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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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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: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: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: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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SUMMARY:Irony and Its Politics in Civil Rights Historiography
DESCRIPTION:Irony and Its Politics in Civil Rights Historiography \nDateMarch 7\, 2014 \nTime8:00am to 9:30am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nThis paper is a draft section of my larger project\, which is an attempt to excavate and reconstruct the philosophical foundations of the recent historiographical debate over how to periodize and understand the civil rights movement. Drawing inspiration from narrativist philosophers of history\, including Hayden White\, I argue that attention to the ways in which histories are narratively emplotted\, using the insights of genre criticism\, is indispensible for the task of disclosing the evaluative\, ethical\, explanatory\, and aesthetic dimensions of historical narratives\, as they are constructed and circulated in history\, political theory\, public philosophy\, and the wider public. The exemplary stature of the civil rights movement in contemporary political thought draws largely\, I argue\, from romantic narrative tropes\, but these are being increasingly contested by counterveiling narrative forms. Here\, specifically\, I focus on what I call “ironic” emplotments of civil rights and African-American history and attempt to give an account of their emergence\, core explanatory and evaluative claims\, and imaginings of politics and political action. I then offer some criticisms of this form of historical imagination and its implications for politics. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/irony-and-its-politics-in-civil-rights-historiography/
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SUMMARY:Lecture - Attention as a Cultural Problem
DESCRIPTION:Lecture – Attention as a Cultural Problem  \nDateMarch 3\, 2016 \nTime7:30pm \nLocation\nUCLA Law School Building\, Room 1447 \nContact \nMatthew Crawford’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-attention-as-a-cultural-problem/
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SUMMARY:PT Workshop - Clarissa Hayward
DESCRIPTION:PT Workshop – Clarissa Hayward \nDateMarch 1\, 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-clarissa-hayward/
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SUMMARY:CP Workshop - Dominik Hangartner\, London School of Economics
DESCRIPTION:CP Workshop – Dominik Hangartner\, London School of Economics  \nDateFebruary 27\, 2017 \nTime12:30pm to 2:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nAbstract:Does exposure to the refugee crisis fuel anti-immigrant sentiment among natives and increase voting for extreme-right parties? Despite heated debates about the political repercussions of the refugee crisis in Europe\, there exists very little\, and sometimes conflicting\, evidence with which to assess the impact of a sudden and large influx of refugees on natives’ political attitudes and behavior. We provide new causal evidence from a natural experiment in Greece\, where some Aegean islands close to the Turkish border have experienced drastic increases in the number of Syrian and Iraqi refugees while other islands slightly farther away—but with otherwise similar institutional and socioeconomic characteristics—did not. Placebo tests suggest that pre-crisis trends in vote shares for exposed and non-exposed islands were virtually identical. This allows us to obtain unbiased estimates of the electoral consequences of the refugee crisis. Our study shows that among islands that faced a large inflow of refugees\, vote shares for Golden Dawn\, the most extreme-right party in Europe\, increased by 2 percentage points (a more than 40 percent increase at the average). This increase came at the expense of the main center-right party and by mobilizing additional voters. Our findings have implications for the theoretical understanding of the drivers of anti-immigrant sentiment and for the management of refugee flows.   \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/cp-workshop-dominik-hangartner-london-school-of-economics/
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SUMMARY:CP Workshop - Avidit Acharya
DESCRIPTION:CP Workshop – Avidit Acharya \nDateFebruary 29\, 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-avidit-acharya/
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SUMMARY:AP Workshop - Daniel Butler
DESCRIPTION:AP Workshop – Daniel Butler \nDateFebruary 29\, 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-daniel-butler/
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SUMMARY:Comparative Politics Workshop with Edmund Malesky
DESCRIPTION:Comparative Politics Workshop with Edmund Malesky \nDateMarch 2\, 2015 \nTime12:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Edmund Malesky\,  Duke UniversityTitle: “Participation in Legal Drafting and Compliance with Business Regulation: Evidence from Vietnam” About the Speaker:Edmund Malesky is Associate Professor of political economy\, and a specialist on Southeast Asia — particularly Vietnam. Currently\, his research agenda falls into three major categories: 1) authoritarian political institutions and their consequences; 2) the political influence of foreign direct investment and multinational corporations; and 3) political institutions\, private business development\, and formalization. Prof Malesky has published in leading political science and economic journals\, including the American Political Science Review and Journal of Politics\,  He also serves as the lead researcher for the Vietnam Provincial Competitiveness Index.Abstract:International development organizations invest millions of dollars each year into legislative participation campaigns in an effort to foster improved governance. This work has been undergirded theoretically by political scientists in the “deliberative democracy” tradition\, who argue that participation in the drafting of new rules\, through public comment periods\, provides information about citizens’ needs and preferences to government. Governments can then use this information\, they argue\, to make laws and regulations that will enjoy wider societal compliance.  Relatedly\, studies in psychology and organizational behavior indicate that individuals are more likely to follow rules they have had the opportunity to influence.  We propose that a similar dynamic between participation and compliance applies among businesses as well.  In this paper\, we first test this theory using survey data from an emerging economy\, where we find that a firm is more likely to comply with business regulations when it has participated in the design of the regulatory framework. Importantly\, however\, we find evidence that this relationship only holds when the firm sees government to be attentive to its input\, and that participation may actually be associated with less compliance when government is seen to be disinterested.   We note that our effort to test theory in this space still faces significant issues of selection bias\, and therefore discuss the design and preliminary results of our ongoing field experiment\, where we randomized opportunities for participation by small businesses in Vietnam to a forthcoming regulation on storage of hazardous chemicals.Pre-analysis Plan:Click here to download.Provincial Competitive Index:Click here to download. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/comparative-politics-workshop-with-edmund-malesky/
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SUMMARY:Do Legislator Positions Affect Constituent Voting Decisions in U.S. House Elections?
DESCRIPTION:Do Legislator Positions Affect Constituent Voting Decisions in U.S. House Elections? \nDateMarch 3\, 2014 \nTime4:00am to 5:30am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nThe theory of spatial voting has dominated recent scholarship on voting and elections. The spatial voting theory’s most important implication is that candidates’ ideological positions should influence voters’ decisions at the ballot box. However\, existing evidence shows a weak electoral connection between legislators and their constituents. We explain this puzzle using a new dataset with the policy ideal points and voting behavior of over 100\,000 Americans. We show that the spatial positions of legislators in the House of Representatives have a negligible impact on the decisions of most voters. Our results suggest that incumbent legislators face few electoral consequences for ideologically extreme positions. Legislators can take any spatial position that their partisan colleagues take with little electoral penalty in general elections. This paper provides an individual-level explanation for the lack of accountability we observe in the contemporary Congress\, a phenomenon that political science theory has had little success in explaining. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/do-legislator-positions-affect-constituent-voting-decisions-in-u-s-house-elections/
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SUMMARY:Seminar - Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale
DESCRIPTION:Seminar – Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale \nDateFebruary 27\, 2016 \nTime10:30am to 12:30pm \nLocation\nRoom to be announced \nContact \nEnrollees in the seminar will be asked to read Shakespeare’s play and 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-shakespeares-the-winters-tale/
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SUMMARY:PT Workshop - Farah Godrej\, UC Riverside
DESCRIPTION:PT Workshop – Farah Godrej\, UC Riverside  \nDateFebruary 24\, 2017 \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-farah-godrej-uc-riverside/
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