Do Legislator Positions Affect Constituent Voting Decisions in U.S. House Elections? DateMarch 3, 2014 Time4:00am to 5:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact The 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. […]

Comparative Politics Workshop with Edmund Malesky DateMarch 2, 2015 Time12:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter: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, […]

AP Workshop - Daniel Butler DateFebruary 29, 2016 Time3:00pm to 5:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:

CP Workshop - Avidit Acharya DateFebruary 29, 2016 Time12:30pm to 2:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:

CP Workshop - Dominik Hangartner, London School of Economics DateFebruary 27, 2017 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract: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 […]

PT Workshop - Clarissa Hayward DateMarch 1, 2016 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:

Lecture - Attention as a Cultural Problem DateMarch 3, 2016 Time7:30pm Location UCLA Law School Building, Room 1447 Contact Matthew Crawford’s lecture is free and open to all.  No RSVP is required.Light refreshments will be available. Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:

Irony and Its Politics in Civil Rights Historiography DateMarch 7, 2014 Time8:00am to 9:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact This 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. […]

Energy, War, and Peace DateMarch 7, 2014 Time7:00am to 8:30am Location 11377 Bunche Hall Contact Is 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 […]

Seminar - Francois Furet on the Revolutionary Passion DateMarch 5, 2016 Time10:30am to 12:30pm Location Haines Hall, Room 110 Contact Matthew 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 […]