Co-sponsored with UCLA’s Center for Middle East Development and others, “5 Decades of Middle East Studies” is an afternoon-long event honoring Emeritus Prof. Leonard Binder, who retired from the Political […]
Comparative Politics Prof. Barbara Geddes has been awarded the initial UCLA Graduate Mentorship Award by the Political Science Graduate Student Association, for 2014. The award will now be presented to […]
On the eve of midterm congressional elections — in the wake of Ferguson, Missouri, unrest — KPCC radio’s “Take Two” program asked Political Science Prof. Mark Sawyer why politicians seem […]
The Friday (November 7) Political Theory Workshop will feature a panel discussion headlined as “Willful Subjects” and featuring two presenters: George Washington University’s Elisabeth Anker — discussing “The Theft of […]
Political Science and Communication Studies Prof. Lynn Vavreck recently told host Warren Olney on his “To the Point” nightly KCRW/National Public Radio (NPR) program that so-called political “attack ads” can […]
KPCC-FM radio’s “Airtalk” program last week delved into the current geopolitical and economic ramifications of increased U.S. oil production and decreasing oil prices at a time when its relations with […]
In the new issue of Foreign Affairs, UCLA Political Science Prof. Daniel Treisman and co-author Prof. Andrei Shleifer (Harvard Economics) suggest that the “prevailing gloomy narrative about the postcommunist world […]
Just before the midterm 2014 U.S. elections, Political Science will kick off its AMERICAN POLITICS subdiscipline workshops for 2014-15 with Prof. Larry Bartels of Vanderbilt University — an award-winning author […]
In the largest addition to its tenure-track faculty since 2001, we welcomed three new members this fall (from left): CHAD HAZLETT is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Statistics. He […]
For the 2nd Annual E. Victor Wolfenstein Memorial Lecture, Thursday afternoon, October 23, UCLA Political Science is pleased to welcome Prof. “Lawrie” Balfour, interim chair of the University of Virginia’s Woodrow Wilson Department […]
