Maxwell Palmer
Political scientist at Boston University. Institutions + local politics + voting rights.
www.maxwellpalmer.com / www.housingpolitics.com
- Capable but error prone research assistant vs oracle sums up the bsky vs X views of Claude Code for social science divergence really well
- Catherine O’Hara SCTV thread youtu.be/990OaFr8EYw?...
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- A book never feels real until you hold it in you hands. @profsorelle.bsky.social & I can now confirm that Uncivil Democracy is real! If you care about #peoplepower #housingjustice, #tenantorganizing & transforming our perverse political economy, this is a book for you. Order here: bit.ly/3NLYCCw
- I have an article forthcoming in the Annual Review of Political Science called, "Participatory Democracy & Its Limits." It focuses on limited citizen attention & how participation can backfire, w/ land use as an example. Abstract below; here's a preprint: kevinjelliott.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
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- A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.
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- looking for a good overview/tutorial (text or video) on MCPs and code agents for #rstats / Positron (and maybe Claude Code) so I can see how that world is shaping up—any good ones out there?
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- In the spirit of the season, I want to offer my fellow historians and other scholars the gift of an amazing, largely untapped archive. Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
- This recent piece by @ayakohiramatsu.bsky.social utilizes the Doar papers to understand how DOJ enforced the VRA.
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- Beware natural scientists doing social science You wouldn't trust an economist doing physics or chemistry or astronomy. So don't trust the reverse
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- I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
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- Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted
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- After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social
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- Brandon Nimmo is the first millionaire to flee Zohran Mamdani's Communist New York City
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- I’m the parent of an autistic kid. What CDC is doing here is offensive. It’s offensive to me. It says his autism is the result of my ignoring evidence. It’s offensive to my kid. It says there’s something wrong with him (there’s not) and it would be better to risk literal death than be autistic.
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- 'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'
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