1/ Thanks to @FiveThirtyEight for having me on the Monday pod with @perrybaconjr @ameliatd @galendruke and bless @Tonyhkchow in the "control room" for his skills!

A mini thread with some links to some studies/stories/books I mentioned https://twitter.com/FiveThirtyEight/status/1341180745222656000?s=20

2/ In the 2nd segment we discussed #GArunoff & some of the racializing + deracializing campaign ads.

Warnock's beagle ads are very likely attempting to neutralize negative racial stereotypes as political scientist Michael Tesler wrote here for the site >

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/raphael-warnocks-dog-ads-cut-against-white-voters-stereotypes-of-black-people/

3/ ...and as political scientists/experts on these issues @hakeemjefferson and @Dr_CMGreer tweeted about when the ad was released. https://twitter.com/hakeemjefferson/status/1331343005140226048 https://twitter.com/Dr_CMGreer/status/1331589659537920001

4/ This Loeffler ad in particular ties Warnock to the "radical left" with images of "Defund the Police," violence, and the photos of Warnock are him in a kente cloth, not so subtle.

5/ We discussed the @ossoff ad on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. He promises to rep the Black community by ending racial profiling/police brutality. On the pod I mentioned @jwamble25's characterization of this type of appeal - community commitment. Read him https://twitter.com/jwamble25/status/1340082512740167680?s=20

6/ In the third segment we talked about my coauthored story with @baseballot @wiederkehra about Biden's cabinet, which (if confirmed) will seat more women than any cabinet before it. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-record-breaking-number-of-women-will-be-in-bidens-cabinet/

7/ But descriptive representative [does the cabinet resemble the groups it represents?] isn't always substantive representation [does the cabinet pursue their groups' interests?]. But there is some research that suggests women in cabinets do have a unique impact on policy, eg:

8/ 1. This @apsrjournal study by Time Betz, @DavidFortunato, @dianazobrien http://www.davidfortunato.com/apsr2020b.pdf ,
2. and this study by Amy Atchison https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1554477X.2015.1082882?casa_token=umZYDDvR62AAAAAA%3A6uIoAL3HBdor_ODDdUtpnegcmK3X4jAv3aZJGgtT4k9MIRY-gav-d7TO15xjC-On2NQVbVBYYbOw6A

9/ Although women in cabinets make a difference, I mentioned that they tend to have similar backgrounds and resumes as men who are nominated for these roles. Something I learned from this book: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780190491420?gC=098f6bcd4&gclid=CjwKCAiArIH_BRB2EiwALfbH1E2qylUL8VgTgwecqzPyA8dxC5T1nbyQd55pKXW5JNl-AKDLR77bzxoC_PgQAvD_BwE

9/ And I also mentioned a framework for thinking about cabinet nominees as 1. Generalists, 2. Specialists, and 3. Liaisons. It's a great framework, developed by Nelson Polsby https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2149047.pdf?casa_token=1RR9RIP93HMAAAAA:AMcW2Z3HT3zShv4go_16T01z9EL8rwARGzRZJeX2_oxyYo8Li7aCDRA9-GYh4-jpw0hd9vqkBotiIFsnYqX_aMRMI2qR6kRdpqjspE9eo0Sm9a0UHwDn (but which I learned about reading Maryanne Borrelli https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9781588260710&i=stripbooks&linkCode=qs)

10/ Finally, I learned a lot this month about the cabinet by reading and talking to @tiffanydbarnes and @dianazobrien. Thank you! And thank you to @FiveThirtyEight for letting me bring political science to their audience. ~fin