Salil Benegal

@SalilBenegal

Political scientist talking climate change politics & policy; also food, wine, and Yankees baseball.

Joined July 2016

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    13 Apr 2018

    Thrilled to see this paper with Lyle Scruggs finally published at Climatic Change. We use an experiment to show Republican politicians speaking against partisan interest are especially persuasive in correcting climate change misinformation.

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    20 hours ago

    Dear , if you research politics, the internet, new tech, social media or other related fields consider submitting an abstract to the Information Technology & Politics Section of APSA (). Deadline is Jan. 15th. Please RT. Info ➡️

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    23 hours ago

    Thread. Tackling climate change with individual action is the world's worst collective action problem. Instead, let's actually *be* collective on this!

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  4. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    Tomorrow at my session with we'll have of on how H-1B visas spread the tech boom from the US to India, benefitting both countries (but w/ distributional effects). Full paper: Our session:

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    Jan 3

    go online they said, you'll have at least a couple of days a year when you don't want to light yourself on fire they said

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  6. Jan 3

    Oh no. Dammit , you couldn't keep an awesome, homegrown reliever?

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  7. Jan 3

    Thread - really looking forward to reading this book by

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    Jan 3
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  9. Jan 2

    Great piece, and a great quote that I'm sure I will be borrowing: "It’s exhausting to fight about everything. The alternative is far worse."

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  10. Jan 2

    Good thing he's likeable and wrote that op-ed.

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    This is such bull***t. First it was a hoax. Then the science was uncertain. Then we were “alarmists.” Then any fix was too expensive. Now it will be fixed with “innovation.”

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    31 Dec 2018

    Holy shit. Just finished ’s Heavy, which I bought after reading ’s review: . Read this book. Buy it for your loved ones. Assign it in your classes. Come back to it time and again. Thank you, . We don’t deserve it.

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  14. Jan 1
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  15. Retweeted
    Jan 1

    Still looking for more syllabi/reading recs (academic and journalistic) for: 1) American Political Thought and 2) Media and US Politics. Please retweet, thx!

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    31 Dec 2018

    Important to face up to the political economy of climate denialism and sabotage. This piece of research by and his colleagues is invaluable:

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    31 Dec 2018

    Hands down the best thing about 2018 in my book is that there are now people in Congress and movements backing them who grasp the scale of change needed to take on the climate crisis and are willing to push hard to make it happen

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    29 Dec 2018

    new World Politics piece on the actual consequences of McKinsey’s work in countries like Saudi Arabia: Outside experts make autocratic rulers over-confident and encourage state-building shortcuts.

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    A major part of the EPA's new mercury proposal looks like an unconscionable bow to powerful interest groups, potentially costing many lives. It also looks like a violation of the Clean Air Act (for administrative law specialists, Chevron Step 2).

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  20. 28 Dec 2018

    Fits into the trend that Nancy Bermeo highlights in her 2016 JOD piece On Democratic Backsliding - - that coups are generally less common now, but executive aggrandizement and electoral manipulation are much bigger challenges for democracy.

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    28 Dec 2018

    Teachers and professors, do any of you do peer review assignments with your undergraduates?

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