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Josh Kertzer

2 months

New in @AJPS_Editor with @CarlyNWayne @mitsurumu @Prof_MHolmes : how do group dynamics affect assessments of resolve and costly signals?

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

6 years

What I thought I’d do when I became a professor: -research -inspire young minds -make a difference in the world What I actually do now that I’m a professor: -fill out Doodle polls

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Josh Kertzer

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4 years

Many of you already know, but right as I started giving my undergrads their final exam yesterday I discovered I had gotten tenure @Harvard . A huge thanks to everyone for their support, and to my students for being too polite to ask why I looked like I was having an exorcism ❤️

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Josh Kertzer

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4 years

Big, if true

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Josh Kertzer

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2 years

Am super excited about Jamie Druckman’s new landmark @CUP_PoliSci book on experiments in the social sciences.

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

5 years

You guys, a student came to office hours accidentally dressed just like me, and now all of my academic goals are complete

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Josh Kertzer

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23 days

Always nice to meet with my fans #APSA2024

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

4 years

There's nothing better than when good things happen to good people. Please join me in congratulating the newest tenured Professor at @Harvard , Dara Kay Cohen, whose award-winning scholarship has helped bring sexual violence to the very center of the study of IR.

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

3 years

An epistemic question for IR scholars on here: What has the war in Ukraine changed your mind about?

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

3 years

People are dunking on this, but some of the most interesting IR research coming out right now is on the relationship between the interpersonal and the international. A mini-thread… 1/

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

3 years

Happy/thrilled/flabbergasted to be receiving the 2021 Karl Deutsch Award at #ISA2021 🥳 A huge thanks to the committee for this huge honor (and to the ISA program for a strategic typo that will forever keep me humble)

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Josh Kertzer

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4 years

Some personal news: my internet went down for 25 minutes while I was Zoom teaching, and my amazing students carried on the discussion without me until I got back 😭😭😭

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

7 years

Something I’ve never understood about academia is how our entire enterprise is built around a peer review system that we never directly teach our students how to navigate. 1/5

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

2 years

Reviewers often have very strong views about when an experiment is "too abstract", without much evidence to back it up New in @AJPS_Editor : @ryan_brutger @jrenshon @dtingley @chagai_weiss and I test the consequences of abstraction in experimental design

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

4 years

There are few things political scientists have been more skeptical of than generalizing findings from samples of ordinary citizens to political elites. Now out in @AJPS_Editor , I argue elites may not be as exceptional as we think.

American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library

Political scientists often criticize psychological approaches to the study of politics on the grounds that many psychological theories were developed on convenience samples of college students or...

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

4 years

Some of my previous work has argued that political scientists have too pessimistic a view of the mass public. In a forthcoming @AJPS_Editor (🥳!), I suggest we might have too optimistic a view of political elites. A thread...

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@zeitzoff

4 years

Important and new AJPS_Editor paper by @jkertzer "Re-Assessing Elite-Public Gaps in Political Behavior.” He finds there's not a big difference between elites & mass opinions, and any difference is mostly due to demographics, not elites “thinking” about politics differently.

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

3 years

It’s me, in @ForeignAffairs , asking you to stop conflating credibility with reputation, or assuming reputation is only about resolve

American Credibility After Afghanistan

What the withdrawal really means for Washington's reputation.

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

4 years

I asked my students to reflect on what they learned working on research this semester, and one wrote that they've learned to trust social science research much less, so it's clear my work here is done

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

2 years

Excited to see Mintz, @nvalenti11 and @CarlyNWayne 's terrific new @CUP_PoliSci book in print, which unifies psychological approaches to the study of politics across subfields. A masterful synthesis of multiple disciplines, and great for teaching too!

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

4 years

Earlier this year @PolPsyISPP asked me to write an advice column for early career scholars. So, here's my main contribution to the online academic advice industry: be sure to time your academic career to *avoid* global pandemics. You're welcome!

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

2 years

Interested in fielding surveys or experiments on political elites but not sure where to start? Reviewing an elite experiment but unsure about best practices? Now open access at @AnnualReviews : @jrenshon and I on the state of the art of elite experiments

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

3 years

Elite experiments are on the rise in political science. How do we know a good one when we see it? Forthcoming in the Annual Review of Political Science, @jrenshon & I take stock of the promises and pitfalls of surveys and experiments on political elites.

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

8 months

New in @IntOrgJournal w @tcjost @notEricMin & Schub: We combine computational methods with uniquely rich Cold War archival evidence to study how advisers matter in foreign policy. Where advisers stand doesn't just depend on where they sit. 🧵

Advisers and Aggregation in Foreign Policy Decision Making | International Organization | Cambridge...

Advisers and Aggregation in Foreign Policy Decision Making - Volume 78 Issue 1

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

1 month

What we read in the Harvard IR Reading Group this summer. 📚 Thanks to the authors for writing such interesting pieces, and all the grad students & faculty who showed up each week to offer lively discussion!

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

3 years

New in @IO_Journal with @Prof_MHolmes @bradleveck @CarlyNWayne How do psychological biases aggregate in groups? A mini-🧵 @HarvardGovernm1 @WUSTLPoliSci @global_wm @UCMercedPoliSci @IQSS @HarvardWCFIA

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

3 years

Please join me in congratulating @YarhiMilo , the winner of the 2022 @ISSS_ISA Emerging Scholar Award in recognition of her fundamental contributions to the field of security studies! @SIWPSColumbia @ColumbiaSIPA @ColumbiaPoliSci

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

5 years

Am slightly gobsmacked to discover that our article on how leaders interpret costly signals (with @ColumbiaSIPA ’s @YarhiMilo and @uwpolisci ’s @jrenshon ) is the winner of the Bruce Russett award for the best article published in JCR in 2018! 🥳🥳🥳

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

1 year

Like almost every grad student at @osupolisci at the time, Bear Braumoeller ( @Prof_BearB ) was who I wanted to be when I grew up. He became my advisor, and then my friend. I owe everything to him, and I cannot imagine the world without him in it.

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Our dear colleague, Bear Braumoeller, passed away this morning in Oslo after a sudden, brief illness. Words cannot express our feelings of profound sadness. As we know more, we will post plans for events in his memory.

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

3 years

I'll go first! I work on leaders in IR (from a dispositional rather than situational approach). My sense these past few days is that dispositional accounts of Putin largely seemed to get him wrong, viewing him as pragmatic and risk averse. I no longer believe that to be true.

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

6 years

Major life announcement: I’m thrilled to announce I’ll be wearing shorts at #APSA2018 tomorrow. Thanks to family and friends for all of your support during this excessively hot time. APSA-goers unite! You have nothing to lose but your heat-trapping fabric! ✊

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

5 years

I know disciplinary norms vary, but everything about this (experiment on N=30, selecting on the dependent variable, overly strong conclusions from fMRI studies, little engagement with political violence research in polisci) makes me break out in hives

Opinion | What I Learned From Scanning the Brains of Potential Terrorists (Published 2020)

How understanding the mind of a radical Islamist can prevent the next white-nationalist attack.

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

3 years

I have an enormous amount of respect for the terrific political scientists who are quoted here, but I found this piece very puzzling. I know a lot of civil war scholars, and… very few of them think the United States is on the precipice of a civil war.

Zack Beauchamp

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I am an optimist by nature. But I have spent the past few months digging into the research about democracy and civil conflict, and it has made me profoundly worried about where the country is heading. Here's why.

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

6 years

AJPS is now imposing a page limit on *online* appendices. I'm assuming this means they'll also be imposing a limit on the number of robustness checks reviewers can request? 🤔

AJPS

@AJPS_Editor

6 years

From the AJPS Editor's Blog: Some Details about New AJPS Submission Requirements via @ajps_editor

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

4 years

It's back, back, back again! Happy to be teaching a new version of my Political Psychology in International Relations graduate seminar this term:

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

3 years

New, in JCR with the amazing @ke_powers and not just one, but two different Brookses from @Dartmouth : How does fairness matter in international politics? (A mini-🧵)

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

1 year

Time for some happy news: we have a doctor in the house! Please join me in congratulating Dr @naimagreenriley , who defended her pathbreaking dissertation on 🇨🇳and🇺🇸 public diplomacy. We'll miss you at @HarvardGovernm1 , but we're excited for your next adventures!🎉

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

4 years

🎊 Congratulations to our discipline's newest doctor, Yoon Jin Lee, who defended her dissertation this morning and is heading to @Wellesley this fall🎊

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

4 years

I don't know who needs to see this, but Charles Tilly's wikipedia page is WILD

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

3 months

As tensions continue to mount, pundits are increasingly worried about security dilemmas emerging between the US and China. New in @World_Pol with @ryan_brutger and Kai Quek - we show both the 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇳 publics are prone to security dilemma thinking

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

6 years

Thrilled to announce that I seem to be a discussant on four separate #APSA2019 panels, because I'm too forgetful to remember what I've said yes to, and too Canadian to know how to say no to service requests🙇🏻‍♂️

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

7 years

In anticipation of #ISA2018 this week, and in honor of @womenalsoknow , a quick look at some of the amazing books by female political scientists that swept the @isanet book awards this year:

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

5 years

When two non-Americanists run into each other in the Palmer House lobby #MPSA19

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

4 years

In an instance of The False Promise of NYT Headlines, the “liberals” expressing concern about Biden’s foreign policy team quoted in this article are… John Mearsheimer 🤔

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

4 months

Today we celebrate an amazing group of @HarvardGovernmen1 PhDs to graduate in 2023-24! Yesterday, we toasted their accomplishments in person, today, let's pay tribute to them online! A 🧵…

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

2 years

🚨 Are you a student from a historically underrepresented group interested in doing a PhD in political science? @HarvardGovernm1 is holding its third annual PS-Prep mentoring event next month, and you should apply!🚨 [Please RT!]

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

1 year

We interrupt your doomscrolling for some wholesome news! Not only is tomorrow Thom Wall's birthday, but this year he's celebrating his 20th (!) year as the cornerstone of our grad program @HarvardGovernm1 , having helped… ~500 (?) students navigate the gauntlet of grad school.

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

5 years

🚨POLITICAL SCIENTISTS 🚨: This is best thing on the internet you will see today. In 1976, two of Sid Verba’s advisees, the great @kjandersen ( @MaxwellSU ) and Goldie Shabad ( @osupolisci )— defended their dissertations together. SO HE WROTE THEM A POEM.

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

5 years

Last year I crunched some numbers for some of my grad students to try to make them feel better about a journal rejection. It's not just @The_JOP that's seen enormous increases in submission recently. A mini-thread:

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

2 years

"Will the conference give you cake?" My adorable undergrads, upon discovering I'm spending my birthday at #APSA2022

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

6 years

The causal effects of final exams on the death rate of grandmothers: "A student who is failing a class and has a final coming up is more than 50 times more likely to lose a family member than is an A student not facing any exams."

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

6 years

Great news, everyone! My @PrincetonUPress book is now available in paperback! Remember: every time you buy a book, an angel gets its wings.💫

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

6 years

"What's the deal with "survey experiments"? Are they surveys, or experiments?" - Words of wisdom from Reviewer 2

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

2 years

He's wisely not on Twitter and will probably never see this, but I know I speak for a lot of people in the discipline when I say that Jamie is one of the field's foremost reminders that it's possible to be both incredibly smart and genuinely kind at the same time.✨

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

5 years

Read of the day: a great new APSR by @andrewbhall @ConnorDHuff and @shirokuriwaki , showing how the American civil war may have been a "rich man's fight" after all:

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

7 years

Looking forward to offering a new graduate seminar on Political Psychology and International Relations this semester (preliminary syllabus here: )

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

3 years

When your paradigm is *definitely* super falsifiable

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

4 years

Thanks so much to @DaphnaCanetti @ProfKarpo & @nvalenti11 for this huge honor! 🇨🇦

Carly Wayne

@CarlyNWayne

4 years

@jkertzer @WUSTLPoliSci @PolPsyISPP Thanks 😊 ...I don't have a screenshot but @jkertzer just accepted the Erik Erikson early career scholar award from #ISPP2020 as well. Cannot think of anyone more deserving 👏👏 Congratulations!!!

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Josh Kertzer

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7 years

This only reinforces my prior that reviewer jerkiness is learned, as reviewers calibrate the tenor of their reviews and engage in vicarious retribution in response to nasty reviews they themselves have received.

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Josh Kertzer

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5 years

In a sign that our social media overlords both know too much about us and too little, after talking about #ISA2020 in Hawaii, Facebook is now giving me a variety of creative suggestions about what to wear. So, if I show up at your panel dressed like a merman, you'll know why. 🧜‍♂️

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

6 months

For those going to #ISA2024 , come join us on Friday @ 4 PM as we celebrate the life and legacy of the incomparable Bear Braumoeller, the recipient of this year's SSIP Distinguished Scholar Award @AishaB05 @DeborahAvant1 @sbmitche @drewrosenberg_ @maryumalam @osupolisci @isanet

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

5 years

Congratulations to our discipline’s newest doctor, @ConnorDHuff ! @jafrieden @dustintingley #twitterlessdaracohen

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

4 years

Congratulations to @WUSTLPoliSci 's @CarlyNWayne for winning the @PolPsyISPP Best Dissertation Award for her work on the micro foundations of responses to terrorism! 🥳 #ISPP2020

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

6 years

Hi political scientists: I’m writing a review piece on new developments in public opinion about foreign policy. If you’ve published in this area, help me cite you! Am especially interested in recent/forthcoming work, and pieces by junior scholars @womenalsoknow @POCalsoknow

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

6 years

This is a great thread, and it's terrific to see committees innovating in the hiring process to try to reduce bias in the academic job market. But just like "fit", the role of "taste" in hiring is complicated, in ways we don't always acknowledge. A mini-thread: 1/

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Josh Kertzer

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1 year

Congratulations to all of the freshly minted @HarvardGovernm1 PhDs who graduated in 2022-23! Doing a PhD is tough even without all of the challenges this particular cohort has faced. We're so proud of all you've accomplished! Since not everyone could celebrate in person, a 🧵!

Andrew Leber

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Congrats to members of @HarvardGovernm1 graduating today! (Myself included)

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3 years

Are you a student from a historically underrepresented group interested in going to graduate school in political science? @HarvardGovernm1 is holding its second annual PS-Prep mentoring event, and you should apply! [Please RT!]

Political Science-Prep (PS-Prep) 2024

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

6 years

One of the most interesting pieces I’ve read this term: @tcjost @BelferCenter Schub @UNLPoliSci & Meshkin @WestPoint_USMA study US military officers before and after basic training, finding the civ-mil attitude gap is due to selection, not socialization

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

6 years

Let the record show that pet bathrooms in airports in Canada are nicer than human bathrooms at LaGuardia, Newark and JFK

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

7 years

The Trump White House is an unnecessarily elaborate conspiracy designed to prevent political scientists from finishing our #APSA2017 papers

The New York Times

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Anthony Scaramucci's removal came just 10 days after he was brought on as communications director

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Josh Kertzer

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2 years

Congratulations to @sarmoh , an extraordinary teacher who just won @Harvard 's university-wide @DerekBokCenter teaching award! We're so proud of you!🥺

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

3 years

The thing about @Madeleine Albright is that every policymaker you meet afterwards seems incredibly underwhelming. She was razor sharp, and believed scholars had an important responsibility to give back to the broader community. My thoughts are with her family.

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5 years

Happy to have a new article in @IntOrgJournal with — not one, but two! — Rathbuns @uscpoir on how motivated reasoning complicates costly signaling. 1/

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4 years

Warning! This is a thread about academic inside baseball. Let's call it Sherlock Holmes and The Case of the Missing IR Articles.

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5 years

Am really excited that my article with @jrenshon ( @uwpolisci ) and @YarhiMilo ( @PUPolitics ) on how we 🔍👀 the resolve of others is now up on FirstView @BJPolS . We started working on it five years ago, and it's one of our favorites!

How Do Observers Assess Resolve? | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core

How Do Observers Assess Resolve? - Volume 51 Issue 1

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7 years

#AcademicTwitter hive mind: I'm holding a workshop this afternoon giving graduate students advice on how to make their first large conference experiences ( #ISA2018 , #MPSA2018 , #APSA2018 , etc.) as useful as possible. Have any advice to share? Let me know!

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4 years

St Patrick’s Day hits different on Zoom ☘️

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@jkertzer

4 years

Political scientists often point to elite-public gaps to show why expertise and experience matter. Except it turns out that when political elites in your country look like this, elite-public gaps in policy preferences can also be due to factors other than expertise 🙂

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@jkertzer

4 years

All @PrincetonUPress books are 50% off this week (with free shipping!) with the checkout code PUP50, which means Resolve in International Politics is currently the price of a salad at Sweetgreen (but with a lot more protein). How can you *not* buy a copy?

Resolve in International Politics

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5 years

Me to my coauthors

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@jkertzer

7 years

New in @AJPS_Editor w @ConnorDHuff : how do we decide what counts as terrorism?

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4 years

🎊 A huge congratulations to the incredible @naimagreenriley on winning the Morris Abrams Award in International Relations for her ongoing dissertation research on 🇺🇸🇨🇳public diplomacy! 🎊 @HarvardWCFIA @HarvardGovernm1 @HarvardGovUG

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5 years

Just withdrew from #ISA2020 and all of my remaining talks/conferences this semester because of Harvard's new travel ban - am very sorry to miss everyone! In case it's helpful to others: @united was very accommodating; the verdict is still out on @MarriottBonvoy

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Excited that our article on what the public counts as terrorism is now ungated as part of @AJPS_Editor ’s new highly-cited articles collection @ConnorDHuff

American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library

Every time a major violent act takes place in the United States, a public debate erupts as to whether it should be considered terrorism. Political scientists have offered a variety of conceptual...

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

7 years

Force-of-nature @dustintingley and I have a new @AnnualReviews article out on recent developments in political psychology in international relations: it's not just about why decision-makers make mistakes anymore. @PolPsylISPP

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3 years

Usually our impulse in these instances is to double down and claim vindication for our preferred theoretical approaches (or repudation for theories we never believed anyway). Instead, I'm curious: what were you wrong about?

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@jkertzer

4 years

Congratulations to @ConnorDHuff and @jaclyn_kaslov (both @RicePoliSci ), @michael_p_olson ( @WUSTLPoliSci ), and #TwitterlessShelleyLiu ( @GoldmanSchool ) for winning the @HarvardGovernm1 department's 2020 dissertation awards!🎉

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Josh Kertzer

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3 years

Continuing my theme of "the mass public deserves more credit than political scientists give it": New in @The_JOP with @Dartmouth 's Deb & Steve Brooks: we find on average, Americans' beliefs about what Dems & Reps think are pretty accurate!

Do Partisan Types Stop at the Water’s Edge? | The Journal of Politics: Vol 83, No 4

A growing number of analyses presume that distinctive “partisan types” exist in the American public’s eyes in foreign policy, with implications for questions ranging from the ability of leaders to...

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

2 months

🚨 Harvard is hiring in IR! 🚨 Great faculty, great grad students, great undergrads, great vibes, and as a bonus, you can probably negotiate a joint appointment as a judge at next year's Great CGIS Bake-Off™

TENURE-TRACK PROFESSOR OF GOVERNMENT – INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

The Department of Government seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor in Government specializing in International Relations. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2025. The tenure-track...

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

5 years

Anyone who claims that IR journals don't publish policy-relevant research hasn't read the new issue of @IntOrgJournal , which tackles questions like: - Why the Iran nuclear deal died - Why govts give bilateral bailouts - Why border walls restrict trade

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1 year

My new goal in life is coming up with a paper title that beats "Donetsk, don't tell". Truly a masterpiece. 10/10, no notes.

Donetsk don’t tell – ‘hybrid war’ in Ukraine and the limits of social media influence operations

Many fear that social media enable more potent influence operations than traditional mass media. This belief is widely shared yet rarely tested. We challenge this emerging wisdom by comparing socia...

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

4 years

Live footage of me teaching a lecture class on Zoom this semester

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3 years

@YarhiMilo @ISQ_Jrnl @Prof_MHolmes @CUP_PoliSci @Joshua_G_Baker @Journal_PoPs @arakeys @ClaireYorke @michaelallen @flynnpolsci @carlammm Anyway, I lack the stamina for long Twitter threads (I’m no @ProfPaulPoast , in this as in all things!), but there is a broader intellectual puzzle here. I've never met or interviewed a foreign policy decision-maker who *doesn't* think that personal relationships matter in IR 7/

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@jkertzer

3 years

A thread about Bob Powell. Like Bob Jervis, who we tragically lost last Thursday, Powell was both personally and professionally influenced by Thomas Schelling, even though the two Bobs took their work in very different directions.

Sean Gailmard

@SeanGailmard

3 years

My friend and colleague Bob Powell passed away today. Bob was an unequalled scholarly force, an incredibly generous colleague, and an intellectual hero to many of us including me. His memory will always be a gift to our field and to Berkeley. I will miss him immensely.

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

5 years

I *love* this new @IntOrgJournal by @dshyde and @ProfSaunders on how IR scholars have been getting regime type wrong:

Recapturing Regime Type in International Relations: Leaders, Institutions, and Agency Space |...

Recapturing Regime Type in International Relations: Leaders, Institutions, and Agency Space - Volume 74 Issue 2

www.cambridge.org

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

6 years

Fascinating new #QJPS from Baum, Cohen and Zhukov uses automated content analysis of US newspaper articles from 2000-13 to temporally and spatially measure rape culture, and suggests it predicts the incidence of rape itself @womenalsoknow

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

3 years

In a great Virgo nightmare, I just discovered I have a second work email address I was never told about, which has been collecting unread emails from my colleagues for two years 🤡

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

6 years

Sad to learn of the passing of Rod MacFarquhar, a giant in the study of Chinese politics (and enthralling elocutionist)

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

4 years

Excited to present brand new work work w @CarlyNWayne @Prof_MHolmes @bradleveck at 4:10 PM ET today at #ISPP2020 . We field large-scale group experiments to study the "aggregation problem" in IR *empirically*, testing whether & how individual-level biases aggregate in groups.

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

6 years

This @NYTimes article tracking how Trump uses his platform to amplify messages sent to him from his base is fascinating in highlighting the limits of studying politics as a strictly top-down phenomenon:

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Josh Kertzer

@jkertzer

4 years

@matt_blackwell Are you concerned about the prospect of cereal correlation?

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