The Political Scientist

I've written before about the impact of foreign aid on immigration , a subject that, to date, hasn't received thorough attention by political scientists, economists, or international political economists. Though the intersection of foreign aid and immigration has gone understudied, a fuller understanding of the consequences the former has for the latter would go a long way in helping policymakers in wealthy donor countries better measure the usefulness of foreign aid as an immigration policy tool. So far, research has shown both that donors use foreign aid to promote development in migrant-sending countries in an effort to reduce the demand for bilateral migration and that migrants residing in donors lobby their host countries to send more aid to their various countries of origin. The impact that foreign aid has on the demand to immigrate, however, has not received much serious consideration by scholars. The Curvilinear Impact of Foreign Investment on Bilateral Migration

It's tempting to call President Donald J. Trump the "Tweeter-in-Chief," and this is true for a rather logical reason: the man tweets A LOT. I started compiling a list of the President's tweets -- both from his personal account (@realDonaldTrump) and from his official POTUS account (@POTUS) -- beginning February 16. From that date until now, Trump has tweeted more than 850 times via his personal and POTUS accounts combined. As the below figure shows, aside from a spike in @POTUS tweets during a joint address given by Trump to Congress, Trump's Twitter activity has generally remained steady, and neither his official POTUS account nor his personal account appears to be, in general, more active. However, similar levels of activity do not necessarily guarantee similar degrees influence. Since February 16, both Trump's personal account and the official POTUS account have seen an increase in followers; however, the former has substantially outpaced the latter