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SUMMARY:American Politics Workshop with Seth Masket
DESCRIPTION:American Politics Workshop with Seth Masket \nDateMay 11\, 2015 \nTime12:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Seth Masket\, University of DenverTitle:“Do Voters and Activists Nominate the Same Sort of Candidates? A Look at Legislative Vacancy Appointments in Illinois and Colorado”Abstract: In Colorado and Illinois\, local partisan vacancy committees are charged with appointing replacements for state legislators who have recently resigned or died. This presents researchers with a rare opportunity to determine whether those elected officials selected by party elites differ in important ways from those chosen by voters. This particular study examines whether vacancy appointees – with less experience\, fewer established ties to voters and groups\, and less time to raise funds than their traditionally nominated colleagues – suffer in terms of funds raised and votes won in the next election cycle. In fact\, vacancy appointees end up with more funds and higher vote shares\, on average\, than those nominated through traditional means. However\, this advantage does not appear to be tied to party donor networks. These findings are suggestive that party elites are able to pick highly skilled politicians who are talented at fundraising\, wooing voters\, and impressing interest groups.Paper:Click here to download. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/american-politics-workshop-with-seth-masket/
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SUMMARY:Explaining the Rapidity of Social Change
DESCRIPTION:Explaining the Rapidity of Social Change \nDateMay 12\, 2014 \nTime5:00am to 6:30am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nSocial change\, for example\, public support of same-sex marriage\, often has the following dynamic: existing behavior or norms persist for a long time\, and then change to the new normal very rapidly. This rapidity is not easily explained by processes of social learning and influence\, which occur more gradually. Another example is the 2007 financial crisis\, in which financial institutions gradually became aware of the shakiness of mortgage-backed securities but continued to accept them as collateral in trades for years\, only to suddenly stop accepting them altogether. I present a simple game-theoretic model of this dynamic. In the model\, people care about the actions of other people but also about fundamentals. When fundamentals change\, people gradually learn about the change but still persist in the old behavior even after almost everyone has learned about it. Only after people realize that other people know (the change becomes not just widely known but common knowledge) does behavior change. Behavior changes rapidly for two reasons. First\, the more people care about the actions of others\, the more people are locked in with each other and the longer the old behavior persists\, even as it grows more fragile. Second\, learning about a change in fundamentals happens gradually\, but simple models illustrate that learning about the knowledge of others occurs rapidly. In other words\, metaknowledge substantially lags knowledge but when it increases\, it increases very rapidly. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/explaining-the-rapidity-of-social-change/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180511T000000
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SUMMARY:REP Workshop - Hahrie Han
DESCRIPTION:REP Workshop – Hahrie Han  \nDateMay 6\, 2016 \nTime4:00pm to 5:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/rep-workshop-hahrie-han/
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SUMMARY:Ecochella!
DESCRIPTION:Ecochella!  \nDateMay 6\, 2016 \nTime3:30pm to 9:00pm \nLocation \nContact \nEcochella is a student-run\, bike-powered music and sustainability festival at UCLA that aims to educate and engage students on current strides in green innovation. Join us on May 6th for music\, biking\, yoga\, food\, free goodies and more! First 200 attendees will get a free Tender Greens tote bag (#totescute)! Be sure to RSVP to our Facebook Event! and sign up to bike and/or volunteer here! \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/ecochella/
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SUMMARY:Courts After Conflict
DESCRIPTION:Courts After Conflict \nDateMay 9\, 2014 \nTime7:00am to 8:30am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nCan legal institutions maintain impartiality in the face of violent ethnic conflict? Can a steep decline in the intensity of violence help restore impartiality to ethnically biased courts? How persistent are the effects of violence? Given the ubiquity of ethnic conflicts in the past half century\, understanding the institutional and cultural legacies of conflict seems vital. This paper studies ethnic bias in the legal system using decisions made by Arab and Jewish judges in Israeli courts. Data on conflict-related fatalities allow us to relate the extent of the bias to the court’s and the judge’s history of exposure to ethnic violence. In Shayo and Zussman (2011) we found that during the conflict of 2000–2004 (the Second Palestinian Intifada) judges exhibited a significant degree of ethnic ingroup bias which was strongly associated with the recent intensity of violence around the court. The present paper asks whether the drop in violence in subsequent years (2007–2010) was accompanied by attenuation in ethnic bias. We find no evidence of such attenuation at the country level. Judicial bias remains positively associated with past exposure to violence\, but the association weakens over time and courts seem to converge toward a relatively high level of bias. To the extent that we see a persistent local effect of exposure to violence\, it operates at the institutional (court) level rather than at the individual (judge) level. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/courts-after-conflict/
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SUMMARY:Recruitment Job Talk with Ami Pedahzur
DESCRIPTION:Recruitment Job Talk with Ami Pedahzur \nDateMay 7\, 2015 \nTime12:00pm to 1:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Ami Pedahzur\, University of Texas at AustinTitle: “Bureaucratic Commandos: The Rise of Israel’s Special Operations Forces”About the Speaker:Ami Pedahzur is Professor of Government — and Arnold S. Chaplik Professor in Israel and Diaspora Studies  — at the University of Texas\, Austin. He is also the founding director of the Institute for Israel Studies at The Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies. His most recent book is: The Triumph of Israel’s Radical Right\, published in 2012 by Oxford University Press\, and he is currently working on the next\, entitled: Military Entrepreneurs and the Evolution of Israel’s Special Operations Forces. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/recruitment-job-talk-with-ami-pedahzur/
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SUMMARY:BRAZIL'S CURRENT POLITICAL CRISIS:
DESCRIPTION:BRAZIL’S CURRENT POLITICAL CRISIS: \nDateMay 4\, 2016 \nTime4:00pm to 5:30pm \nLocation\nUCLA Public Affairs Bldg #4357 \nContact \nFeaturing Panelists:William Summerhill\, Professor of History\, UCLABarbara Geddes\, Professor of Political Science\, UCLARoberto Véras de Oliveira\, Associate Professor at Federal University of ParaíbaManoel Gehrke\, PhD student in Political Science at UCLAModerator:  Fabrício M. Fialho\, PhD Candidate\, Political Science\, UCLA \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/brazils-current-political-crisis/
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SUMMARY:Dynamic Coalitions
DESCRIPTION:Dynamic Coalitions \nDateMay 7\, 2014 \nTime8:00am to 10:00am \nLocation\n4276 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/dynamic-coalitions/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180507T000000
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SUMMARY:IR Workshop - Andrew Bertoli\, USC
DESCRIPTION:IR Workshop – Andrew Bertoli\, USC \nDateMay 1\, 2017 \nTime3:00pm to 4:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nAbstract:Does nationalism make interstate conflict more likely? I tackle this question by analyzing one of the most powerful sources of nationalism in the modern era—international sports. I first investigate several cases where surges of nationalism from sporting events led to military or political conflict between countries. I then analyze a regression discontinuity created by the format of the World Cup qualification process from 1958 to 2010. The results provide strong evidence that World Cup nationalism increases state aggression\, especially for countries where soccer is the most popular sport.  \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/ir-workshop-andrew-bertoli-usc/
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SUMMARY:International Relations Workshop with Aila Matanock
DESCRIPTION:International Relations Workshop with Aila Matanock \nDateMay 4\, 2015 \nTime12:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Aila Matanock\, UC BerkeleyTitle: “International Insurance: Explaining Electoral Participation Provisions in Peace Agreement Design”Abstract:Peace agreement design is a crucial component of conflict termination\, but how do combatants choose which provisions to center these settlements on? In particular\, “electoral participation provisions” . . . for post-conflict elections in which militant group and government parties [both] participate — have become prevalent in peace agreements. But elections potentially complicate dividing or sharing power\, while often failing to usher in democracy in these contexts. Why are they chosen? I propose that international involvement is crucial. I consider several ways in which it may make these electoral participation provisions desirable\, including a novel theory which\, under the right conditions\, these provisions help combatants credibly commit to mutually beneficial settlements. The mechanism relies on electoral processes as coordinating cycles that ease enforcement — detecting and increasing the cost of noncompliance with the agreement for both sides — especially as international actors involve themselves in democracy promotion programs. Analysis of new quantitative evidence on peace agreement design shows the expected relationships with proxies for these expectations of external engagement\, and additional qualitative evidence from Guatemala demonstrates the anticipated mechanism. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/international-relations-workshop-with-aila-matanock/
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SUMMARY:Entrepreneurship\, the Electoral Connection\, and Office Location: Estimating the Electoral Connection by Designing Stronger Instruments
DESCRIPTION:Entrepreneurship\, the Electoral Connection\, and Office Location: Estimating the Electoral Connection by Designing Stronger Instruments \nDateMay 5\, 2014 \nTime5:00am to 6:30am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nBoth political science scholars as well as House members believe that being an effective representation will be electorally rewarded. In this paper we investigate the extent to which there exists an electoral connection with respect to legislative entrepreneurship. Using the freshmen House office lottery as an instrumental variable\, we find little evidence that voters reward entrepreneurship (despite the observational evidence to the contrary) and discuss how methods designed to strengthen instrumental variables are appropriate in this context. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/entrepreneurship-the-electoral-connection-and-office-location-estimating-the-electoral-connection-by-designing-stronger-instruments/
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SUMMARY:REP Workshop - Paulina Ochoa Espejo
DESCRIPTION:REP Workshop – Paulina Ochoa Espejo \nDateApril 29\, 2016 \nTime4:00pm to 6:00pm \nLocation\n4357  Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/rep-workshop-paulina-ochoa-espejo/
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SUMMARY:REP Workshop - Davin Phoenix\, UC Irvine
DESCRIPTION:REP Workshop – Davin Phoenix\, UC Irvine  \nDateApril 24\, 2017 \nTime3:00pm to 4:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nAbstract:Extant political psychology literature provides a framework for understanding how the emotion state of anger both activated the racial attitudes of white Americans and mobilized them toward greater electoral activity during the contentious 2016 election. Absent from this literature\, however\, is an account of how anger is engendered and translates to political behavior among racial outgroup members themselves. I seek to fill this gap by uncovering the racial differences in the antecedents of anger for Black and White Americans. Additionally\, I examine differences in the mobilizing influence of anger among Blacks and Whites. I present findings from the 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS) that illuminate the manners in which anger was activated and leveraged toward distinct political actions among Blacks and Whites. Contending with the intersection of race and emotions in politics advances our understanding of how the racially divisive political climate shapes the mobilization and political behavior of the distinct racial/ethnic groups making up an increasingly diverse electorate. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/rep-workshop-davin-phoenix-uc-irvine/
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SUMMARY:CP Workshop - John Ahlquist\, UC San Diego
DESCRIPTION:CP Workshop – John Ahlquist\, UC San Diego  \nDateApril 24\, 2017 \nTime12:30pm to 2:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nAbstract:How do international monetary and financial shocks influence domestic politics? Taking advantage of a surprise revaluation of the Swiss franc in early 2015\, we examine the policy preferences and voting behavior of individuals particularly exposed to this event in Poland: holders of mortgages denominated in foreign currency. Using original survey data collected prior to the 2015 Polish parliamentary elections\, we show that the material economic interests of this group strongly influenced their preferences over proposed policy responses to the shock. Their preference for a generous resolution scheme then translated into distinct voting behavior. Among former government voters\, Swiss franc borrowers were more likely to desert the government. The evidence suggests that the PiS used the CHF mortgage issue opportunistically to build a winning electoral coalition that included not only its core populist constituencies\, but also a subgroup of voters materially affected by the shock who were otherwise unlikely to support the party. Our analysis demonstrates that international financial shocks can influence domestic politics through multiple channels. For individuals and households with clear\, well-defined material interests\, such shocks strongly and directly influence policy preferences and voting behavior. At the same time\, parties and candidates can also exploit such shocks for broader political effect\, using them as focal points to appeal to a larger populist coalition of voters.  \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/cp-workshop-john-ahlquist-uc-san-diego/
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SUMMARY:CP Workshop - Laura Paler
DESCRIPTION:CP Workshop – Laura Paler \nDateApril 25\, 2016 \nTime12:30pm to 2:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nAbstract:While there is a growing literature on the determinants of ex-combatant reintegration\, few studies have examined why former combatants turn to criminal activity following demobilization. This paper investigates the economic\, security\, psychological\, and social determinants of criminality among demobilized combatants in Colombia. We combine confidential administrative data with original survey data from a representative sample of ex-combatants in and out of prison and employ techniques for eliciting honest responses to sensitive questions on surveys. Our results reveal no support for a predominant explanation that economic vulnerability drives ex-combatants into crime\, showing instead a strong relationship between conflict networks and criminality. We also shed light on why conflict networks correlate with crime\, finding that they explain both individual and group crime; that ties to both peers and commanders matter; and that status-seeking and susceptibility to pressure are plausible mechanisms. The results provide some of the first quantitative evidence of the relative importance of conflict networks vis-a-vis other explanations for ex-combatant criminality\, with important implications for the design of reintegration interventions. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/cp-workshop-laura-paler/
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SUMMARY:AP Workshop - Robert Van Houweling
DESCRIPTION:AP Workshop – Robert Van Houweling \nDateApril 25\, 2016 \nTime3:00pm to 5:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/ap-workshop-robert-van-houweling/
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SUMMARY:Comparative Politics Workshop with David Laitin
DESCRIPTION:Comparative Politics Workshop with David Laitin \nDateApril 27\, 2015 \nTime12:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:David Laitin\, Stanford UniversityTitle: “Language Policy and Human Development”Abstract:[We] explore how language policy affects the socio-economic development of nation-states through two channels: the individual’s exposure to and (in reference to an individual’s mother tongue) linguistic distance from the official language. In a cross-country framework\, we first establish a robust and sizeable negative relationship between an official language that is distant from the local indigenous languages and proxies for human capital and health. To establish this relationship as causal\, we instrument language choice with a measure of geographic distance from the origins of writing. Next\, using individual-level data from India and a set of twelve African countries\, we provide micro-empirical support on the two channels — distance to the official language and exposure — and their implications for educational\, health\, occupational and wealth outcomes. Finally\, we present narrative evidence on why\, given the welfare implications of language policy\, postcolonial elites have sustained inefficient policies.Paper:Click here to download. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/comparative-politics-workshop-with-david-laitin/
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SUMMARY:American Politics Workshop with Cheryl Boudreau
DESCRIPTION:American Politics Workshop with Cheryl Boudreau \nDateApril 27\, 2015 \nTime4:00pm to 5:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Cheryl Boudreau\, UC DavisTitle:”Racial or Spatial Voting?  The Effects of Candidate Ethnicity and Ethnic Group Endorsements in Low-Information Elections”Abstract:Voters face difficult choices in elections where party labels do not distinguish the candidates’ ideological positions. In these contexts\, racial/ethnic cues may help voters to choose ideologically-similar candidates (spatial voting)\, or make choices based on race/ethnicity (racial voting). In most elections\, these behaviors are observationally equivalent because race/ethnicity and ideology are strongly correlated (i.e.\, minority candidates and voters are typically more liberal than whites). We disentangle racial and spatial voting by examining local elections where this is not the case. Using original surveys and exit polls\, we create comparable measures of candidate and voter ideology and examine how race/ethnicity and ideology affect voters’ choices. We also embed experiments that manipulate ethnic group endorsements. We find that ideology powerfully shapes voters’ choices\, but that ethnic group endorsements diminish spatial voting. We also show that co-ethnic voters react favorably to endorsements from their group\, while whites’ reactions are driven by racial/ethnic stereotypes.About the Speaker:Cheryl Boudreau (Ph.D. 2007\, UC San Diego) is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California\, Davis.  Prof. Boudreau’s research examines whether and when different types of political information help uninformed voters to make political decisions that improve their welfare.  This information may come from trusted endorsers\, encouraging citizens to vote for a particular candidate or initiative\, or from politicians competing in a debate.  Citizens may also rely on the statements their peers make during discussions\, the opinions of the masses — as reflected in public opinion polls — or the detailed policy information contained in voter guides.  Using laboratory and survey experiments\, as well as observational studies\, her research sheds light on when these different types of information help uninformed voters to behave as though they are more informed. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/american-politics-workshop-with-cheryl-boudreau/
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SUMMARY:In Your Face Politics
DESCRIPTION:In Your Face Politics \nDateApril 28\, 2014 \nTime5:00am to 6:30am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nJournalists and academics regularly decry incivility in political discourse\, and public opinion polls suggest that average Americans share a similar disdain. Foundations and civic groups likewise fund initiatives to call attention to this problem. Even politicians themselves express concerns about uncivil discourse and its potential consequences. Nonetheless\, this near-universal condemnation does not appear to have affected the prevalence of political incivility. Moreover\, I am not convinced that the political advocates of today are necessarily any more uncivil than politicians of previous centuries. Nonetheless\, I am convinced that the way the American public experiences these uncivil exchanges has changed in important ways. “In Your Face Politics” explores the practical and historical consequences of televised politics that appears in our faces in two different respects: it is both uncivil and also has the appearance of close physical proximity. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/in-your-face-politics/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T000000
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SUMMARY:PT Workshop - Simone Chambers\, UC Irvine
DESCRIPTION:PT Workshop – Simone Chambers\, UC Irvine \nDateApril 21\, 2017 \nTime4:00pm to 6:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nAbstract:Deliberative democracy often includes an unrealistic ethical and/or psychological expectation that individuals be willing to revise their positions in light of counter arguments and alternative reasoning. Public reason advocates introduce an equally unrealistic standard of public debate when they insist that citizens and their representatives ought to be constrained by a duty of civility – a form of epistemic humility. Rather than revisability or publicness\, in this paper I introduce the weaker standard of criticizability. Criticizability is an attribute of utterances and is dependent on systemic features of the public sphere in which the utterances are made. It is not an ethical or psychological disposition. In stressing criticizability\, this model of deliberative democracy shifts the focus from speakers to audience in the public sphere. What becomes important is not whether individual speakers are willing to change their mind or suppress their deepest convictions it is whether those who hear them speak also hear the counter arguments and criticisms. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/pt-workshop-simone-chambers-uc-irvine/
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SUMMARY:REP Workshop - Paul Apostolidis
DESCRIPTION:REP Workshop – Paul Apostolidis \nDateApril 22\, 2016 \nTime4:00pm to 6:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/rep-workshop-paul-apostolidis/
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UID:2394-1524787200-1524787200@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Political Theory Workshop with Claudia Moatti
DESCRIPTION:Political Theory Workshop with Claudia Moatti \nDateApril 24\, 2015 \nTime4:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Claudia Moatti\, USC and Université Paris VIIIRespondent:Anthony Pagden\, UCLATitle: “Saving the City: Roman Ideas on the Permanence of the ‘Public Thing’”Abstract:At the end of the Roman Republic\, the issue of the permanence of the “public thing” is at the heart of the political struggle: “Save the city” (conservare civitatem or rem publicam) is the slogan of the senatorial elite. Under the Empire\, the expression is visible on coins and stones\, in many forms (re publica conservata\, ob cives servatos\, etc.). What is exactly meant by “saving”? How to ensure the permanence of a people or a city\, when everything dies on earth?  The question of the continuity and identity of a thing through time is an old philosophical issue; in Rome it is addressed in legal literature\, as well as in philosophical treatises and in political speeches. In this paper\, I will discuss some sources\, with an emphasis\, in the second part\, on the Dream of Scipio\, a section of Cicero’s “De Republica\,” which offers an original response to our questions and reveals the co-existence in that time of conflicting definitions of res publica.Paper:Click here to download. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/political-theory-workshop-with-claudia-moatti/
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UID:2315-1524787200-1524787200@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:A Symposium on Privacy and Security: UCLA Joins the National Debate
DESCRIPTION:A Symposium on Privacy and Security: UCLA Joins the National Debate \nDateApril 25\, 2014 \nTime9:30am to 5:00pm \nLocation\nUCLA School of Law \nContact \nTitle: “A Symposium on Privacy and Security: UCLA Joins the National Debate”Abstract: On Friday\, April 25 the UCLA Department of Political Science\, the UCLA School of Law\, and the Office of Information Technology brought together thought leaders to discuss critical privacy and security issues presented by ever-evolving technologies.For more information click here. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/a-symposium-on-privacy-and-security-ucla-joins-the-national-debate/
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UID:2309-1524787200-1524787200@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Hobbes and Natural Law in Context
DESCRIPTION:Hobbes and Natural Law in Context \nDateApril 25\, 2014 \nTime9:00am to 10:30am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEarly-to-mid-seventeenth century Englishmen (1620-51) debated and contested natural law within what I call the Pauline framework. After unearthing this framework\, I locate Hobbes’s account of natural law within it and discuss how this reading of Hobbesian natural law challenges many well received accounts of the meaning and significance of natural law in Hobbes’s Leviathan. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/hobbes-and-natural-law-in-context/
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UID:2560-1524700800-1524700800@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Life After Degree Panel
DESCRIPTION:Life After Degree Panel \nDateApril 26\, 2018 \nTime12:00pm to 2:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone (310)206-7558bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/life-after-degree-panel/
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UID:2218-1524700800-1524700800@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Test Event
DESCRIPTION:Test Event \nDateApril 24\, 2014 \nTime1:00pm \nLocation \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/test-event/
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UID:2219-1524700800-1524700800@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Test Event 2
DESCRIPTION:Test Event 2 \nDateApril 24\, 2014 \nTime1:00pm \nLocation \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/test-event-2/
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UID:2520-1524441600-1524441600@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:IR Workshop - Brandon Kinne\, UC Davis
DESCRIPTION:IR Workshop – Brandon Kinne\, UC Davis  \nDateApril 17\, 2017 \nTime3:00pm to 4:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nAbstract:Why do states join international organizations (IOs)? Cooperation theory offers a number of plausible answers to this question. However\, empirical analysis of IOs has not kept pace with theory. We identify three key limitations in existing empirical research on IO membership. First\, the units of analysis commonly used to model membership\, such as the country-year or dyad-year\, do not sufficiently distinguish between the attributes of states and the attributes of IOs. Not only do states select IOs\, but IOs also select states\, which necessitates careful attention to the attributes of each. Second\, empirical models generally ignore the “match quality” between countries and IOs\, implicitly assuming that all IOs are equally accessible to all countries. In practice\, many IOs are functionally off-limits to large numbers of states\, while others attract only certain types of states. Third\, although cooperation theorists have long argued that IO membership is partially influenced by social effects\, where the IO memberships of some states influence the memberships of others\, few empirical models incorporate social effects into the analysis. We address these limitations by modeling IO membership as a dynamic affiliation network. Using newly collected data at the state-IO level\, we build an inferential network model that addresses all three of the above limitations. The analysis shows that state-IO match quality and social effects are\, by far\, the primary determinants of IO membership.  \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/ir-workshop-brandon-kinne-uc-davis/
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UID:2393-1524441600-1524441600@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:International Relations Workshop with Barbara F. Walter
DESCRIPTION:International Relations Workshop with Barbara F. Walter \nDateApril 20\, 2015 \nTime12:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Barbara F. Walter\, UC San DiegoTitle: “The Logic of Rebel Strategies in Civil War”Abstract:[This] paper … is part of a book about rebel groups and how competition affects their behavior during civil wars. It starts from the observation that rebel groups often act quite differently from each other even when they are pursuing similar goals. I argue that the structure of the competitive environment in which rebel groups operate explains much about their behavior during civil war. The more competition rebel groups face from rival factions or potential factions\, the more attention they are likely to pay to the needs of the local population and the better and more benevolently they will govern. In addition\, the greater the competition\, the more likely rebel groups are to pursue strategies designed to deter and eliminate rivals. The particular characteristics of the competitive environment\, therefore\, could influence the behavior of rebel groups in important ways and could help explain the variation in rebel behavior across conflicts and over time.  About the Speaker:Barbara F. Walter (Ph.D. 1994\, Univ. of Chicago) is Professor of International Relations and Pacific Studies and Affiliated Faculty of Political Science at UCSD. She has also been a fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University\, the War and Peace Institute at Columbia University\, and the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University.  Prof. Walter is an expert on international security\, with emphasis on civil wars as well as and terrorism/counter-terrorism. Her current research interests include the organization and behavior of rebel groups during civil war\, as well as the rise of Islamic extremism. She is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships\, including awards from the National Science Foundation\, the Carnegie Corporation of New York\, and the Guggenheim and Smith Richardson Foundations.PaperClick here to download. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/international-relations-workshop-with-barbara-f-walter/
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UID:2310-1524441600-1524441600@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:A Vocation Unto Death: Mortality and Politics in Max Weber's Thought
DESCRIPTION:A Vocation Unto Death: Mortality and Politics in Max Weber’s Thought \nDateApril 21\, 2014 \nTime5:15am to 6:45am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nLibby Barringer is the 2011 recipient of the Swarr Price. In this paper I take up Max Weber’s familiar interpretation of disenchanted modernity and the problem it poses for meaningful life—and in particular Weber’s depiction of political life—from the less familiar perspective of the meaningfulness of death. By modeling meaningful\, modern death on the idealized soldier who serves on the field of battle\, Weber has attempted to push back the effects of a totally rationalized\, progressive understanding of life and death. Yet when contrasted to older models of soldierly death\, as seen in the model of the dying hero in Homer or the soldiers eulogized by Pericles\, reliance on this model in disenchanted modernity is revealed to have a price. This model of meaning\, which so heavily emphasizes individual conviction in the meaningfulness of service unto death\, exacerbates the tendency for political rivalry to become political war. Aside from a slim moment of the choice of which cause one is willing to die for\, it is not apparent that the meaningful life lived with soldierly devotion promotes any responsible accounting for the political—therefore potentially violent—consequences of one’s actions. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/a-vocation-unto-death-mortality-and-politics-in-max-webers-thought/
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