P.S. You’re Interesting

P.S. You’re Interesting is a series of conversations on political science research hosted by Jeffery A. Jenkins. Formerly, “Our American Discourse,” we continue the series to pick up the tradition Anthony W. Orlando began. We hope to keep conversations … discourse alive. To keep thinking about the research we do in the academy, why it matters to us, and hopefully to you. Sponsored by the USC Bedrosian Center http://bedrosian.usc.edu/ Recorded at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy http://priceschool.usc.edu

Anna Harvey 12/15/2021

Anna Harvey Jeff speaks with Anna Harvey, Professor of Politics; Affiliated Professor of Data Science and Law; Director, Public Safety Lab at NYU about research and more. /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/21433625

Michael Olson 11/17/2021

Michael Olson Jeff speaks with Michael Olson, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Washington University at St. Louis about research and more. /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/21125387

Zhao Li 09/15/2021

Zhao Li Jeff speaks with Zhao Li, Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Li studies institutional and behavioral factors in donor decision making in contemporary American Politics. /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/20328092

Miguel Pereira 03/24/2021

Miguel Pereira Jeffery speaks with new USC Dornsife assistant professor Miguel Pereira about research and experiments in political science. /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/18260084

Rachel VanSickle-Ward and Kevin Wallsten 02/24/2021

Rachel VanSickle-Ward and Kevin Wallsten In this episode, Jeff speaks with Rachel VanSickle-Ward and Kevin Wallsten. In The Politics of the Pill, the two authors explore how gender has shaped contemporary debates over contraception policy in the U.S. /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/17976467

Melissa Lee 11/25/2020

Melissa Lee In this episode of the PS You’re Interesting podcast, Jeff Jenkins speaks with Melissa Lee, Assistant Professor of Politics & International Affairs, Princeton University. They begin discussing a recent project in which Lee and co-author study the change in civic language reflecting the change in thinking about the U.S. as a collection of states to a nation. /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/16776011

Clayton Nall 10/28/2020

Clayton Nall In this episode of the PS You’re Interesting podcast, Jeff Jenkins speaks with Clayton Nall, Assistant Professor UCSB. Nall looks to explain how spatial policies change American politics. These discuss Nall's research on housing policy preferences and party affiliation and how building highways in the 1950s worked to build Republican suburbs (increasing the urban-suburban divide. /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/16526216

Jared Rubin 09/30/2020

Jared Rubin In this episode of the PS You’re Interesting podcast, Jeff Jenkins speaks with Jared Rubin, Professor in the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University. Rubin is an economic historian interested in the political and religious economies of the Middle East and Western Europe. His research focuses on historical relationships between political and religious institutions and their role in economic development. /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/16119095

Christian Fong 09/16/2020

Christian Fong In this episode of the PS You’re Interesting podcast, Jeff Jenkins speaks with Christian Fong, Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan. Fong's research focus is legislative politics. Recent work is on reciprocity in Congress questions the motivation for cooperation. /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/15952907

Michael Hankinson 09/02/2020

Michael Hankinson In this episode of the PS You’re Interesting podcast, Jeff Jenkins talks with Michael Hankinson, Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/15798437

Ryan Hübert 02/26/2020

Ryan Hübert In this episode of the PS You’re Interesting podcast, Jeff Jenkins talks with Ryan Hübert, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/13160864

J. Andrew Sinclair 01/29/2020

J. Andrew Sinclair In this episode of the PS You’re Interesting podcast, Jeff Jenkins talks with J. Andrew Sinclair, Assistant Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College. In his research, Sinclair is interested in relationships between voters, elected politicians, and bureaucrats. /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/12773006

Seth Hill 10/30/2019

Seth Hill In this episode of the PS You’re Interesting podcast, Jeff Jenkins talks with Seth Hill, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science UCSD. Hill studies how citizens motivate politician behavior. /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/11760620

Leah Stokes 10/16/2019

Leah Stokes In this episode of the PS You’re Interesting podcast, Jeff Jenkins talks with Leah Stokes. Stokes, a public scholar, is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/11509556

Danielle Thomsen 10/02/2019

Danielle Thomsen In this episode of the PS You’re Interesting podcast, Jeff Jenkins talks with Danielle Thomsen, Assistant Professor of Political Science at UC Irvine. Her research in American Politics primarily falls into looking at Congress, parties, and gender & politics. /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/11487497

Abby K. Wood 09/04/2019

Abby K. Wood Today, Jeff Jenkins talks with a Bedrosian Faculty Affiliate, Abby K. Wood. Wood is Associate Professor of Law, Political Science and Public Policy. When she first started her career she noticed that program evaluation wasn't as robust as it could be, so she wanted to learn causal inference in order to find that balance. /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/11021765

Pamela Ban 05/08/2019

Pamela Ban Host Jeff Jenkins talks with Pamela Ban, Asst Prof of Political Science at UC San Diego. Ban discusses her recent research. First, she looks at how policy outcomes might change as Congress has a bit more gender representations. Then they discuss the revolving door and lobbying - how the cool off period has affected the lobbying industry. Finally, she thinks about how to use empirical data from newspapers to think about political power. /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/9533252

Elisabeth R. Gerber 04/10/2019

Elisabeth R. Gerber In this episode of the PS You’re Interesting podcast, Jeff Jenkins's guest is Elisabeth R. Gerber, Associate Dean for Research and Policy Engagement; Jack L. Walker, Jr. Collegiate Professor of Public Policy (UMich). They discuss the move from Political Science departments to public policy departments - how the focus has moved from theory development to theory application, and how engagement with community stakeholders outside of the university can help solve real world problems. /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/9289310

Philip Potter 02/13/2019

Philip Potter When do leaders pay penalties for backing down on promises? /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/8369075

Boris Heersink 01/30/2019

Boris Heersink National Party Committees and the political power /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/8368766

Martin Gilens 12/19/2018

Martin Gilens Jeff Jenkins talks economic and political inequality in democracies with Martin Gilens, Professor of Public Policy at UCLA Luskin. The degree of political influence is dramatically unequal for people within the United States, public policy can help increase democratic representation and Gilens walks us through a some history as he expresses policy options to get us to more democracy, rather than less. /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/7923644

Gregory DeAngelo 12/05/2018

Gregory DeAngelo Today, Jeff learns about human trafficking fromGreg DeAngelo, Associate Professor of Economic Studies at Claremont Graduate University. How does an economist get data on human trafficking and other black market enterprises? How can we use technology & interdisciplinary work to capture meaningful data ... and eventually make evidence-based policy impact? /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/7754171

D. Roderick (Rod) Kiewiet 11/20/2018

D. Roderick (Rod) Kiewiet In this episode of the PS You’re Interesting podcast, Jeff Jenkins and D. Roderick (Rod) Kiewiet, Professor of Political Science at Caltech, break down the long standing myth of the equalizing force of public education. We hold the idea that public schools present Americans with equal opportunity. Kiewiet gets to the reality through public school funding in California compared to the nation. /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/7589780

Benjamin A. T. Graham 10/24/2018

Benjamin A. T. Graham In this episode of the PS You’re Interesting podcast, Jeff Jenkins and Benjamin A. T. Graham, assistant professor in the School of International Relations at USC, discuss the role that migrants can play in bringing foreign capital into countries. He uses case studies from the Philippines and Georgia to get at what kinds of social networks evolve in developing countries. /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/7288895

LaGina Gause 10/10/2018

LaGina Gause Jeff Jenkins and LaGina Gause, Assistant Professor of Political Science at UC San Diego, discuss the pro-democracy (small d) results of her study on legislative responsiveness to collective action by marginalized groups. Her findings seem counterintuitive, in that the relationship between the costs faced by protesters and legislative action. /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/7148192

Benjamin Newman 09/26/2018

Benjamin Newman Jeff Jenkins and Benjamin Newman, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the UC Riverside, discuss creativity and experimentation in political science. As a young scholar, Ben was interested in figuring out why people have the opinions they have, why they vote the way they do. To answer these questions, and integrate the questions he has about the people and circumstances surrounding him, Ben is developing a set of research questions and experiments to explore his world. /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/7091436

Update from Our Producers 09/14/2018

Update from Our Producers A quick update from our Producers: We will use this feed, for the Our American Discourse podcast, to bring you a new series of conversations. We will change the title to PS You’re Interesting. PS will be a series of conversations on new and novel research in political science. We’re conceiving this as a way to keep Anthony’s amazing work alive, and continue on in his tradition. The Our American Discourse podcast will still live on his and . So the archive of episodes will remain on all the different platforms to give other humans a chance to discover. Since you’re already a subscriber, we wanted to make sure you had a chance to check out the new series. We’ll pivot to this new conversation series with host and director of the Bedrosian center, Jeffery A. Jenkins. Jeff will be a tad more focused on political science rather than everything we do at the Price school. We hope you’ll like what we’re doing to keep this idea alive and that you’ll let us know what you think about it. Look for our first episode on September 26th. The first episode will feature Jeff in conversation with Ben Newman from UC Riverside. Ben is doing experimental work to look at discrimination in the policing of anti-immigrant hate crimes. We hope you’ll give it a listen and send in feedback! Follow us on social media: Email us if you have questions or ideas: /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/7047439

The End: Death, Cemeteries, and Remembering 07/10/2018

The End: Death, Cemeteries, and Remembering Though we are sad to bid farewell to “Our American Discourse,” we welcome the opportunity to talk about farewells—indeed, the hardest farewells of all: those that happen after death. How do we say goodbye to the past? And what does our farewell mean for the lives gone before us and for the future that will come after them? It is time to break the “death taboo” and have one last real conversation about the one last real experience we all must confront. In this episode, David Charles Sloane tells the history of the American cemetery, and in that story, we find the evolution of our own existential approach to life, death, and beyond. For links and more, check out the . /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/6747666

It’s Not Just Where You’re Going, It’s Also How You Get There 06/26/2018

It’s Not Just Where You’re Going, It’s Also How You Get There If the old saying is true that “life is a journey, not a destination,” then it stands to reason that the way we travel matters a great deal. In fact, that’s what the latest evidence has shown: Transportation choices and systems play a crucial role in our economy and our environment. You may think that your car or bike or walk or train ride is only about you, but it’s really one piece of a giant moving puzzle, in which we’re all trying to access the American dream in the same urban landscape at the same time—and that means it is imperative to do it smartly, justly, and sustainably. In this episode, Marlon G. Boarnet weighs the pros and cons of different transportation modes and shows how the infrastructure we build now will shape our quality of life for generations to come. For links and more, check out the showpage. /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/6746625

The Eternal Struggle for Power on Capitol Hill 06/12/2018

The Eternal Struggle for Power on Capitol Hill Power is up for grabs in Washington. A controversial President, an unpopular Congress, and a midterm election all make 2018 a battleground for political control. Who will win? How will they do it? And what role do you play? This is story of the most consequential game ever played, and it’s told by one of the leading Congressional experts of our time. In this episode, Jeffery A. Jenkins teaches us the strategy of legislative power: who has it, how they get it, what they do with it, and why we should care. For more, check out the . /episode/index/show/ouramericandiscourse/id/6693016

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