Assistant Professor of Political Science | University of Houston| Region Rat
Houston, TX
Joined August 2017
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We're hiring in American Politics, open rank. Join us in Houston! Direct questions to chair of the search, @bjrottinghaus, or any of us on the faculty who will be happy to answer.
careers.uh.edu/jobs/assistan…
New work with @PKellstedt and @jongwoo_jeong using LLMs to help reduce the pernicious problem of misspellings. Check it out! @Res_Pol
Working with messy text as data--open-ended surveys, social media posts? There are mis-spellings! New paper w @maxallamong and @jongwoo_jeong in @Res_Pol shows how to use LLMs to make spelling corrections to improve data quality. #QuantText #TextAnalytics journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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Can Americans’ trust in local news be trusted? The emergence, sources, and implications of the local news trust advantage by Erik Peterson, Joshua P. Darr, Maxwell B. Allamong and Michael Henderson is now available. @joshuadarr @maxallamong @ProfMHenderson ow.ly/y8VC50VzauM
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Our new paper in @AJPS_Editor:
Americans have trusted local media more than national since the mid-1990s.
We show that roughly *half* of that is due to the "local trust heuristic" - people trust news that seems local, whether real or fake.
doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12969
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Celebrating 75 years of the @electionstudies at #MPSA2024: Junior scholars present new directions in ANES research in the April 4 poster session.
@maxallamong @MarcoAvina @AsfaShakeel12 Kalin Bennett, Anne Change, Hyun Euh, Matthew Kim, Sara Kirshbaum, @rociozhong
ALT Celebrating 75 Years of the ANES: New Directions from Junior Scholars Thursday, April 4 | 3 to 4:30 pm CDT (4 to 5:30 EDT) at MPSA 2024: Hyun Euh (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Matthew Kim (University of Wisconsin) Sara Kirshbaum (Vanderbilt University) Asfa Shakeel (London School of Economics) Wei Zhong (New York University) Saif Tarek Abdelrasol (Virginia Tech) Max Allamong (Duke University) Marco M. Aviña (Harvard University) Kalin Bennett (Notre Dame University) Anne Chang (University of Michigan)
Come work with the Polarization Lab! This is a great opportunity for folks interested in research questions at the intersection of social media, AI, and polarization.
The Duke Polarization Lab is searching for a Postdoc! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j… Help us continue developing the Social Media Accelerator described in this new working paper: osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/uc…
Max Allamong retweeted
📢🚨The latest issue of the @The_JOP Volume 85 Number 4 is available online ⬇️ journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jo…
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My @The_JOP article w/ @maxallamong has been published online! 50 free copies using journals.uchicago.edu/eprint…. For those with a university library: doi.org/10.1086/724959. Max and I have worked on this labor of love since his UG days at ISU back in 2016. Very proud of this one!
This @The_JOP blog post summarizes my forthcoming article with @maxallamong. We look at how differences in a country leader’s education background--specifically, their major and the educational model of their university--affect whether they pursue liberal reforms while in office.
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1st in my series highlighting JMCs is @maxallamong.
Check out his work here: maxallamong.com/
"Unknown local and foreign media sources can influence public opinion to an extent similar to established mainstream news outlets on the same issues."
cambridge.org/core/services/…
Check out this new @The_JOP blog post about our forthcoming article on leader education and policy reform!
⁉️ What are the micro-foundations of economic and political liberalization? Mark Nieman (@markdnieman) & Maxwell Allamong (@maxallamong) develop & test a leader-specific theory to explain liberalization across a range of policy areas on @The_JOP blog ⬇️📖jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/can…
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🚨New Blog Post Alert!
"Rising Tides and Sudden Surprises: The Two Faces of Climate Displacement"
Check it out here: link.medium.com/6jeRMpUu4zb
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction
Max Allamong retweeted
📣 Please share these 3 post doctoral positions offered by our department in the following fields ⬇️
📕Political Economy
📗Race, Ethnicity and Politics
📙Political Theory
More details are available in this thread ⬇️
Newspapers like these that are unfamiliar to readers can shape public opinion just like mainstream sources. Check out this open access article from Erik Peterson and I on the topic: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
They look like hometown newspapers — but they aren't. Printed papers that push Republican talking points are being sent out across Illinois.
They're taking advantage of the erosion of local news.
n.pr/3UeuL3V
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The Polarization Lab is hiring a post-doc! We will also soon be announcing positions for a software engineer and a project manager (to be posted here on Twitter asap). More details on post-doc (and link to apply) here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo?j… #SICSS #SICSS2020 #DataScience
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So proud of Doctor @jongwoo_jeong, who just received is PhD from @tamupols! Well done, Jongwoo! So proud of you! (Congrats also to @maxallamong who also graduated but couldn’t be here in person.) – at College Station, TX
Passed my dissertation defense today with the support of an incredible committee: @PKellstedt @petersonerikj @jldhouston @dhopkins1776 and Arnie Vedlitz. Huge thanks to them and everyone that has helped along the way!
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#OpenAccess from the latest issue of @apsrjournal -
The Influence of Unknown Media on Public Opinion: Evidence from Local and Foreign News Sources - ow.ly/OCs450IVlsb
- ERIK PETERSON & @maxallamong
Feels so good to be back in Chicago for #MPSA2022 after several years away. DM me if you’re lookin’ to hang tonight or tomorrow! Can’t wait to see my people again.