Daniel A Smith
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#politicalscience professor; #state #politics scholar (#direct #democracy, #voting, #elections); cynic, skeptic, & part-time africanist; personal musings; #florida; #polisci
Why were Americans shocked when #Trump tweeted that we should terminate “all rules, regulations and articles, even those found in the Constitution"? Outlandish and dangerous as that may be, we found that roughly one third of Americans agreed with that sentiment--that it's alright to get around the law--before he won in 2016. We compared these anti-democratic views with survey data from the 1950s and found considerable stability on several fronts.
Yet another example of a #Florida public university president cowtowing to a politician who can't handle academic freedom. The irony of wanting to limit free speech is particularly rich coming from a child of Cuban exiles.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article269539882.html
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article269539882.html
Oh, Santa, so many books on my wish list! But if you must deliver me Rubio's "Decades of Decadence" and DeSantis' "The Courage to be Free," please, please also stuff my stocking with Bergstrom and West's "Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World"
ProPublicaMoore v. Harper (aka the "independent state legislature" case currently before the US Supreme Court) could transform the law — but not in the way that many pundits, or even politicians, anticipate.
Read the analysis by Ian MacDougall
#SCOTUS #voting #gerrymandering #Elections
https://www.propublica.org/article/moore-v-harper-explained-scotus-elections
Here's a fascinating 2013 Boston Review symposium on the politics of blame. The lead essay is by the mother of #SamBankmanFried, Stanford Law Prof Barbara Fried, who argues against "blame mongering," suggesting instead that "the next time something goes terribly wrong, suppose that instead of immediately asking who is to blame, we were to ask: How can we fix this problem." #SBF
Discuss.
https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/barbara-fried-beyond-blame-moral-responsibility-philosophy-law/
Discuss.
https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/barbara-fried-beyond-blame-moral-responsibility-philosophy-law/
For those interested in racial patterns (Black and White) of votes cast by day during previous #GA elections, my forthcoming article with Michael Heron is included in the #NAACP and #ACLU amicus brief, available here
https://electionsmith.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/final-ldf-amicus-brief-ga-2022-cv-372734-1.pdf
https://electionsmith.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/final-ldf-amicus-brief-ga-2022-cv-372734-1.pdf
Emma Pettit with the Chronicle of Higher #Education https://www.chronicle.com/article/private-little-hell?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_5628375_nl_Academe-Today_date_20221129&cid=at&source=&sourceid= is always worth reading, especially if you're concerned about history repeating itself in #Florida
Democracy Docket70,050 Georgians cast their ballots on Saturday, Nov. 26, for the U.S. Senate runoff.
@[email protected], @[email protected] and @[email protected] fought in court for early voting on Saturday, and 27 counties opened their polls on that day.
Democracy is on the docket.
https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgia-runoff-nov-26-early-voting-challenge/
Big smile right now thinking about all those academic studies comparing #Ghana and #SouthKorea economic development since 1957. #WorldCup