⚖️Arunachalam & Watson suggested that taller individuals are more conservative, a measure that may be used as an instrument.

▶️Barry Burden @Pamela_Herd Don Moynihan revisit this hypothesis. The answer 👉 cambridge.org/core/journals/… #Firstview #OpenAccess

Open access: Paola Cantarelli, Nicola Belle', Pamela Herd 🐀 & Don Moynihan find that COVID-19 vaccination intention is +vely impacted by reducing #AdministrativeBurden - findings especially relevant for those 64+ and with neutral or high vaccination intention tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Both parties talk about saving democracy. Both sides say they care about preserving it. Unfortunately, they mean very different things. One side proposes to tear down barriers to participating. The other is building them back up.
My column—free access: wapo.st/448Yd1i

How can researchers be relevant for policymakers? Thanks to SSRC for hosting my talk on this topic. Thread below & see also this blog donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-to-think…

New article w Pam Herd & Don Moynihan:

We confirm that taller people are (slightly) more Republican, but it's not because they have higher incomes. Personality differences between the tall and short are more likely culprits.

cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Happening now!

Reminder: An outside group funded by the Uihleins spent nearly $30 million attacking Mandela Barnes in 2022. There was no spending equivalent on the other side, and Ron Johnson won the closest U.S. Senate election in Wisconsin in a century by 27,000 votes.

Weary of another round of Biden age chatter? I discuss the paradoxes of class in 2024: Biden’s program is lifting up the working class but Trump will be done in by his weakness with the college educated. Key: the anti-Dobbs, anti-vulgarity vote
Free access wapo.st/49wcAyy

Don Moynihan Sebastian Jilke 🤖 Stephan Grim and I are organizing a Pre-Conference workshop on 'Civic Tech, Administrative Burdens and Public Management' for #PMRC2024

Join us to learn more about how civic tech is reshaping government services and how public mgmt research can help!

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Our latest paper AJPM Focus finds that even people enrolled in a given safety net program like SNAP have low take-up of other programs. This suggests need for streamlined enrollment across programs with proven health benefits. ajpmfocus.org/article/S2773-… Don Moynihan USDA Nutrition

New, from me: Schedule F is a key part of Trump's plan for a more authoritarian government. The Biden administration just released a rule that would neuter Schedule F.
What does the new rule do? And more importantly, will it work?
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-wrench-in-…

Why can response times be a flawed -- and even dangerous -- performance measurement? Barrett and Greene have the answers.

John M. Kamensky Aroon P Manoharan Don Kettl Shelley Metzenbaum David S. Bernstein Don Moynihan Dr. Elaine Yi Lu Rakesh Mohan

greenebarrett.com/post/our-respo…

DC event on 'measuring the time tax'/administrative burdens on May 7. Looks interesting if you're around!

(And I need to take the time to write my nuanced critique/augmentation of this approach.)

Please join us Thursday April 18, 3PM ET, when Don Moynihan, of College and University Fund member Georgetown University McCourt School, will join us online for a talk on:

How Can Scholars Help to Embed Institutions of Public-Sector Change?

Register here:

ssrc.org/events/how-can…

🧵 What causes #ChristianNationalism to increase? Demographic threat. Authors find telling White Christians about threats to Christian numerical dominance evoked disgust which then led to increases in Christian nationalism & belief that Christians are discriminated against. 1/4

I literally wrote the article “diversity is a dangerous setup” about how it’s a milquetoast substitute for actual liberation and I’m here to tell you that this is reactionary bullshit from a dude who has been credibly accused of sexual assault

Strong work Jon Stewart 🥴

And find that our generic scale correlates highly with the tolerance for burdens in a variety of domains. Conservative beliefs are positively related to burden tolerance (though to different degrees) regardless of domain 4/4

We demonstrate how to adapt the scale to specific policy areas 3/4

We examine correlates of the scale: Tolerance is higher among males, young adults, less well educated, those with good health, those who trust state actors more, and ideological conservatives. 2/4