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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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SUMMARY:AP Workshop - Marisa Abarjano
DESCRIPTION:AP Workshop – Marisa Abarjano \nDateMarch 28\, 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-marisa-abarjano/
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SUMMARY:Instruction begins\, March 30\, 2015 – Monday
DESCRIPTION:Instruction begins\, March 30\, 2015 – Monday \nDateMarch 30\, 2015 \nTime6:00am \nLocation \nContact \nInstruction begins\, March 30\, 2015 – Monday \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/instruction-begins-march-30-2015-monday/
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SUMMARY:Economic Shocks and Civic Engagement: Evidence from the 2010-11 Pakistan Floods
DESCRIPTION:Economic Shocks and Civic Engagement: Evidence from the 2010-11 Pakistan Floods \nDateMarch 31\, 2014 \nTime5:00am to 6:30am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nHow countries transition from autocracy to democracy is a key question in both economics and political science. A number of recent studies have examined links between natural disasters and democratization. Using diverse data sources we show that the massive 2010-11 Pakistan floods had no persistent economic impact\, but that Pakistanis living in flood-affected places became significantly more politically engaged than their unaffected peers: they turned out to vote at substantially higher rates in subsequent elections\, acquired greater political knowledge\, and developed more aggressive attitudes about demanding services. These results call into question the interpretation of a broad set of papers and tie into a rich literature in political economy showing that disasters can have complicated political consequences beyond their economic impacts. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/economic-shocks-and-civic-engagement-evidence-from-the-2010-11-pakistan-floods/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180328T000000
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SUMMARY:Spring Quarter begins\, March 25\, 2015 – Wednesday
DESCRIPTION:Spring Quarter begins\, March 25\, 2015 – Wednesday \nDateMarch 25\, 2015 \nTime6:00am \nLocation \nContact \nSpring Quarter begins\, March 25\, 2015 – Wednesday \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/spring-quarter-begins-march-25-2015-wednesday/
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SUMMARY:Winter Quarter ends\, March 20\, 2015 – Friday
DESCRIPTION:Winter Quarter ends\, March 20\, 2015 – Friday \nDateMarch 20\, 2015 \nTime6:00am \nLocation \nContact \nWinter Quarter ends\, March 20\, 2015 – Friday \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/winter-quarter-ends-march-20-2015-friday/
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SUMMARY:Social Sciences Faculty Search Job Talk - Aram Hur\, New York University
DESCRIPTION:Social Sciences Faculty Search Job Talk – Aram Hur\, New York University  \nDateMarch 16\, 2017 \nTime2:00pm to 4:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nCitizen Duty and the Ethical Power of Communities: Evidence from East Asia \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/social-sciences-faculty-search-job-talk-aram-hur-new-york-university/
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SUMMARY:A Theory of Vagueness Relevant to Prestige and Moral Taboos
DESCRIPTION:A Theory of Vagueness Relevant to Prestige and Moral Taboos \nDateMarch 19\, 2014 \nTime8:00am to 10:00am \nLocation\n4276 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/a-theory-of-vagueness-relevant-to-prestige-and-moral-taboos/
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SUMMARY:REP Workshop - Melissa Michelson\, Menlo College
DESCRIPTION:REP Workshop – Melissa Michelson\, Menlo College  \nDateMarch 13\, 2017 \nTime3:00pm to 4:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nThe speaker\, Melissa Michelson will be presenting from her new book. Click here for a preview of the book. It describes three of the 17 experiments in the book\, focusing on football fan identity. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/rep-workshop-melissa-michelson-menlo-college/
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SUMMARY:CP Workshop - Cyrus Samii\, New York University
DESCRIPTION:CP Workshop – Cyrus Samii\, New York University  \nDateMarch 13\, 2017 \nTime12:30pm to 2:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nAbstract:We use a cluster-randomized field experiment to study two strategies to promote free democratic expression among rural voters in Liberia’s 2011 general election. The context is one of a fragile state in which destructive legacies of Liberia’s 1989-2003 civil war continue to dominate people’s lives. A nine-month civic education intervention administered by Liberian civil society organization partners provided training on election procedures and a forum for monthly discussion of governance issues. A nine-month security committee intervention administered in partnership with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Liberia provided a forum for villagers and international peacekeepers to discuss security threats and develop violence early warning and reaction procedures\, with the aim of improving citizens’ perceptions of security during the election. We evaluate these programs’ effects on actual voter behavior in addition to surveyed attitudes. We find that civic education increased enthusiasm for electoral participation\, produced a coordinated shift from parochial to national candidates\, and increased willingness to report on manipulation. A program combining the two interventions had similar effects. The security committees produced a modest reduction in parochial voting. The policy implications are that third party actors can play a productive role in helping to overcome barriers to information\, voter coordination\, and security.Full paper can be found here \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/cp-workshop-cyrus-samii-new-york-university/
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SUMMARY:Lecture - Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Lecture – Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis \nDateMarch 10\, 2016 \nTime7:30pm \nLocation\nUCLA Law School Building\, Room 1447 \nContact \nProfessor Putnam’s lecture is free and open to all.  No RSVP is required.Light refreshments will be available. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/lecture-our-kids-the-american-dream-in-crisis/
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SUMMARY:U HEARD IT HERE
DESCRIPTION:U HEARD IT HERE \nDateMarch 13\, 2018 \nTime6:30pm to 9:00pm \nLocation\nFowler Museum at UCLA\, Lenart Auditorium Self-pay parking available in Structure 4 \nContact \nBarbara Geddes Professor and Chair\, UCLA Department of Political Science   invites you to attend  The Rise and Fall of Trump’s PopulismJoshua Green Author of Devil’s Bargain and senior national correspondent for Bloomberg Businessweek in conversation with  Sasha Issenberg UC Regents’ Professor and author of The Victory Lab  hosted byLynn Vavreck Marvin Hoffenberg Professor of American Politics Professor\, UCLA Department of Political Science   Tuesday\, March 13\, 2018 6:30 p.m.Fowler Museum at UCLA\, Lenart Auditorium Self-pay parking available in Structure 4Click to RSVPAbout the Series The UCLA Department of Political Science is proud to present the series “U Heard it Here.” The series is dedicated to exploring a deeper understanding of politics and contemporary issues. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/u-heard-it-here-2/
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SUMMARY:REP Workshop - Traci Burch\, Northwestern University
DESCRIPTION:REP Workshop – Traci Burch\, Northwestern University  \nDateMarch 6\, 2017 \nTime3:00pm to 4:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nAbstract:This article explores the effects of policing (measured by police- and citizen-initiated stops of pedestrians and cars) on voter turnout for the 2012 general election in St. Louis\, Missouri.  This is the first paper of its kind to explore the effects of policing at the precinct level using administrative data on both pedestrian and traffic stops and using administrative data on voting and vote choice.  The analysis shows that more frequent contact with police is associated with decreased voter turnout in the precinct: voter turnout is lower in precincts where greater numbers of citizens are checked by police even after controlling for other potentially confounding characteristics like racial and socioeconomic demographics of the community\, crime rates\, and the presence of mobilizing organizations like churches. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/rep-workshop-traci-burch-northwestern-university/
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SUMMARY:CP Workshop - Dorothy Kronick\, University of Pennsylvania
DESCRIPTION:CP Workshop – Dorothy Kronick\, University of Pennsylvania  \nDateMarch 6\, 2017 \nTime12:30pm to 2:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nAbstract:What is the political logic of dual exchange rates? Governments often invoke a populist justification\, arguing that dual exchange rates protect the prices of imported consumer goods. But critics charge that dual exchange rates do little to protect consumer prices\, instead creating arbitrage opportunities for powerful elites. We develop a model of the government’s tradeoff between these two constituencies (consumers vs. arbitrageurs). We then estimate the parameters of the model with an original firm-level data set from Venezuela\, where\, between 2003 and 2012\, the government used dual exchange rates to subsidize approximately 215 billion dollars of imports at a fiscal cost of more than 100 billion.  We find that the government rationed access to official-rate currency as if it valued importers nearly as much as consumers. Together with qualitative evidence\, we interpret these findings as evidence that importers provided the government with essential political support.Full paper can be found here \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/cp-workshop-dorothy-kronick-university-of-pennsylvania/
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SUMMARY:American Politics Workshop with Justin Grimmer
DESCRIPTION:American Politics Workshop with Justin Grimmer \nDateMarch 9\, 2015 \nTime3:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Justin Grimmer\, Stanford UniversityTitle: “The Impression of Influence”About the Speaker:Justin Grimmer (Ph.D. 2010\, Harvard) is Associate Professor of Political Science at Stanford. His research uses new statistical methods to examine how representation occurs in American politics. His first book\, Representational Style in Congress: What Legislators Say and Why It Matters (Cambridge University Press\, 2013) shows how senators define the type of representation they provide to constituents and how this affects constituents’ evaluations.  A second book examining legislators’ credit-taking communications use is forthcoming.  Prof. Grimmer’s work has appeared in the American Political Science Review\, American Journal of Political Science\, Journal of Politics\, Political Analysis\, and others. During the 2013-2014 academic year he was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institute.Abstract:Constituents often fail to hold their representatives accountable for federal spending decisions — even though those very choices have a pervasive influence on American life. Why does this happen? Breaking new ground in the study of representation\, The Impression of Influence (Princeton Univ. Press\, 2014) demonstrates how legislators skillfully inform constituents with strategic communication and how this facilitates or undermines accountability. Using a massive collection of congressional texts and innovative experiments and methods\, the book shows how legislators create an impression of influence through credit claiming messages. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/american-politics-workshop-with-justin-grimmer/
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SUMMARY:International Relations Workshop with Emily Ritter
DESCRIPTION:International Relations Workshop with Emily Ritter \nDateMarch 9\, 2015 \nTime12:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Emily Ritter\, UC MercedTitle: “State Cooperation with International Criminal Tribunals: An Investigation of International Warrant Enforcement”About the Speaker:Emily Ritter (Ph.D. 2010\, Emory Univ.) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at UC Merced. Her research and teaching interests include international human rights institutions\, law\, and practice; domestic conflict between the state and citizen groups; international governance and legal institutions; and institutional solutions to bargaining and cooperation problems.  Prof. Ritter’s methodological approaches include game theoretic modeling as well as quantitative and qualitative methodology.  Prior to joining UC Merced\, she was a member of the faculty at Univ. of Alabama for three years.  Her work has appeared in Journal of Conflict Resolution\, Journal of Peace Research\, Journal of Politics\, and others.Abstract: International criminal tribunals (ICTs) cannot apprehend suspects\, and states hesitate to put forth costly effort to arrest those indicted for war crimes. Yet many suspects have been arrested or surrendered to ICTs of their own accord. Understanding why some suspects are arrested and others are not can illuminate why states wil cooperate with international justice more generally. We present a formal model of a suspect who surrenders or evades arrest and a state that devotes some level of effort to apprehension. We draw on this theory as well as interviews conducted at ICTs in the Hague to present international-\, state-\, and suspect-level expectations over when and how suspects are likely to surrender or be captured. We use these insights to model the time until capture or surrender in an event history framework\, utilizing newly collected data on all individuals indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).Paper:Click here to download. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/international-relations-workshop-with-emily-ritter/
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SUMMARY:Seminar - Francois Furet on the Revolutionary Passion
DESCRIPTION:Seminar – Francois Furet on the Revolutionary Passion \nDateMarch 5\, 2016 \nTime10:30am to 12:30pm \nLocation\nHaines Hall\, Room 110 \nContact \nMatthew Crawford is the author of the heavily praised books Shop Class as Soulcraftand The World Beyond Your Head.  He is a senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the University of Virginia and he fabricates parts for custom motorcycles in Richmond\, Virginia.  He received his Ph.D. in ancient political thought from the University of Chicago.———————People in the seminar will be sent and asked to read a chapter from Francois Furet’s celebrated book\, The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century\, and to be ready to participate in the conversation. A pizza lunch will be delivered following the seminar.The seminar is free and open to all\, but you must enroll in advance.  To do so\, send an email to Professor Lowenstein: lowenstein@law.ucla.edu \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/seminar-francois-furet-on-the-revolutionary-passion/
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SUMMARY:Energy\, War\, and Peace
DESCRIPTION:Energy\, War\, and Peace \nDateMarch 7\, 2014 \nTime7:00am to 8:30am \nLocation\n11377 Bunche Hall \nContact \nIs the Long Peace following 1945 a general decline of international war\, and if so\, what caused it? This paper explores how the shift to fossil fuel consumption following the Industrial Revolution fundamentally changed the political economy of war. I focus on what I call the Energy Revolution 1945-1973\, which was the greatest period of energy consumption growth in human history. In effect\, THE Energy Revolution divided the world into a gradually expanding set of states that are energy-modern and the rest that are energy-primitive. After 1945\, wars between energy-modern states virtually disappeared\, while wars within or involving energy-primitive states continued and even grew in severity. I seek to evaluate an energy-based explanation for these changes in the patterns of war against various competing and complementary explanations\, including the democratic peace\, selectorate theory\, and the nuclear revolution. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/energy-war-and-peace/
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