Amelia Malpas

At least we didn't elect a woman president!

i'm knitting my boyfriend a sweater because we've collectively decided the sweater curse is a selection effect, not a causal effect

If you're my age or younger, Joe Biden was the best domestic policy president of our lifetime.

Our department is hosting its 7th PS-prep; this is a program for students interested in applying for a PhD in polsci at any institution. PS-prep consists of an informational session over zoom + the opportunity to get feedback from a PhD student or Faculty on your application(..)

Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”

This enrages me so deeply I don't know what to say. Being able to control your body is *the* most basic freedom, one which is necessary for the exercise of all other freedoms possible in a liberal democratic society

If you don't have autonomy over your own body, what do you really have?

Many current and past political struggles are fundamentally over who gets to control their own body and who gets to control others' bodies. It's not limited to abortion rights at all

This enrages me so deeply I don't know what to say. Being able to control your body is *the* most basic freedom, one which is necessary for the exercise of all other freedoms possible in a liberal democratic society

Very cool to have my research on progressive insurgent candidates cited in The Economist. TL;DR: there's more progressives who should enter Congress after the November elections than the last several www.economist.com/united-state...

Very cool to have my research on progressive insurgent candidates cited in The Economist. TL;DR: there's more progressives who should enter Congress after the November elections than the last several www.economist.com/united-state...

yimby voting streak in state + local primary elections continues

yimby voting streak in state + local primary elections continues

Very honored to have my work recognized! For those interested, here is a link to the updated paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

Re-upping this, since the second wave of progressive insurgents seems to have started this year

Re-upping this, since the second wave of progressive insurgents seems to have started this year

Yesterday was the first time since 2022 that progressives have successfully primaried Democratic incumbents. I have a working paper on the "Tea Party of the Left" since Bernie Sanders's 2016 run. Paper is mixed method with candidate interviews and causal analyses papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

ever since i was a little girl, i have wanted to arrive in london ten hours before a prime minister resigns

ever since i was a little girl, i have wanted to arrive in london ten hours before a prime minister resigns

I'm working on a project on cross-national young gender gap that shows dif patterns. The below w ESS & CSES data show 1. Dif in ideology (id=standardized by country) btwn young men & women, where x is year & y is standard deviations 2. Young men & women ideology relative to other age-gender groups

Had a blast joining the Science of Politics podcast to discuss my forthcoming book: Rural Pain, Republican Gain. Thank you @mattgrossmann.bsky.social for the invite!

obviously this story wouldn't have been any less dark if this wasn't true, but I really wasn't prepared for one of the victims to have been Dolores Huerta

Just want to give a shout out to this classic.

Thrilled to see our paper abt comparative factional conflict out!

Some words of mine are featured in Thomas Edsall's new opinion essay on how Trump is undermining his multi-racial coalition www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/o...

Thrilled to see our paper abt comparative factional conflict out!

🚨🎉 New Publication! 🎉🚨 Measuring Factional Conflict: A Comparative Approach Using Party Leadership Contests w/ @malpas.bsky.social & @blumrm.bsky.social Out now in Party Politics. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1354... (🧵 below)

Boylan's campaign video reminds me of Ossof's "Epstein class" comment. Interesting -- and potentially quite effective -- rhetorical moves to tie economic and sexual predation together. We should have a world free from both

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thinking of Jessica Cisneros this morning and what could have been if those 2020 and 2022 primaries had gone slightly differently!

Heartbreaking reading www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I thought the problem with the Democratic Party was that it had vague off-putting messaging?? like wtf does this slogan mean? i'm not sure i've heard a collection of English words that reeks more of consultant-speak

I thought the problem with the Democratic Party was that it had vague off-putting messaging?? like wtf does this slogan mean? i'm not sure i've heard a collection of English words that reeks more of consultant-speak

reviewing my second ever article and I'm afraid I'm reviewer 2 here