Jake Jares

@JakeJares

Assistant Prof of Political Science @TAMU. US political economy & ag policy. Trying to follow Jesus, work in progress.

jakejares.com Joined July 2018

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Jake Jares @JakeJares Aug 6, 2024

Thrilled my paper with @namalhotra is out at @apsrjournal! Have you always been captivated by the impacts of trade policy on political behavior, applications of causal machine learning, and shocks to soybean prices? Ok well regardless this is still the paper for you! A thread 🧵

American Political Science Review @apsrjournal Aug 2, 2024

Just published on APSR First View: “Policy Impact and Voter Mobilization: Evidence from Farmers’ Trade War Experiences”, by Jake Alton Jares and Neil Malhotra. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

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Jake Jares @JakeJares Aug 6

Really admirable scholarship on display. Sorry about the (somewhat) failed manipulation, but thanks for setting an example for scientific honesty / transparency.

(And maybe the failure itself is substantive re how tightly bound people view income / status / working conditions!)

Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @edenhofer_jacob Aug 5

Quick follow-up thread on this experiment. Alas, the latter failed. I thought it would be useful to share the results -- in the spirit of countering file-drawer bias and preventing others interested in similar questions from repeating our mistakes. Our intuition was that climate
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Jake Jares @JakeJares Jul 17

Anyone else who studies climate change getting their Claude Fable 5 conversations flagged as a security risk? I don't see what's so dangerous about soil moisture and heat trends, unless they suspect I'm some kind of cartoon movie villain who is trying to blot out the sun.

Jake Jares @JakeJares Oct 7, 2025

Well this seems like a hugely important advance in the study of corporate political activity

Andy Hall Verified account @ahall_research Oct 7, 2025

Think lobbying and campaign contributions are the key to how companies navigate American politics? Wrong. Corporate policy teams are where the real action is!

Our new paper offers the first ever systematic, quantitative study of corporate policy teams, based on LinkedIn data on more than 100 million US workers.

Key findings:

--Roughly 250,000 people work in corporate policy roles in the U.S. This is about *13 times* the number of registered lobbyists!

--Policy teams are growing much faster than lobbying teams, nearly doubling since 2010 while lobbying teams have barely grown.

--Policy teams and lobbyists are complements; increases in lobbying teams tend to coinside with increases in the size of policy teams.

--But policy team members are not just lobbyists by another name, they do something different. While lobbyists are overwhelmingly likely to have political experience, reflecting how important their relationships and political capital are, corporate policy team members often don't, suggesting they are more focused on delivering expertise, internal counsel, and managing other types of stakeholders.

Navigating politics is getting more and more complex for companies today. For the most part, they haven't reacted to this complexity by hiring more lobbyists; instead, they've grown their internal policy teams.

Link to full paper will be in the replies.

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Jake Jares @JakeJares Aug 23, 2025

A new passionate defense of Francesca Gino, this time a podcast series by Lawrence Lessig. I'm tired of reading whataboutism on this case so I fed the released transcripts to Claude to check if there was finally an explanation for the data anomalies.

(lol you know the answer)