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 Science department in 2012. Five leading Middle East specialists from universities across the country will take part Wednesday, November 19 (Sequoia Room, UCLA Faculty Center) starting at 1:30 […]
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 one full-time faculty annually in recognition of “outstanding mentorship.” Prof. Geddes has been part of the UCLA Political Science faculty since 1984 and has served […]
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 to be discussing race and ethnicity less. Or are they? Prof. Sawyer is the author of ” Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Cuba.” Listen to or […]
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 Freedom…” — and Cristina Beltrán of New York University with “…Latino Republicans and the Conservative Logic of Identity.” Panelists take as their starting point the […]
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 have a silver lining behind their cloud – especially when they provide voters with data they might not otherwise hear. Prof. Vavreck is a regular […]
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 Russian – a major oil producer – and Iran appear strained. Among the on-air panelists was Political Science Prof. Michael Ross. Prof. Ross is the […]
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 is mostly wrong” — media images aside. Transitions there to liberal capitalism and democracy haven’t failed, but rather are just “incomplete.” Most recently, Daniel Treisman […]
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 and educator whose research delves deep into the underpinnings of public opinion and electoral politics, making him a “go-to” resource for elections researchers from academia […]
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 completed his Ph.D. at MIT earlier this year. Prof. Hazlett’s research and teaching interests include machine learning, developing and extending approaches to causal inference, and […]
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 of Politics. Her subject is: “Fugitives’ Democracy: The Political Worlds of Toni Morrison’s Essays and Fiction.” Prof. Balfour — the author of two books and […]
