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Reeher Shares Thoughts on Trump and Mamdani Meeting with AFP, LiveNOW from FOX
Ahead of the meeting between incoming New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani and Donald Trump, Grant Reeher, professor of political science, tells Agence France Presse: “Look for the outcome of that meeting to be something to the effect of, ‘I think I can work with (him)—but we will see how it goes and I’m hopeful—we both want the city to succeed’.”
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Gadarian Speaks With The Cincinnati Enquirer About 2028 Presidential Bids
“There are just so many things that have happened in the last six months in this presidential administration that to think that we know what the issues will be in 2028 and who the players will be—I think it's just asking too much,” says Shana Gadarian, Merle Goldberg Fabian Professor of Excellence in Citizenship and Critical Thinking.
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Inflation and Incumbent Support: Experimental Evidence from the 2024 US Presidential Election
Co-authored by Professor of Political Science Daniel McDowell, the study was published in the British Journal of Political Science.
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Faricy Quoted in Frankfurter Rundschau Article on Trump, US Economy
In order to persuade Trump's loyal MAGA camp to critically question the economy, the country would have to fall into a deep, prolonged recession, according to Christopher Faricy, associate professor of political science. In addition, there is a need for “more uniform reporting” in the media, which attributes the economic crisis to Trump's policies, he says.
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Reeher Speaks With AFP, The Guardian, The Hill and Newsweek About Mamdani’s Win in NYC
“Mamdani’s got to get his ideas realized in policy, and New York is notoriously difficult to govern. It’s arguably the second hardest political job in the United States, after the president. So whatever he’s able to accomplish, it won’t be easy,” says Grant Reeher, professor of political science.
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McDowell Discusses His Research on Immigrants’ Partisan Preferences in PsyPost Article
“Immigration attitudes are not immune to strategic electoral thinking and hyper-partisanship,” says Daniel McDowell, Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of International Affairs. “For many Americans, our study shows that the desirability of immigration depends not just on cultural or economic factors, but also whether voters believe migrants have the same partisan preferences that that they do.”
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Pete Buttigieg Driven by ‘Propulsion’—Not ‘Despondency’
The former U.S. Secretary of Transportation joined Professor Jay Golden for a capacity event that covered environmental issues, leadership, democracy and more.
Brockway’s “The Shadow Gospel” Reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books
“This is a transcendent, boundary-breaking work about ‘the need to recognize, decode, and resist demonological messages,’” says Peter B. Kaufman, associate director of development at MIT Open Learning.
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Gadarian Quoted in Christian Science Monitor Article on Gov. Newsom’s Challenges to President Trump
“They have their own constituencies that they are there to represent, but also they have the ability to capture media attention and be very clear and forceful, because they don’t have to deal with Trump in the Washington policymaking arena,” says Shana Gadarian, Merle Goldberg Fabian Professor of Excellence in Citizenship and Critical Thinking.
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Do Immigrants’ Partisan Preferences Influence Americans’ Support for Immigration?
The article, co-authored by Professor of Political Science Daniel McDowell, was published in the Journal of Experimental Political Science.
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