Christopher Witko

@Cmwitko

Assoc Director and Prof . Tweets my opinion only. Sock puppet for . Book on state responses to economic inequality:

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    Mar 3

    Nominations for the Section Excellence in Mentoring Award (senior scholar who encourages + facilitates careers of emerging scholars in pub pol) are due by 4/15/21. Includes $500 award 💸 🤑 Send to me Past winners in reply to this tweet.

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    Weekly Roundup: The evolution of corporate lobbying in W. Europe by How local GOP orgs amplified election fraud lies by How Congress is talking about cannabis to constituents by

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    22 hours ago

    Is Congress ready to talk about weed? It's happening more now than ever. Once a taboo, congress is increasingly talking about marijuana to constituents in their official capacity:

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    I love you Mary Jane? What do members of Congress say? See the latest by ⁦⁩ in ⁦⁩

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    Mar 4

    WOW! According to Between the day after the election and Jan 6th, 1 in 10 Facebook posts from county Republican party pages mentioned fraud. For comparison, only 7.5% mentioned COVID-19

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  6. Mar 4

    Congress should stay in session and if *anyone* attacks the Capitol they should be met with deadly force. Isn’t this letting the terrorists win? I don’t get this decision.

    NEW TODAY: The US Capitol is on alert once again after threats of violence surfaced online from a far-right militia group. The House canceled today's session and will be off the rest of the week:
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    Mar 3

    And you can read the 2020 article here:

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  8. Mar 3

    Very interesting piece on the role of local Republican parties in amplifying elections fraud claims and then explaining the insurrection by and for

    . and and I looked at how local Republican parties amplified claims of election fraud before January 6th and then piovted away from them (to an extent) after January 6th. New on
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  9. Mar 3

    2020 Andrea L. Campbell 2019 Amanda Bittner 2018 Bruce Cain + Julia Lynch 2017 David Weimer 2015 Karen M. Hult 2012 John Witte 2011 Bryan Jones 2010 Theda Skocpol 2009 Paul Sabatier 2006 Kenneth Meier 2005 Frank Baumgartner

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    Mar 2

    Wrote a blog post for about how corporations evolved as important individual political actors in Western European countries over the past decades. Based on my PhD research and work together with

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    Mar 2

    Great new post on corporate lobbying in Western Europe by based on research with

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  12. Mar 1

    WTH?

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    Mar 1

    🚨🚨🚨 Call for award nominations from the APSA Class & Inequality Section! -Best Paper -Best Paper on Social & Economic Inequality -Best Paper on Entrepreneurship & Inclusion Send nominations to all the committee members by March 15!

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    Mar 1

    associate professor of public policy 's new book, Public Policy and Politics in Georgia: Lessons from Post-Soviet Transition, is available in print now!

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    Mar 1

    Here's our scoring of the wealth tax introduced today in Congress by , and Because of the upsurge in billionaire wealth, a wealth tax would generate even more revenue than what we estimated in 2019 Thread 👇👇👇

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  16. Mar 1

    I'm writing a check to the IRS for the second year in a row. GOP tax reform targeted people in the Northeast and West Coast who pay high state and local taxes.....and it worked!

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    Feb 28

    It's all relative. To read how Americans all across the income distribution describe wealth & poverty in their own words, and to see how their perceptions move when their social comparisons change (in experiments+communities) check out (w/ )

    The “Is $150K a lot of money?” debate is pretty boring but it is relevant to housing politics in how it highlights that this country has a massive upper-middle class that is perpetually convinced it is impoverished
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  18. Feb 27

    Check out my buddy's new tune. Good stuff!

    Replying to @MarakoMarcus
    Just out today ! Thanks 👊
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    Feb 27

    In case you missed it this week: - the fight for racial justice and immigration policy.

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    Feb 26

    Chris Ellis and I have written a new book The Other Side of the Coin: Public opinion toward tax social expenditures otherwise known as tax breaks. Here are some of the major findings. /1

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