Jeff Jenkins
@jaj7d
Provost Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Law @USC. Director @PIPECollab. Editor: @JPIPE_journal @JHPE_journal @BlogBroadstreet. #FirstGen
NEW STUDY: Staff hiring over 1996-2024 shows the diploma divide is in the White House. Elite universities sent far more alumni to work for Democratic presidents. Full paper: myumi.ch/pVMM5 Details: Democratic presidents tend to value more credentials... 1/6
Ranking colleges and universities by White House alumni, 1996-2024: Privates: 1. @Yale 2. @Georgetown 3. @Harvard 4. @CatholicUniv 5. @GWAdmissions Publics: 1. @UVA 2. @UTAustin 3. @UNC 4. @UMich 5. @UofMaryland
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).
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: 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…
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: 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: 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: 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…
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:
'Night science' is what you do when you're not sure what's the question.