Elementary age kids care much about politics, says Lynn Vavreck, professor of political science and communications at UCLA. But in fact, in elementary school classes, “kids parrot back everything” parents say.
The 2016 campaign is putting the most influential political-science book in recent memory to a stiff test
That is, if we can learn anything from previous U.S. presidential contests, it is that foreign policy issues very rarely determine who wins the general election. As UCLA political scientist Lynn Vavreck has argued, the economy drives electoral outcomes in most cases and, even when it doesn’t, foreign policy tends to remain a secondary issue. For […]
Mr. Trump, who handily won that South Carolina primary and all its delegates, is attracting Republican voters across demographic groups — conservatives, moderates, evangelicals and those who are not born-again Christians. In a sense, he is uniting parts of the party that have been on opposite sides of recent nomination battles.
Richard D. Anderson, Jr., a professor of political science at UCLA who has studied political linguistics, said the tone has something to do with the dynamics of the race, including the public’s distrust of career politicians.
Former U.S. Congressman and current UC Regents Professor Henry Waxman is not ready to pull the plug on government, regardless of how negative the political climate and election season have become.
The first two elections in the primary cycle are complete, yet the lid remains open on one controversial topic that surfaces every primary season: the apparent “whiteness” of Iowa and New Hampshire. The matter usually is boiled down to a single question: How could two mostly rural states with majority-white populations fairly represent the national […]
Black votes matter. In both 2008 and 2012, black voters turned out at the polls at unprecedented numbers, helping to secure the election and reelection of the first black president in the Oval Office. Barack Obama owed much of his triumphant White House bid to this demographic, granting him more than 90 percent of their […]
With cracked sidewalks, dull lighting and an uneventful calendar, Westwood needs to be revamped. Before Third Street Promenade and The Grove arrived, Westwood Village was the place to be.
A new program at UCLA called THINQ uses disciplines from various fields such as business and engineering to implement innovative methods to improve the healthcare workflow at Ronald Reagan Medical Center. THINQ aims to make the hospital more efficient and effective in delivering quality patient care.
