Lucia Lopez

For those interested in measuring political violence, check out Lily and Nathan's new review paper below. See also my forthcoming paper at POQ (w/ @llopez.bsky.social and Lucas Lothamer) introducing our own measure scottaclifford.com/wp-content/u...

Dear ANES community, the link below introduces our new Board of Advisors, led by Jamie Druckman. Jamie follows John Aldrich, who deftly chaired the Board for nearly 2 decades. This new group will guide us through the 2028 election cycle. Our deepest thanks to outgoing and incoming Board members!

Your friends at the ANES would appreciate your proposals for new content that we will pilot immediately after the 2026 midterm elections. Please see the announcement at the following link and submit your ideas! electionstudies.org/anes-announc...

Acquiescence Bias and Criterion Validity: Problems and Potential Solutions for Agree-Disagree Scales - Political Behavior Political Behavior - Scholars frequently measure dispositions like populism, conspiracism, racism, and sexism by asking survey respondents whether they agree or disagree with statements...

New w/@scottclifford.bsky.social.

Lots of work uses agree-disagree scales, and a lit review shows these are 1) frequently just measured in one direction (agree = higher trait) and 2) correlated with each other.

This has potentially big issues for conclusions.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

a graph showing JEPS has less selection on significance than other journals

When we look across journals, we see the same patterns repeated. The main exception is the Journal of Experimental Political Science, which has the highest rate of null-only reporting and lowest rate of rejection-only reporting. Kudos to them.

JOIN us for this year’s Rebecca Morton conference on experimental political science at NYU! March 6-7. We have a great line up of papers and posters!

Program (scroll down) here: wp.nyu.edu/cesspolitica...

Register (no fee) here: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Law and Courts Women's Writing Group Writing groups for the Spring 2026 semester

Spring Law and Courts Women's Writing Groups are a go!

Link to sign up is below, due date for signing up is 1/30. Come join us! Good work across the law and courts subfield gets done here!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Meet Rachael Houston, Marcy Shieh, and Christine C. Bird, 2025 Advancing Research Grants for Early Career Scholars Recipients - Project Title: Whose Briefs Count? Mapping Regional Influence in Healthcare Cases Before the Supreme Court Rachael Houston, Texas Christian University Rachael Houston is an assistant professor of political science at Texas Christian University. Her research [...]

Dream team strikes again! Congrats to @rachaelhouston.bsky.social, @christinecbird.bsky.social, and Marcy Shieh for being the 2025 Advancing Research Grants for Early Career Scholars Recipients politicalsciencenow.com/meet-rachael...

Polling Simulator - How do polls work? Explore how random error and methodological choices shape the results of political polls.

I built this for fun. Not really sure what to do with it. Maybe it will be useful to people trying to understand polling. Might even be a decent teaching example. (Feedback welcome. I am not a web designer, please be kind.)

poll-simulator.netlify.app

Correct link here dynamicdemocracy.us

BJPolS abstract discussing the impact of public support on judicial institutions and interbranch conflicts.

From October 2025 -

Trust in the Judiciary and Partisan Reactions to Judicial Checks: Evidence from Argentina - https://cup.org/42BRe1j "judicial checks expose citizens to information that is primarily instrumental"

- Martín Gandur

#OpenAccess

Ambition and Conflict in State Legislatures | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

Congratulations to Michael Kistner (@mkistner.bsky.social) on the forthcoming publication of his new article “Ambition and Conflict in State Legislatures” in the Journal of Politics (@thejop.bsky.social).

Read the article here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Magical Practices and the Recruitment of Women into Rebel Groups Abstracts. Magical practices play a central role in the indoctrination and socialization processes of many rebel organizations. Qualitative scholarship has

In a new article @isq-jrnl.bsky.social, Nazli Avdan, Shelby Davis (an excellent Ph.D. student @houstonpolsci.bsky.social), and I examine the role that women play as practitioners of magic in African rebel organizations.

doi.org/10.1093/isq/...

Workshop on administrative burdens in the Americas, October 28-30, 2026 in Mexico City. With @fnietomorales.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social @thepeoplelab.bsky.social @elizabethlinos.bsky.social, Bloomberg Center, Colegio de México & CIDE. Support for travel costs available. CfP tinyurl.com/k2xz28fr

I’ll be speaking today at noon eastern about some of my research on trauma and democracy on the “Extreme Weather, Natural Disasters, and Elections” speaker series through the Houston Institute at Harvard Law School

Register here if you want to join the convo:

harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Doctoral students! We now offer grants under our Dissertation Research Grants program.

Meet Anwuli Okwuashi (St. Louis University), a 2025 DRG grantee! She will examine how limited access to banks widens racial homeownership gaps.

#APPAM25 #APPAM2025

www.russellsage.org/apply/grants...

Excited to see our article out now!

ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/...

The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.

ABF Access to Justice Research Initiative Early-Career Workshop at American Bar Foundation ABF Access to Justice Research Initiative Early-Career Workshop Deadline: Monday, November 24, 2025 About the ABF Access to Justice Research Initiative The American Bar Foundation’s Access to Justice ...

🚨If you are an early-career scholar who researches civil justice topics -- please consider applying to join our next cohort! Participants join an awesome community of A2J scholars (& receive a research stipend!).

Applications due November 24 (bit.ly/abfecw)
@abfresearch.bsky.social

IMPORTANT EXTENSION!

The SPSA Neal Tate Best Paper Committee is extending the deadline to Nov 3, 5:00 pm EST.

The 2026 Neal Award is given to the author(s) of the Best Paper on Judicial Politics presented at the 2025 SPSA Annual Meeting.

Email papers to spsa.finance@spsa.net.

Logo of JREP with the hashtag OpenAccess, displayed on a grey background dotted with red circles.

#OpenAccess from the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics -

Many of Us Are Not Like the Others: Country of Origin and Latino Voting Behavior in the United States - https://cup.org/3WSTCxe

- Francesco Bromo, Lindsey P. González, @manuelamunoz.bsky.social & Kristy M. Pathakis

#FirstView #JREP10

👏🏻 ‼️ "We don’t train young scholars to fail well. [...] rarely do we discuss how to handle the inevitable: the harsh review, the desk rejection, the grant proposal that doesn’t get funded."

How Strong Policy Attitudes Activate Support for Aggressive Political Action - Political Behavior There is a long history of political violence in the United States. Scholars have documented numerous dispositions that predict support for violence as a political tactic, finding that a general tendency toward aggression is consistently among the strongest predictors. Yet, we know much less about how political attitudes might activate aggressive personalities and direct them toward specific targets. In this paper, we examine how policy attitudes interact with dispositional aggression to motivate support for political violence. Across two studies, using novel measures and within-subjects designs, we show that intense policy opposition strongly predicts support for aggressive political tactics against politicians responsible for the legislation – primarily among those who are dispositionally prone to aggression. Surprisingly, the strength of partisan identity plays little role in explaining support for political aggression. Our findings suggest that policy attitudes are a crucial factor for understanding when aggressive individuals might turn to political violence.

When do strong attitudes turn dangerous?
Clifford & Lothamer show that intense policy opposition, not partisanship, channels aggressive personalities toward supporting political violence. #AmericanPolitics
Read more:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Timely research from Prof. Ollerenshaw. Read about it here!

PS Jobs - Status Updates This is a listing of job market updates. You can submit updates here.

Just want to thank folks contributing to the #psjminfo job status update section of the site. It's a small thing, but I know people appreciate knowing the status of jobs.

www.politicalsciencejobs.org/status-updates

🌊🦈 WE'RE BACK!!! 🌊🦈

Update your calendars bc JAWS is back for Fall 2025 📅 And our first session is next week, Wed 10/1!

Also: NEW TIME! We've heard our old time was difficult for those with school pickups, so our new time is 1-2:30PM ET / 10-11:30AM PT 💫

More info below ⬇️

Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor - Comparative Politics - Houston, Texas, United States Department: Political Science Salary: Commensurate with experience Description: The Department of Political Science at the University of Houston invites applications for an Assistant, Associate, ...

@houstonpolsci.bsky.social is hiring in Comparative Politics (open rank). Check out the link below for more details and to apply.
careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...
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"Public Perceptions of Corporate Position-Taking on Abortion and Transgender Rights" by Wayde Z. C. Marsh and Jordan Carr Peterson. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🔎 Job Market Spotlight: Meet Lucia Lopez, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Houston and licensed attorney. Her research explores access to justice, legitimacy of state legal institutions and social policy. Learn more: www.lucia-lopez.com