Political Theory Workshop with Claudia Moatti DateApril 24, 2015 Time4:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter: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 […]
REP Workshop - Paul Apostolidis DateApril 22, 2016 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:
PT Workshop - Simone Chambers, UC Irvine DateApril 21, 2017 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract: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 […]
In Your Face Politics DateApril 28, 2014 Time5:00am to 6:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Journalists 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 […]
American Politics Workshop with Cheryl Boudreau DateApril 27, 2015 Time4:00pm to 5:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter: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. […]
Comparative Politics Workshop with David Laitin DateApril 27, 2015 Time12:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter:David Laitin, Stanford UniversityTitle: “Language Policy and Human Development”Abstract: 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 […]
AP Workshop - Robert Van Houweling DateApril 25, 2016 Time3:00pm to 5:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:
CP Workshop - Laura Paler DateApril 25, 2016 Time12:30pm to 2:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract: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 […]
CP Workshop - John Ahlquist, UC San Diego DateApril 24, 2017 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract: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 […]
REP Workshop - Davin Phoenix, UC Irvine DateApril 24, 2017 Time3:00pm to 4:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract: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 […]
