BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UCLA Political Science - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:UCLA Political Science X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for UCLA Political Science REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180430T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180430T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194935Z UID:2522-1525046400-1525046400@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180430T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180430T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194914Z UID:2468-1525046400-1525046400@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180430T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180430T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194914Z UID:2469-1525046400-1525046400@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180430T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180430T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194844Z UID:2395-1525046400-1525046400@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180430T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180430T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194844Z UID:2396-1525046400-1525046400@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180430T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180430T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194805Z UID:2308-1525046400-1525046400@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194936Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194936Z UID:2523-1524787200-1524787200@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194914Z UID:2467-1524787200-1524787200@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194843Z 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194810Z 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194805Z 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180426T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180426T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194949Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194949Z 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180426T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180426T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T182334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194800Z 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180426T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180426T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T182334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194800Z 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180423T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180423T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194934Z 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180423T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180423T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194843Z 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180423T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180423T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194805Z 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180423T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180423T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T182334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194759Z UID:2217-1524441600-1524441600@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Swarr Prize Lecture: Libby Barringer DESCRIPTION:Swarr Prize Lecture: Libby Barringer \nDateApril 21\, 2014 \nTime12:15pm to 1:45pm \nLocation \nContact \nUCLA Department of Political Scienceinvites you to the Speaker SeriespresentingLibby BarringerUCLA Political Science\, Ph.D. Candidatewho is the 2011 recipient ofThe Swarr Prize”A Vocation Unto Death: Mortality and Politics in Max Weber’s Thought” Monday\, April 21\, 201412:15 – 1:45 PM 4357 Bunche Hall ABSTRACT: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.Click here to download the paper. NOTE: the paper is password-protected\, please email Belinda Sunnu at bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu to obtain the password. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/swarr-prize-lecture-libby-barringer/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180420T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180420T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194913Z UID:2466-1524182400-1524182400@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:PT Workshop - Arash Davari DESCRIPTION:PT Workshop – Arash Davari \nDateApril 15\, 2016 \nTime4:00pm to 6:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/pt-workshop-arash-davari/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180418T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180418T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194806Z UID:2311-1524009600-1524009600@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Earning and Learning the Latino Vote: Campaign Effects in 2008 - 2012 DESCRIPTION:Earning and Learning the Latino Vote: Campaign Effects in 2008 – 2012 \nDateApril 16\, 2014 \nTime5:00am to 7:00am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nAmidst double digit unemployment in the Latino community\, Barack Obama nevertheless made substantial gains in the Latino vote in 2012. This project explores how candidates adapt and learn new strategies in targeted outreach from campaign to campaign. I argue that the Obama campaign drastically revised their 2008 strategy\, to embrace immigration as a campaign issue in 2012\, after seeing the strategy employed by Harry Reid in 2010\, and that Latino voters were in fact motivated by immigration claims in 2012\, unlike 2008. Using data from Latino Decisions surveys in 2008\, 2010\, 2012\, this project models Latino vote choice in presidential elections and demonstrates campaign strategy matters greatly and that successful campaigns are dynamic and evolve to best win over important voting blocs. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/earning-and-learning-the-latino-vote-campaign-effects-in-2008-2012/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180416T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180416T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194934Z UID:2517-1523836800-1523836800@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:CP Workshop - Arturas Rozenas\, New York University DESCRIPTION:CP Workshop – Arturas Rozenas\, New York University \nDateApril 10\, 2017 \nTime12:30pm to 2:00pm \nLocation\n6275 Bunche Hall (History Conference Room) \nContact \nAbstract:It is commonly believed that autocratic governments censor negative news and amplify positive news. We argue that such simplistic fact-censoring may have only a limited value when it comes to economic news\, because citizens can easily benchmark the official news against their own private perceptions. Instead of censoring facts about the domestic economy\, the government can preserve its good reputation in face an economic calamity by `bundling’ news in a way that assigns the responsibility for bad events to exogenous causes and positive events to the efforts of the government. Using a large corpus of daily news reports from three national television channels in Russia from 2000 to 2016\, we identify two empirical patterns that are consistent with this theoretical insight: First\, negative and positive economic events are reported at very similar rates on Russian state-owned television indicating no evidence of fact-censoring. Second\, negative news reports are more likely to implicate external factors\, especially global economic processes and Western governments\, but when the news are positive they are more likely to implicate the domestic government\, especially president Putin.  \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/cp-workshop-arturas-rozenas-new-york-university/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180416T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180416T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194934Z UID:2518-1523836800-1523836800@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:IR Workshop - Richard Steinberg\, UCLA DESCRIPTION:IR Workshop – Richard Steinberg\, UCLA \nDateApril 10\, 2017 \nTime3:00pm to 4:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nAbstract:This study examines how arrests of militia leaders pursuant to international criminal warrants have affected demobilization of Rwandan militias in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Hypotheses as to causes of demobilization were derived from the literature and interviews in Eastern Congo. Models based on those hypotheses were tested against a data set of all Rwandan combatants\, commanders\, dependents processed through UN-operated demobilization camps in the DRC from 2003-12. The models confirm that arrests are significantly and substantially related to increased demobilization. The models also confirm other factors significantly related to the rate of demobilization\, including: policies and events that increased or decreased military pressure on Rwandan militias; the UN’s mobile radio and leafleting “sensitization” campaign; and the rainy season. The findings show that decapitation by arrest may be a viable strategy for advancing peace by degrading a militia or other armed force\, particularly in patronage-based militias. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/ir-workshop-richard-steinberg-ucla/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180416T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180416T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194934Z UID:2519-1523836800-1523836800@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:AP Workshop - Robert Van Houweling\, UC Berkeley DESCRIPTION:AP Workshop – Robert Van Houweling\, UC Berkeley \nDateApril 10\, 2017 \nTime12:30pm to 2:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nAbstract:I formalize the intuition that legislators would prefer not to take roll calls that divide the median voter in their district from the median voter in their party’s primary electorate.  Such votes inevitably create a “smoking gun” that can be exploited by a primary or general election challenger\, giving incumbents an incentive to keep these roll calls off the agenda.  I also offer experimental evidence to support key assumptions made in the model.  The model offers an explanation for low majority roll rates and other types of majority gatekeeping rooted in individual‐level electoral incentives rather one rooted in than collective incentives and party discipline.   \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/ap-workshop-robert-van-houweling-uc-berkeley/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180416T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180416T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194913Z UID:2465-1523836800-1523836800@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:CP Workshop - Jennifer Pan DESCRIPTION:CP Workshop – Jennifer Pan \nDateApril 11\, 2016 \nTime12:30pm to 2:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/cp-workshop-jennifer-pan/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180416T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180416T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194842Z UID:2391-1523836800-1523836800@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Comparative Politics Workshop with Stephan Haggard DESCRIPTION:Comparative Politics Workshop with Stephan Haggard \nDateApril 13\, 2015 \nTime12:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Stephan M. Haggard\, UC San DiegoTitle: “Inequality\, Distributive Conflict and Reversions from Democracy during the Third Wave”About the Topic:This talk reports on findings from a book manuscript on inequality\, distributive conflict and regime change (co-authored with Robert Kaufman\, Rutgers Univ.). A cluster of formal models by Boix as well as Acemoglu and Robinson has advanced the idea that institutional change may be driven by underlying class conflicts. In particular\, democracy may be overthrown by elites challenged by democratic redistribution. We subject this theory to both quantitative and qualitative empirical test using a unique dataset on the presence or distributive conflict during the Third Wave. We find little evidence that inequality matters nor that distributive conflict is consequential for reversions from democratic rule. We emphasize\, rather\, a cluster of factors we label “weak democracy syndrome”: praetorian histories\, economic crises and the deeper problem of weak institutional constraints on the political process. About the Speaker:Stephan Haggard (Ph.D. 1983\, UC Berkeley) is Lawrence and Sallye Krause Professor of Korea-Pacific Studies\, Director of the Korea-Pacific Program\, and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at UC San Diego’s School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. He works on the political economy of developing countries — with a particular interest in Asia and on the Korean peninsula – and his current research focuses on the relationship between inequality\, democratization\, and authoritarianism in such countries.  Prof. Haggard has written extensively on the political economy of North Korea (with Marcus Noland)\, including Famine in North Korea: Markets\, Aid\, and Reform (2007) and Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea (2011).  He is also editor of the Journal of East Asian Studies and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/comparative-politics-workshop-with-stephan-haggard/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180416T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180416T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194842Z UID:2392-1523836800-1523836800@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:American Politics Workshop with Michael Tomz DESCRIPTION:American Politics Workshop with Michael Tomz \nDateApril 13\, 2015 \nTime3:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Michael Tomz\, Stanford UniversityTitle: “Political Repositioning: A Conjoint Analysis”Abstract: A persistent puzzle in contemporary American politics is the polarization of political officeholders. One possible cause is the two-stage electoral process in the United States\, which requires candidates to secure a nomination from their party prior to contesting a general election. We offer a theory of the costs that candidates incur when they change their positions on policy issues over time\, and consider how these costs will influence the strategic choices of candidates who enter the second stage of a two-stage election with divergent policy positions. We test our theory using a conjoint experimental design that presents subjects with a choice between two candidates who have a set of randomly assigned characteristics. These characteristics include the positions the candidates take on a policy issue in the current day and the positions that they took a year prior\, their party affiliations\, and a range of other electorally salient attributes. We administer our experiments on a national sample of 4\,200 adults. We find that repositioning brings substantial electoral costs across a range of policy issues. As a result of these costs\, public opinion must be running nearly 70-30 in favor of one side of an issue before politicians who previously took the other side of the issue will find it electorally optimal to switch their positions. Thus\, we conclude\, the electorate itself provides strong disincentives for politicians who enter a general election with divergent positions to moderate their stances and represent the views of the median voter.About the Speaker:Michael Tomz (Ph.D. 2001\, Harvard Univ.) is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University and a senior fellow at its Institute for Economic Policy Research as well as at the Stanford Center for International Development.  His research interests include political economy\, elections\, political opinion\, international relations\, and methodology.  His most recent book\, Reputation and International Cooperation: Sovereign Debt across Three Centuries was published by Princeton Univ. Press in 2007.  Another book\, on Political Repositioning (co-authored with Robert Van Houweling of UC Berkeley)\, is under contract\, also with Princeton.  \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/american-politics-workshop-with-michael-tomz/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180416T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180416T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194809Z UID:2312-1523836800-1523836800@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Eroded Unity and Clientele Migration. Explaining The Demise of the PRI Regime DESCRIPTION:Eroded Unity and Clientele Migration. Explaining The Demise of the PRI Regime \nDateApril 14\, 2014 \nTime5:15am to 6:45am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nSebastián Garrido de Sierra is the 2012 recipient of The Swarr Prize. Abstract: This paper offers a new explanation of the demise of the PRI regime. I argue that by late 1995 the PRI was able to remain as Mexico’s dominant party because its elite still had strong incentives to remain united. This\, in turn\, allowed the party to maintain the control over its unparalleled clientelistic machine\, and\, consequently\, to keep its advantage over voters’ mobilization in order to win elections. The 1996 electoral reform drastically transformed this situation. By changing the structure of incentives for many PRI faction leaders\, the reform triggered the rapid erosion of this party’s elite unity\, leading to the migration of experienced cadres and the valuable clientelistic machines under their control to other parties. This soon translated into significant electoral defeats for the PRI\, including the loss of the presidency in 2000. Using evidence of two new datasets\, the statistical results indicate that the 1996 reform increased almost four times the probability that a mid- or high-ranked PRI member defected the party\, even after controlling for socioeconomic levels\, economic performance and\, importantly\, the PRI’s electoral results in the previous state and federal elections. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/eroded-unity-and-clientele-migration-explaining-the-demise-of-the-pri-regime/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180413T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180413T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194809Z UID:2314-1523577600-1523577600@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Democratic Peace and the Wisdom of Crowds: A Theory and Experimental Evidence of Collective Intelligence in Ultimatum Bargaining DESCRIPTION:Democratic Peace and the Wisdom of Crowds: A Theory and Experimental Evidence of Collective Intelligence in Ultimatum Bargaining \nDateApril 11\, 2014 \nTime8:00am to 9:30am \nLocation\n11377 Bunche Hall \nContact \nThe well-established democratic peace finding that there are few\, if any\, clear cases of war between mature democratic states has generated a great deal of scholarly interest. In this paper\, we propose a new theory for the democratic peace that highlights a previously unexplored advantage that democracies may have in crisis bargaining. Specifically\, we argue that the diverse collection of independently-deciding individuals characteristic of democratic states is likely to produce better\, more accurate predictions about the reservation price (i.e. the capabilities and resolve) of an opponent than individual leaders or even military experts in situations of ultimatum bargaining. As a result of this collective intelligence\, we expect that bargaining with a group of diverse decision-makers will fail less often. In order to test these expectations and distinguish our mechanism from existing theories of the democratic peace\, we use experimental data where subjects engage in multi-round ultimatum bargaining games. We compare the performance of offers from individuals to the performance of aggregated offers from diverse groups of individuals. We find strong support for the idea that collective decision-making decreases the likelihood of bargaining failure. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/democratic-peace-and-the-wisdom-of-crowds-a-theory-and-experimental-evidence-of-collective-intelligence-in-ultimatum-bargaining/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180409T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180409T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194841Z UID:2390-1523232000-1523232000@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:International Relations Workshop with Christina Schneider DESCRIPTION:International Relations Workshop with Christina Schneider \nDateApril 6\, 2015 \nTime12:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Christina Schneider\, UC San DiegoTitle: “The Globalization of Electoral Politics in the European Union”Abstract: [The author] analyzes the globalization of electoral politics in the European Union (EU)\, arguing that the integration of policies in areas that affect everyday life has globalized electoral politics. If the welfare of domestic publics has become more dependent on interactions at the European level\, then this should have had effects on the attractiveness of electoral strategies at the European level as well. Governments should have begun to shift electoral politics into the European arena. National elections can affect both the unilateral and collective bargaining behavior of EU governments in the European Union. First\, she analyzes how domestic elections affect EU governments’ foreign policies towards the EU (that is\, their unilateral bargaining behavior within the EU)\, and how it affects the bargaining dynamics in the EU (that is\, their collective bargaining behavior within the EU) in order to shed more light on the conditions under which national elections allow governments to either influence negotiation outcomes or to defer negotiation outcomes until after the election. Second\, she analyzes the effect of EU decision-making on domestic support for EU governments. Empirically\, she presents the results of almost ten years of qualitative and quantitative research on the domestic electoral politics of international cooperation in the European Union. Using a number of different data sources on budgetary and legislative decision making allows for analysis of the relationship between European cooperation and national elections from various different angles.About the Speaker:Christina J. Schneider (Ph.D. 2006\, Univ. of Konstanz) is Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair in the Department of Political Science at UC San Diego. Her research interests are in the fields of international and comparative political economy\, distributional conflict\, international organizations (with a focus on European politics)\, and applied methodology. Prof. Schneider’s work has appeared in the British Journal of Political Science\, Journal of Conflict Resolution\, Public Choice\, the Journal of European Public Policy\, and elsewhere. Her book\, Conflict\, Negotiation and European Union Enlargement\, was published by Cambridge Univ. Press in 2009. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/international-relations-workshop-with-christina-schneider/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180405T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180405T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T165643 CREATED:20180830T194809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194809Z UID:2313-1522886400-1522886400@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Popular Tyranny and Athenian Democracy DESCRIPTION:Popular Tyranny and Athenian Democracy \nDateApril 3\, 2014 \nTime10:00am to 11:50am \nLocation\nHillel Center\, Gindi Dining Room (2nd Floor); 574 Hilgard Avenue\, Los Angeles\, CA 90025 \nContact \nMy task in this paper is to consider whether the Athenian democracy of the late fifth century BCE can be described as “popular sovereignty.” Both terms are problematic. The term “popular” when applied to Athenian politics is the more famously fraught in our day\, as we are sensitive to some of the limitations on who counted as part of the political people\, that is who was included in or excluded from the body of citizenrulers. Applying the term “sovereignty” to the situation of classical Athens troubles a more specialized audience. The problem here is straightforward: sovereignty seems embedded in a later historical period\, when the paradigmatic political unit is the nation state and the term – born from an attempt to articulate and reinforce the absolute authority of the king\, and then transferred to the people who depose him – refers to the ruling power of a state being unitary\, authoritative\, and above all supreme. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/popular-tyranny-and-athenian-democracy/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR