This is a poor argument by James Fishback. Harris's book was published three years earlier than Pence's & sold more copies. More supply & more demand.

Today PS: Political Science & Politics published a symposium with many great contributions to the 'measuring democracy and implications for global backsliding debate.'

The symposium includes a shorter article version (open access) of the paper detailed in the long thread below.

And Miller's comment is worth a read!
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This is an outright lie. Biden said that the foreign investors (Saudi Arabia, China, etc.) used to purchase Twitter should be looked at, not Musk himself. And several of these investigations date back to the Trump era.

Someone needs to sit in on my Causal Inference class next semester.

New to #firstview this week: UCLA Julian Michel, GW University Michael K. Miller, & UCLA @MIgrationNerd examine how autocracies decide who is allowed to emigrate, with new data from East Germany.

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Worth noting: Our new IO article is in Open Access, so it's free to read & report us to the secret police.

New article alert: How Authoritarian Governments Decide Who Emigrates: Evidence from East Germany bit.ly/48ffk3b
with Michael K. Miller Julian Michel So excited to see this in print because it took so long to get here (thanks, covid)

TT job in international security at GW! 👇I'm happy to answer Qs, too

Check out the recording of PS's Roundtable on Democratic Backsliding at APSA 2023!
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Andrew Little Anne Meng Carl Henrik Knutsen
Daniel Weitzel Daniel Treisman Yana Gorokhovskaia
Staffan I. Lindberg @[email protected] Rob Blair - robertblair.bsky.social Michael K. Miller

I want to thank Michael K. Miller for a very detailed, comprehensive, and generous review of my 'Opposing Power' book, alongside 2 others, published in the latest issue of Perspectives on Politics. His summary of my book is even better than my own! Open access! ♥️♥️♥️

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“No one is above the law”?

Sorry, that’s a typo. It should say:

“No! One is above the law!”

McCarthy: 'When I was young and I played a game Frogger... the only time I got ran over [was] when I got out of my lane.'

Um, the whole point of Frogger is to cross lanes.

There's not much contradiction there since V-Dem's pessimistic report is mostly based on 10-year shifts and often population-weighted. I wouldn't place too much weight on a single year given that FH concurs with the decade decline.