Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Can someone help me out with a PDF of this study? https://t.co/uJMKToTLtJ — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@whstancil Thanks, I appreciate that! FWIW, I think the question is nuanced and that David's view is worth taking seriously but clearly isn't the whole story — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@whstancil My biggest stake in this conversation, about which I have only weakly held opinions sent in a single reply, is that you came in guns blazing with a sweeping generalization about someone's work that you weren't familiar with — and were completely wrong! And won't apologize! — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@whstancil But like more fundamentally, maybe you should delete the tweets accusing me of being a white guy who thinks all race/gender politics are bad? It's a gross, gross mischaracterization. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@whstancil I was speaking hypothetically, not referring to any specific strategic decisions in the past as good or bad. Something like decriminalizing border crossing is unpopular but very good and should be approached cautiously and subtly. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@whstancil Yes, that's me, the author of this piece https://t.co/D8X0F8Xhkt — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

It seems to be clearly the case that the "Great Awokening" has 1) pushed Democrats toward adopting a substantively better political agenda on race and redistribution but also 2) created some new political liabilities for the party that need to be more openly acknowledged — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@pstanpolitics @EmmaMAshford If I had to bet, the longer Modi is in power the higher the likelihood there is of partisan polarization over the US-India relationship. Netanyahu's premiership in Israel is an (imperfect but useful) analogy — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@EricLevitz @jonathanchait @jbouie I largely buy Shor's claim in your interview that the risks of procedural reform are lower than widely seen but yes, legislative sequencing can serve a similar raising/lower salience function as bureaucratic maneuvering — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@EricLevitz @jonathanchait @jbouie IMO the solution is to do the popular things loudly and the unpopular-but-substantively-good things quietly through obscure bureaucratic processes and executive actions — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

"I think that if we implemented D.C. and Puerto Rican statehood and passed redistricting reform, that would roughly triple our chance of holding the House in 2022 and roughly the same in the Senate." https://t.co/tujbO5rgVm — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

"If we don’t use this window, we will almost certainly lose control of the federal government and not be in a position to pass laws again potentially for a decade" https://t.co/tujbO5rgVm — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

According to Freedom House, the US has suffered one of the largest declines in democracy in the world over the course of the last 15 years. A big chunk of that decline came in 2020 alone: https://t.co/jekfG28W5d https://t.co/jSLQweRLdF — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@YousefMunayyer I asked them for that, but they didn't have it. I think part of the problem, though they didn't say that, is that pre-1990 data is complete garbage — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

This is probably only of interest to political scientists and other assorted nerds, but I learned a lot of interesting stuff about how Freedom House generates its data. The system used to be awful and is now pretty good; nice study on that here https://t.co/yzqLJ3vWSi — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

If you care about democracy, this chart is really fucking grim https://t.co/jekfG28W5d https://t.co/nFUs4sOZr8 — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

The new @freedomhouse report on the state of democracy worldwide makes for some pretty grim reading https://t.co/df0PTD9RVG — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

One of my biggest regrets about the 2020 cycle is that I didn't write in Inslee in the primary, who I still think would have been the best president of the field — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

RT @JakeMGrumbach: Great @zackbeauchamp piece drawing on data from @blackbruin, https://t.co/Ulxi49IPBP, Bartels, @MilanSvolik, @VinArcenea… — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@DenisonBe That sounds so so interesting — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@DenisonBe this is what i needed, ty — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

https://t.co/ZmxlDgY8DL — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Hello comparativist friends! Is there a handy guide to the relative strengths and weaknesses of the main quantitative democracy assessments — Freedom House, Polity, Vdem? — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@JakeMGrumbach @weakinstrument @blackbruin @MilanSvolik @VinArceneaux @cwarshaw I'm really interested in which parts specifically are most contentious — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

RT @EmmaMAshford: Oh my goodness, this chart. 😬 https://t.co/fkTdwXto3y https://t.co/bpv6rMHKDe — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

RT @drvolts: "The Republican Party is the biggest threat to American democracy today." @zackbeauchamp rounds up 13 charts that make the po… — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

"We hear your concern that we're a quasi-monopoly with outsized control over too many platforms, and we're responding by working to merge them all into a giant mega-platform" — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

At this point it feels like Facebook is just daring anti-trust regulators to come after it https://t.co/MKwyTmHK2z — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@sagar__dubey @nils_gilman I was going to suggest Patel too. Before I started reading about Indian history I had heard of Nehru, but not Patel's crucial role in helping enshrine a unified secular state — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

RT @smsaideman: Really impressed and depressed by @zackbeauchamp 's https://t.co/JBNnmQZOxE where he shows how autocratic the GOP has becom… — PolitiTweet.org