at @USCPrice on December 9. Details below:

RFP: The Political Economy of Insurance (deadline July 14) Special issue of @JPIPE_journal. Conference at the @USCPrice on December 9. Details below: