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Greg Sasso
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Assistant Instructional Professor in Social Sciences - University of Chicago. Political Economy, Formal Theory, Research Design.

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Now conditionally accepted at @thejop.bsky.social. Very proud of this paper. Full paper here: shorturl.at/TjEWx
Abstract: How do voting laws impact elections? We highlight how laws targeting a specific group of citizens can have weak effects on turnout and vote shares but substantial effects on policy platforms. To parse these effects, we analyze a model of electoral competition with endogenous turnout and targeted voting costs. Each party anticipates the direct effect of raising one side’s voting costs: discouraging targeted citizens from voting. Consequently, both platforms shift towards the untargeted group. These platform adjustments mobilize targeted citizens and demobilize the untargeted, muting the net impact on turnout and vote shares—consistent with scant empirical evidence of these electoral effects. Yet, on policy they also hurt targeted citizens and their aligned party. The targeted group’s size amplifies these effects. Our results address party competition, voter participation, and representation, as well as normative and empirical evaluations of voting laws.
November 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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he's been doing this for 25+ years en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ro...
November 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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😬😬😬
June 27, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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this is a lie
easyjet sign that says speedy boarding
June 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Chambord…pretty big
June 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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View from a glass of wine
June 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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View from breakfast
June 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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I think this is impossible
June 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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June 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Bottle of red wine called il bastardo
June 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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June 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Not a great picture, but Daley plaza had some good pride flags
June 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Picture from the nytimes live updates
June 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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June 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Definitely larger than the last big rally
June 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Machi found a friend at the brewpub
Two goldendoodles
June 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Excellent beer name
A beer named botanic! At the disco
June 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Last fall I stumbled upon a Great Dane Halloween meetup at the dog park
June 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Dog is unmoved by me telling him “I do not want to take you for a walk right now”
June 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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In the drama of Hegseth’s January confirmation hearings, it was easy to get distracted by the financial settlement for an assault allegation, by the multitudinous accounts of heavy drinking on the job, by claims of misogyny from both his mother and his sister-in-law, by the fact that Hegseth, while married with three small children, had fathered a child with a Fox News producer who was also married with small children, during which pregnancy he had slept with the woman who later accused him of assault, and thereby miss some straightforward information about his managerial experience.
June 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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June 13, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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June 13, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Fwiw, the current pinned post is much better
June 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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it's fine, murderbots are cool
June 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Grilled cheeseburgers, asparagus, and portobellos
June 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM