Benny Witkovsky
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Benny Witkovsky
@bwitkovsky.bsky.social
Sociology Ph.D. Candidate at UW-Madison. Studying local politics, nonpartisanship, and polarization. bennywitkovsky.com
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Fascinating work in the WWI era on the weaponization of this new nonpartisanship. Nonpartisanship is a "capacious category and can be exploited by different actors."
August 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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@uwsoc.bsky.social team @bwitkovsky.bsky.social and Carter Burg present on the production of nonpartisanship in Prog Era Wisc. Benny's dissertation sheds even more light on how "nonpartisan local governance was always the product of political parties, partisan conflict, and partisan institutions."
August 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
"But I egress."
June 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Congratulations!
April 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Thanks! I can definitely share something as we get closer!
April 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Election data from WI Legislative Technology Services Bureau has demographic data in it. Not exactly sure how good it is, but its a good place to start: gis-ltsb.hub.arcgis.com/pages/downlo...
April 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Every once in a while I end up at a hotel breakfast without the toddler and eat so many berries.
March 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM