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Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh. Losing the Popular Vote Doesn’t Make Trump Illegitimate. It’s Irrelevant. November 9, 2016. These arguments are silly: the popular vote tells us virtually nothing about what an election would have looked like if the popular vote mattered. The basic idea is that elections are strategic. If you change the rules of the game, you change the strategic incentives. Award wins based on hits, and suddenly those sacrifice strategie...
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Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh. Slow to Learn: Bargaining, Uncertainty, and the Calculus of Conquest, with Peter Bils. Forthcoming, Journal of Conflict Resolution. How Uncertainty About Judicial Nominees Can Distort the Confirmation Process, with Maya Sen. Forthcoming, Journal of Theoretical Politics. Multi-Method Research: The Case for Formal Theory, with Hein Goemans. 25 (1): 25-33. [ More. Sanctions, Uncertainty, and Leader Tenure, with Brad Smith. Does ...