Political Science Prof. Lynn Vavreck, as UCLA’s nominee for the new Andrew Carnegie Fellowship Award, has won one of 32 initial fellowships given nationwide (selected from more than 300 applicants) by New York’s Carnegie Corporation. She will receive $200,000 to study how super PACs and other sources of “dark funding” in U.S. elections impact the outcomes […]
UCLA Prof. Michael Chwe is somewhat accustomed to getting a “thumbs up” for his research from people outside the mainstream of political science, and has also been known to give a nod across disciplines — such as in his most recent book suggesting that early 19th-century novelist Jane Austen was a game theorist. But this […]
In the hours and days following the announcement by Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas that he would be seeking the U.S. presidential nomination of the Republican Party, media quickly reached out to hear from UCLA’s political scientists. American elections expert Prof. John Zaller, quoted in the New York Times’ “The Upshot” political column (later also cited in Huffington […]
Newly retired, five-term Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky (or simply “Zev” to any local political observer) has been announced as the featured speaker for the 2015 Bollens-Ries-Hoffenberg Lecture, the flagship annual event for UCLA’s Department of Political Science. This year’s lecture will be held on Tuesday, April 7 at 6:00 p.m., in the 260-seat, on-campus […]
Thursday and Friday, March 12-13, Political Science will host its annual “Preview Weekend” for new, incoming graduate students who have been accepted into the program, here. Activities will include introductions to various faculty members, group and individual meetings with potential mentors, field presentations from current grad students and examples of their other research efforts, and an overview […]
UCLA alum Dr. Terri Givens (Ph.D. 2000, Political Science) has just been named Provost of Menlo College, a highly regarded private business school in the Silicon Valley area of California named among the “Best in the West” by Princeton Review last year. She is currently in the Government Department at the University of Texas, Austin, […]
New to UCLA this year, Political Science and Chicana/o Studies Prof. Matt Barreto recently spoke with the International Business Times, sourced for expert feedback on the results of a recent poll showing that a much higher percentage of Latinos are concerned about the effects of climate change, when compared to non-Hispanic whites. With others, Prof. Barreto […]
Prof. Lisa Blaydes (Ph.D. 2008) returns to UCLA this week as presenter for the next Comparative Politics Workshop, some 7 years after completed her doctorate here. Now Associate Professor at Stanford — and a part of that PoliSci department’s faculty since 2007 — she is also an International Studies senior fellow with the Freeman Spogli […]
Political Science Department Summer Session course lists are out now for 2015 combining essential degree requirements with timely, topical alternatives. Introductory courses in Political Theory, data analysis for research within the discipline, as well as overviews of world, American, and comparative subfields are available for both sessions. Session A will also include studies of political […]
The day after the mass slaughter at a Paris satirical magazine last week — while a manhunt continued for the two shooters — Visiting Political Science lecturer Jeffrey Simon told a radio interviewer at KNX News Radio in Los Angeles that those responsible “will not be captured, but will be killed in a final confrontation […]
