Rep.-Elect Nanette Barragan Education: UCLA, political science B.A. 2000; USC, J.D. 2005 Career:Lawyer Political history: Hermosa Beach City Council, 2013-15. Hermosa Beach mayor, 2015 Barragán beat Sen. Isadore Hall (D-Compton) in the race to replace Rep. Janice Hahn (D-Los Angeles), who gave up the seat to run for the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. Barragán rallied public support to keep a […]
Lorrie Frasure-Yokley, associate professor of political science, said she thinks the polls were inaccurate because they failed to account for the 2 million white voters from rural areas who did not vote in the 2012 election, but did vote in the 2016 election. Lynn Vavreck, a political science professor, said people should remember that Hillary […]
What about your discipline of political science? The day after the election I found myself thinking about political scientists who were likely not surprised. I do not know this for a fact but I think Lynn Vavreck of UCLA, whom I admire greatly, was one of them. Vavreck says that there are only two kinds of campaigns. One […]
A Man Without A Curtain “Part of what’s just so compelling about the spectacle that we are seeing playing out is that there’s sort of no curtain in front of Donald Trump,” said Lynn Vavreck, a professor of political science at UCLA who observes political advertising closely. What she means is that Trump’s campaign apparatus […]
Brian Hamel, a researcher with the Early Voting Information Center, said early vote numbers are also tightening up at this point: Nationwide, about 7.4 million Democrats have voted and 6.4 million Republicans have voted, CNN reported. “That suggests a relatively close national race,” Hamel, a political science PhD student at Universisty of California, Los Angeles, said.
Political science is one of the most popular majors at UCLA, and graduates of the program have gone on to careers in education, business, law, government, diplomacy and even entertainment. After receiving their undergraduate degree, many students choose to go to graduate school. Those who enter the workforce earn an average starting salary of $42,000.
Lynn Vavreck, a professor of political science at UCLA, is a co-author of “The Gamble,” about the 2012 presidential campaign. This column appeared in the New York Times. Hillary Clinton’s campaign released an ad in late September called “Mirrors.” The ad shows young girls looking carefully at themselves in a mirror or on their mobile phones. A […]
Dr. Matt A. Barreto is Co-founder and Managing Partner of the polling and research firm Latino Decisions which he co-founded with Gary Segura in 2007. Barreto is also Professor of Political Science and Chicana/o Studies at UCLA. In 2012, Time Magazine called Latino Decisions the “gold-standard in Latino American polling” and Barreto’s research was recognized […]
When it comes to the ongoing barrage of presidential campaign ads, what’s working and why? Politics and media experts from UCLA and Vanderbilt University will provide a data-backed understanding of commercials’ persuasiveness and effectiveness with SpotCheck, a new approach to rating political ads. A website that launched today will track the results of their efforts throughout […]
Joe Kahn, a political science major at UCLA, participates in the final round of the debate competition held at Santa Monica College.
