The Runner-up Effect DateMay 23, 2014 Time7:00am to 8:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Exploiting regression discontinuity designs in samples of Brazilian, Indian, and Canadian first-past-the-post elections, we document that second placed candidates are substantially more likely than close third finishers to run and win subsequent elections. This identifies the effect of being labeled the […]
Political Theory Workshop with Dean Hammer DateMay 22, 2015 Time4:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter:Dean Hammer, Franklin and Marshall CollegeRespondent:Anthony Pagden, UCLATitle:“Were the Roman People Sovereign?”Abstract: paper takes up the question of whether we can talk meaningfully about sovereignty in the Roman republic. The argument addresses the contending claims of […]
REP Workshop - Chris Zepeda-Millan DateMay 20, 2016 Time4:00pm to 5:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract:Survey research has traditionally shown that foreign-born Latinos are among the least likely to participate in political activism. Yet during the spring of 2006, up to five million immigrants and their allies took part in a historic national protest […]
PT Workshop - Ainsley LeSure, Occidental College DateMay 19, 2017 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract:Overwhelmingly, scholars of contemporary racial injustice argue that the disjunction between our society’s express commitment to racial egalitarianism and the persistence of racial inequality is due to the pernicious racial beliefs, sentiments and dispositions found in the […]
Memorial Day Holiday (no classes) DateMay 25, 2015 Time6:00am Location Contact Memorial Day Holiday on May 25,2015 (no classes). Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:
CP Workshop - Jeremy Weinstein DateMay 23, 2016 Time12:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:
IR Workshop - Marc Trachtenberg, UC Los Angeles DateMay 22, 2017 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:
REP Workshop - Lauren Davenport, Stanford University DateMay 22, 2017 Time3:00pm to 4:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract:Since 2000, the U.S. multiple-race population has skyrocketed by 106%—more than 17 times the rate of growth of the single-race population. Individuals of mixed-race comprise the fastest-growing youth group in the nation, and an estimated 20 percent […]
Methods Workshop DateMay 28, 2014 Time3:00pm to 5:00pm Location 4276 Bunche Hall Contact UCLA Department of Political ScienceMethods WorkshopSponsored by the Formal Theory Reading GroupfeaturingKirill PogorelskiyCalifornia Institute of Technology“Correlated Equilibria in Voter Turnout Games”ABSTRACT:This paper develops a game-theoretic model of turnout when voting is costly and the players' strategies can be correlated. Varying the structure […]
Methods Workshop with Barry O’Neill DateMay 28, 2015 Time3:00pm Location 4276 Bunche Hall (Seminar Room) Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter:Barry O’Neill, UCLATitle: "What is an Agreement?"Abstract:The concept of an agreement is important in game theory, political theory and law but writers disagree about just what it is. Some argue that an agreement cannot be a […]
