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Professor of Political Science & DGS @GWtweets. Run @authwarning. Study democratization, autocracy, and democratic survival. Author of Shock to the System.

Washington, DC
Joined July 2020
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After 8 years, it's finally done. I'm thrilled to announce my book, Shock to the System: Coups, Elections, and War on the Road to Democratization, is coming out at @PrincetonUPress. I promise it will make you think about democratization in a new way. /1 press.princeton.edu/books/pa…
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new piece in Foreign Affairs with @schneierblog on how autocrats are using AI to deal with scheming viziers. free access foreignaffairs.com/guest-pas…
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My god, another false account of the Princeton English curriculum! This time it misleads the dept isn't teaching Shakespeare (when there's a class on S) & claims you can go through the major w/o "the classics" when it has broad distributional rules requiring exactly this /1
"WVU business professor Craig Warmke got some attention by calling out the Princeton English major course offerings...The problem with the Princeton syllabus is not the individual courses. Fine, study socialism and Sondheim! The problem is the overall balance." @craigwarmke
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We're hiring in Comparative Politics here at GW (@GWtweets)! Come join our fantastic department, and plug your research directly into DC’s policy community Work on all regions welcome I'm on the committee and happy to answer any questions gwu.jobs/postings/128521
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After a deep dive, I found some major methodological fishiness w/ this study. I can't label it fraud w/o access to the replication data, but at minimum there is clear evidence of p-hacking & unacknowledged preregistration deviations. @SwipeWright @PsychRabble /1
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After a deep dive, I found some major methodological fishiness w/ this study. I can't label it fraud w/o access to the replication data, but at minimum there is clear evidence of p-hacking & unacknowledged preregistration deviations. @SwipeWright @PsychRabble /1
A landmark HHS-commissioned report reveals a correlation between strong support for gender ideology and support for left-wing authoritarianism. Regardless of political background, such individuals are more likely to endorse: ➡️Violence against political figures ➡️Violent resistance to law enforcement ➡️Use of violence as a legitimate political tool
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but the paper doesn't have these separate indices & nothing on ideology specifically. The regression analyses in the analysis plan are not followed faithfully. The only-.01 significance threshold is not followed in the paper, and so on. /6
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To reiterate, I'm not claiming fraud. I'm claiming it looks like a selective choice of measures after seeing the data. Since this is a work in progress, the authors should show the relationships across the full set of measured variables & all prereg'd tests. /end
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This is incredible dishonesty by @SwipeWright here. He's taking individual op-eds, coverage of what some scientists are doing, & a book review (!) & falsely attributing the views to Nature itself. Only two of these cases are Nature editorials & neither match his claims. /1
Seeing lots of surprised reactions to the absurd Nature editorial on Jason Arday. Frankly, I'm surprised people are surprised. Nature has been totally captured by wokeness for a while now. I've been trying to call attention to this for nearly a decade. There are no serious scholars left there in influential positions capable of rescuing it. The people in charge of Nature today are brazenly hostile to the foundational principles that made Nature a highly respected and trustworthy institution in the first place. Today, activists have hijacked it and are using the prestige associated with the Nature brand to push an ideological agenda. They don't care that they're quickly burning through the immense trust that was slowly and painstakingly built by generations of competent scholars and stewardship. They're willing to burn through it all in a decade for power. It's an absolute tragedy. Nature has gone all-in on decoloniality, which holds that academic rigor and scientific objectivity are forms of colonial oppression rooted in white supremacy. It seeks to elevate Indigenous "ways of knowing," which amount to tribal myths and forms of religious mysticism, as an equally valid system of producing knowledge. And they don't want this absurd notion to remain theoretical; they want to implement these principles in areas that deal with life and death—medicine and nursing. I know what I'm saying sounds absurd. People can't possibly believe that. Like, I must be exaggerating, right? I promise you that I'm not. If anything, I'm dramatically understating the problem. We are in the midst of a total academic crisis, and we need to stop acting surprised and start taking action to delegitimize these journals and root these fields out of our public and publicly-funded institutions. If we don't, it's only going to get worse.
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Consider that if a venue is committed to academic freedom & debate, then sometimes it will feature opinions that @SwipeWright disagrees with. That does not translate to a rejection of science or the other hysterical claims made. /2
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Just today, they published an article arguing for a genetic basis of personality traits, definitely not a woke inclination. Wright's flim-flam is little more than rage bait & grievance merchanting, not a call for rigor. /end nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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I don't think this VP trick is constitutional. The 12th Amendment says if you're not eligible for Pres, you're not eligible for VP (clearly talking about elections). But if GOP controls the House after 2028, they could elect Trump Speaker, then have Pres + VP resign.
Trump and his cronies have openly mused about "workarounds" to a third term. Jeffrey Rosen: The literal text would allow the president to run as someone else's vice president, get elected, then have the president resign, and then he could take the office by succession rather than election.
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Trump: "A lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator."
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I don’t always stay up to date (hey, I retired in 2020), but sometimes when I catch up, I’m amazed at what I read. This book is an absolute tour de force! @mkmdem is correct here: the book has made me think of democratization in a new way.
After 8 years, it's finally done. I'm thrilled to announce my book, Shock to the System: Coups, Elections, and War on the Road to Democratization, is coming out at @PrincetonUPress. I promise it will make you think about democratization in a new way. /1 press.princeton.edu/books/pa…
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Most people seem to be missing the immediate point of Trump's exec order on birthright citizenship, which is to enable the deportation of everyone in an immigrant family *including children* & to ignore citizenship claims. If courts act, it will be w/ delay & it's already done.
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." Written right there in the Constitution. The President cannot change that with the stroke of a pen.
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Ok, now do the Party's presidential nominee.
Republicans: If you don't know who "Amber Rose" is (I didn't) you can go to her X feed (warning: actually its an XXX feed) and see the filth she spews--all for money, of course. What she represents is antithetical to the values and virtues the Party claims to stand for--and should stand for. Yesterday she was a featured speaker at the Republican convention--a convention that opened in prayer and invokes the name of almighty God constantly. This is someone who posted a pornographic shot of herself as recently as two weeks ago. Are you going to pass over this outrage--this hypocrisy--in silence? Don't you see what is being done to the Party? Has no one any shame? "It profiteth a man [or a party] nothing to give his soul for the entire world."
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