Following last year’s search to fill a joint faculty appointment with UCLA’s César A. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies, Prof. MATT A. BARRETO (pictured in a 2012 public television interview), […]
Moving from “Sense and Sensibility” and other Jane Austen novels, as they relate to “game theory” (see earlier book profile, here. Prof. Michael Chwe recently asked readers of the “Making Sen$e” […]
Are “supermajority” requirements for passage simply a “more” democratic way to govern? Do they perhaps create an almost insurmountable bias towards the status quo, against positive change? These questions and […]
In addition to a continuation of ongoing Comparative Politics, Political Theory, and International Relations presentations after the winter break — Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (REP) workshops begin in late January, […]
Can expectations of increasing political power (through greater numbers) result in Latinos — as a group — ever realizing “full, equal, and just inclusion” in American society or will a […]
President Obama’s announcement last week regarding plans to invoke executive action shielding millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation drew mixed reactions from throughout the country. For one, National Public Radio […]
From the Department Chair’s recent e-newsletter we learn that, following this year’s addition of three new professors, Political Science faculty recruitment continues for two tenure-track positions (one in Comparative Politics; […]
[Note: Prof. Melvin Rogers was interviewed in a podcast about the special “Ferguson” issue of “Theory & Event” by Johns Hopkins Press. Listen here.] In real-time — as a grand […]
Research projects by students studying Political Science at UCLA can be intriguing, perplexing, multilayered, and even contradictory — but “sweet”? PoliSci major and Daily Bruin contributor Joshua Scherer has made […]
Will the newly voted-in power shift in the U.S. Senate sound a death knell for President Obama’s Affordable Care Act during the coming term? This week on Southern California Public […]
