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), formerly part of the Political Science faculty at University of Washington’s Seattle campus, joined the faculty here, at the start of winter quarter. Prof. Barreto […]
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” blog at PBS.org’s Newshour site to consider how such economic theory could be applied to incident reporting technology and ongoing efforts to change campus culture, […]
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 more will be explored in an early-2015 on-campus event, the first Thursday after the Winter break (January 8 at 3:00 PM). That session of the Marschak Colloquium […]
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, and continue through May. First up for REP will be Monica Varsanyi, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City Univ. of NY), presenting the timely […]
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 past history of marginalization still play a role? While many scholars of “minority” politics see the racialization of U.S. citizenship as having produced a form […]
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 sought on-air reactions specifically from the immigrant-heavy southwestern United States and interviewed UCLA student Justino Mora (in white shirt talking to President Obama months ago) […]
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; one a joint appointment with the Dept. of Statistics) and is ramping up for a third — a replacement to fill the Marvin Hoffenberg Endowed […]
[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 jury in Missouri hears final witnesses on whether to indict police officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, news media report […]
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 headlines and TV news in a number of places while blogging about food, this time it’s with his “ramnut” invention, a hybrid sweet that crosses […]
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 Radio’s “Take Two” program (KPCC), Prof. Mark Peterson discussed the Affordable Care Act, whether the Republicans now have inroads to undo the program, and recent […]
