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:20180302T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180302T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075814 CREATED:20180830T194839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194839Z UID:2383-1519948800-1519948800@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:International Law/IR Workshop with Karen Alter DESCRIPTION:International Law/IR Workshop with Karen Alter \nDateFebruary 27\, 2015 \nTime2:00pm to 3:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Karen Alter\, Northwestern Universitywith co-author Laurence Helfer\, Duke UniversityTitle: “Backlash Against International Courts in West\, East\, and Southern Africa: Causes and Consequences”Abstract:This paper discusses three efforts to restrict the jurisdiction of sub-regional courts by African governments in response to unwelcomed international judicial rulings. In West Africa\, the ECOWAS Court upheld allegations of torture by opposition journalists in the Gambia\, spurring an effort by the Gambia’s political leaders to restrict the Court’s power to review human rights complaints. In East Africa\, Kenya’s government attempted to eliminate the EACJ and to remove some of its judges after a decision challenging an election to a sub-regional legislature. In Southern Africa\, Zimbabwe sought to suspend the SADC Tribunal and strip private access rights after the Tribunal ruled in favor of white farmers in disputes over land seizures. We argue that variations in the mobilization efforts of community secretariats\, civil society groups and sub-regional parliaments explain why efforts to eliminate the three courts or narrow their jurisdiction were defeated in ECOWAS\, scaled back in the EAC\, and largely succeeded in SADC. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/international-law-ir-workshop-with-karen-alter/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180302T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180302T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075814 CREATED:20180830T194812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194812Z UID:2321-1519948800-1519948800@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud DESCRIPTION:Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud \nDateFebruary 28\, 2014 \nTime6:00am to 7:30am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nMost election fraud is not conducted centrally by incumbents but rather locally by a machinery consisting of hundreds of political operatives. How does an incumbent ensure that his local agents deliver fraud when needed and as much as is needed? We address this and related puzzles in the political organization of election fraud by studying the perverse consequences of two distinct incentive problems: the principal-agent problem between an incumbent and his local agents\, and the collective action problem among the agents. Using the global game methodology\, we show that these incentive problems result in a herd dynamic among the agents that tends to either oversupply or undersupply fraud\, rarely delivering the amount of fraud that would be optimal from the incumbent’s point of view. This equilibrium dynamic predicts overwhelming victories for incumbents that are punctuated by his rare but resounding defeats and it explains why incumbents who enjoy genuine popularity often engage in seemingly unnecessary fraud. An empirical analysis of precinct-level election results from Mexico (2000-2012)\, Ukraine (2004)\, and Russia (2011-2012) supports our key claims. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/deliver-the-vote-micromotives-and-macrobehavior-in-electoral-fraud/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180301T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180301T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075814 CREATED:20180830T194910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194910Z UID:2457-1519862400-1519862400@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Adam Berinsky - Rumors\, Truths and Reality: A Study of Political Misinformation DESCRIPTION:Adam Berinsky – Rumors\, Truths and Reality: A Study of Political Misinformation \nDateFebruary 25\, 2016 \nTime12:30pm to 2:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/adam-berinsky-rumors-truths-and-reality-a-study-of-political-misinformation/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180301T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180301T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075814 CREATED:20180830T194910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194910Z UID:2458-1519862400-1519862400@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Lecture - The Prince\, the Fat Man\, and the Staff: Shakespeare’s Henry IV DESCRIPTION:Lecture – The Prince\, the Fat Man\, and the Staff: Shakespeare’s Henry IV \nDateFebruary 25\, 2016 \nTime7:30pm \nLocation\nUCLA Law School Building\, Room 1447 \nContact \nProfessor Allen’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-the-prince-the-fat-man-and-the-staff-shakespeares-henry-iv/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180301T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180301T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075814 CREATED:20180830T194838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194838Z UID:2382-1519862400-1519862400@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:REP Workshop with Cristina Beltrán DESCRIPTION:REP Workshop with Cristina Beltrán \nDateFebruary 26\, 2015 \nTime12:00pm to 1:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Cristina Beltrán\, New York UniversityTitle: “Undocumented and Acting Up: Queering Sovereignty in the Immigrant Rights Movement”Abstract:[I draw] on the insights of queer theory to analyze the political practices of undocumented activists\, particularly those who identify now or in the past as DREAM activists. Rejecting the politics of shame and stigma\, DREAM activists (particularly queer DREAM activists) challenged the logic of secrecy surrounding sexuality and illegality by “coming out” and identifying themselves “undocumented and unafraid.”  While the practice of coming out has prompted various scholars to note the connections between immigration and LGBT politics\, I argue that what is most powerfully queer about undocumented youth activism has to do with its dual critiques of sovereignty\, state action\, and preventable death. Turning to writings on AIDS by Gil Cuadros and Douglas Crimp\, I explore the resonances between ACT UP’s critique of unnecessary fatalities due to government inaction and indifference to the AIDS crisis and the mass deaths occurring along the U.S.-Mexico border. At times characterized as less than human\, both “homosexuals with HIV/AIDS” and “illegals” are populations whose death and suffering are disregarded since the communities in question “brought this on themselves.” Faced with a dehumanizing logic that blames them for their own suffering\, gay and undocumented subjects must challenge a political culture more interested in simplistic accounts of individual action than complex analyses of global capitalism\, human desire\, and government failure. Both AIDS activists and the movement for undocumented rights have an ambivalent relationship to the state that seeks to expose government failure while trying to enlist the state’s resources. Analyzing achievements as well as setbacks\, I explore activists’ queer account of sovereignty\, particularly their efforts to gain state resources while simultaneously expressing ambivalence and despair regarding the state\, its leaders\, ideals\, and institutions.Co-sponsored by the Political Theory Workshop \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/rep-workshop-with-cristina-beltran/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180228T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180228T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075814 CREATED:20180830T194815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194815Z UID:2326-1519776000-1519776000@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Life After Degree Series DESCRIPTION:Life After Degree Series \nDateFebruary 26\, 2014 \nTime10:00am to 12:00pm \nLocation\nCareer Center\, 3rd Floor\, Conference Room \nContact \nLooking to explore ways to apply your degree to the professional world? Meet UCLA Political Science graduates and hear stories of how they leveraged their degree to launch a successful career in the law\, entertainment\, marketing\, finance\, education\, and non-profit industries! Looking to explore ways to apply your degree to the professional world? Meet UCLA Political Science graduates and hear stories of how they leveraged their degree to launch a successful career in the law\, entertainment\, marketing\, finance\, education\, and non-profit industries! \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/life-after-degree-series/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180228T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180228T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075814 CREATED:20180830T194812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194812Z UID:2320-1519776000-1519776000@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Choosing (All) Together DESCRIPTION:Choosing (All) Together \nDateFebruary 26\, 2014 \nTime7:00am to 9:00am \nLocation\n4276 Bunche Hall \nContact \nThis article provides a game theoretic analysis of group decision making\, investigating how agents’ communication behavior is affected by different voting systems. We show that in an ideal state where communication is noisy but agents can communicate without opportunity costs\, agents will always reach unanimous consensus regardless of which voting system governs the deliberative process. This is because agents anticipate their future agreement and hence\, in equilibrium\, communicate truthfully and vote sincerely. As a result\, the agents’ private information is aggregated efficiently\, making the deliberative process optimal. We further show that under the more realistic case in which communication involves opportunity costs\, voting systems shape agents’ communication behavior. Specifically\, when the opportunity costs of communication are low\, a voting system based on unanimity approximates the results of the ideal state. Conversely\, when communication involves high opportunity costs\, a voting system based on majority is more desirable. These results shed some lights on the rationale of institutions such as juries\, committees\, and large deliberative assemblies. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/choosing-all-together/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180226T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180226T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075814 CREATED:20180830T194949Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194949Z UID:2558-1519603200-1519603200@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Benjamin Lessing's Talk DESCRIPTION:Benjamin Lessing’s Talk \nDateFebruary 26\, 2018 \nTime12:00pm to 1:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone (310)206-7558bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPaper \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/benjamin-lessings-talk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180226T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180226T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075814 CREATED:20180830T194814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194814Z UID:2322-1519603200-1519603200@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Do Politicians Reward Their Supporters? Evidence from the Spatial Allocation of Constituency Development Fund Spending in Kenya DESCRIPTION:Do Politicians Reward Their Supporters? Evidence from the Spatial Allocation of Constituency Development Fund Spending in Kenya \nDateFebruary 24\, 2014 \nTime4:00am to 5:30am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nWe draw on data on the spatial allocation of more than 50\,000 constituency development fund projects in more than 200 electoral constituencies in Kenya to test leading theories of distributive politics. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/do-politicians-reward-their-supporters-evidence-from-the-spatial-allocation-of-constituency-development-fund-spending-in-kenya/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180223T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180223T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075814 CREATED:20180830T194948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194948Z UID:2557-1519344000-1519344000@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Paola Marrati's Talk DESCRIPTION:Paola Marrati’s Talk \nDateFebruary 23\, 2018 \nTime4:00pm to 6:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone (310)206-7558bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nA Voice’s of One’s Own. Cavell on Wittgenstein\, Emerson\, and Democracy \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/paola-marratis-talk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180223T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180223T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075814 CREATED:20180830T194907Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194907Z UID:2452-1519344000-1519344000@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:REP Workshop - Anna Sampaio DESCRIPTION:REP Workshop – Anna Sampaio \nDateFebruary 19\, 2016 \nTime4:00pm to 6:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nProfessor Sampaio will be talking about her new book:(Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants: Race\, Gender\, and Immigration Politics in the Age of Security\, 2015\, Temple University Press) \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/rep-workshop-anna-sampaio/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180223T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180223T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075814 CREATED:20180830T194815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194815Z UID:2325-1519344000-1519344000@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Varieties of Corruption: The Organization of Rent-Sharing in India DESCRIPTION:Varieties of Corruption: The Organization of Rent-Sharing in India \nDateFebruary 21\, 2014 \nTime6:00am to 7:30am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nStudies of corruption shed little light on ways in which corrupt rents are distributed across actors—insights that would prove enlightening for efforts to reduce corruption. I posit that the type of state resource over which actors are attempting to gain control—e.g. permits and licenses versus access to benefits from welfare schemes—shapes the character of control over resource allocation and so is a key predictor of patterns in rent-sharing. I present a framework for categorizing corrupt acts that emphasizes variation in the type of government resource and highlights disparities in the character of illicit payments across multiple realms of government activity. I then draw on new and original data from surveys of Indian politicians and bureaucrats and a new measure of rent dispersion\, the effective distribution of rents (EDR)\, to show that there is considerable sharing of rents across government and non-government actors and that the perceived distribution of rents is strongly associated with the type of government resource. My evidence also shows that rent-sharing occurs to similar degrees for different types of corruption\, but that the actors who benefit from corruption depends sharply on the type of government resource. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/varieties-of-corruption-the-organization-of-rent-sharing-in-india/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180223T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180223T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075814 CREATED:20180830T194814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194814Z UID:2324-1519344000-1519344000@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Nuclear Russian Roulette: A Model of Proliferation and Preventive War DESCRIPTION:Nuclear Russian Roulette: A Model of Proliferation and Preventive War \nDateFebruary 21\, 2014 \nTime7:00am to 8:30am \nLocation\n11377 Bunche Hall \nContact \nWe (Muhammet A. Bas and Andrew J. Coe) develop a formal model of bargaining between two states\, where one can invest in developing nuclear weapons and the other imperfectly observes its efforts and progress over time\, and use it to analyze the occurrence of proliferation and war and the role of intelligence-gathering and estimates in these. Surprise proliferation\, sporadic crises over the uncertain progress of a proliferant’s efforts\, and mistaken preventive wars can all arise endogenously in the model. The technological sophistication of the proliferant and the monitoring ability of the other state influence the probabilities of war and proliferation in ways that are often counter-intuitive and non-monotonic. However\, much of the variation in behavior is driven\, not by these potentially policy-manipulable factors\, but by chance elements such as when the proliferant’s program will make progress and when the other state will discover this. In the absence of a non-proliferation agreement\, the United States and proliferants like Iran are playing what amounts to a long game of Russian roulette. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/nuclear-russian-roulette-a-model-of-proliferation-and-preventive-war/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075814 CREATED:20180830T194837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194837Z UID:2380-1519257600-1519257600@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:REP Workshop with Jane Anna Gordon DESCRIPTION:REP Workshop with Jane Anna Gordon \nDateFebruary 19\, 2015 \nTime12:00pm to 1:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Jane Anna Gordon\, University of ConnecticutTitle: “Creolizing Political Theory”About the Speaker:Jane Gordon (Ph.D. 2005\, Univ. of Pennsylvania) is Associate Professor of Political Science (Political Theory) as well as of African American Studies at UConn.  She previously taught at Temple University. Her focus is on modern and contemporary political theory\, Africana political thought\, theories of enslavement\, political theories of education\, methodologies in the social sciences\, and political theory in film and literature.  Most recently\, she is the author of the like-titled book Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau through Fanon (2014) from Fordham University PressCo-sponsored by the Political Theory WorkshopAbstract:Asking whether it is possible to develop an approach to studying political life that fully reflects its heterogeneity\, [the author] offers the creolization of political theory as a viable response. Creolization describes mixtures that were not supposed to have emerged in the plantation societies of the Caribbean but did through their capacity to exemplify living culture\, thought\, and political practice. In so doing\, they provide a useful way of understanding similar processes that continue today\, namely of one potential outcome when people who were previously strangers find themselves as unequal co-occupants of new political locations they seek to call “home.”  In demonstrating a path that is different from the one usually associated with multiculturalism\, in which different cultures are thought to co-exist relatively separately and the aim is for each to tolerate the other by letting it remain in relative isolation\, creolization describes how people reinterpret themselves through interaction with one another to create forms of belonging that are familiar but also distinctive and new. These are useful models both for reconsidering how contemporary political solidarities could be constructed and how we might envisage the relationships that may be forged among what have become radically separate fields for studying a shared world. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/rep-workshop-with-jane-anna-gordon/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075814 CREATED:20180830T194837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194837Z UID:2381-1519257600-1519257600@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:International Relations Workshop with Susan Hyde DESCRIPTION:International Relations Workshop with Susan Hyde \nDateFebruary 19\, 2015 \nTime12:00pm \nLocation\n4276 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Susan Hyde\, Yale UniversityTitle:”The Individual-Level Consequences of Democracy Promotion: A Field Experiment in Rural Cambodia”About the Speaker:Susan Hyde is Associate Professor of Political Science & International Affairs at Yale University. She studies international influences on domestic politics\, particularly in the developing world and teaches classes in international relations and comparative politics. Prof. Hyde is an expert on international election observation\, election fraud\, and democracy promotion and has served as an election observer with several organizations in Afghanistan\, Albania\, Indonesia\, Liberia\, Nicaragua\, Pakistan\, and Venezuela. Her first book\, The Pseudo-Democrat’s Dilemma: Why Election Observation Became an International Norm (Cornell Univ. Press\, 2011)\, won several prizes\, including APSA’s 2012 Comparative Democratization Section best book award.Co-sponsored by the Comparative Politics WorkshopAbstract:Since the early 1990s\, efforts to promote democracy throughout the world have proliferated\, yet as many scholars and policymakers lament\, the effects of these democracy promotion programs are poorly understood. In this paper we introduce a randomized field experiment intended to evaluate one democracy promotion program undertaken by an international non-governmental organization in Cambodia. We show that citizen exposure to multi-party town hall meetings has positive effects on citizen knowledge about politics\, attitudes towards democracy\, and reported political behavior\, but has null effects on citizen confidence in the political process.  In addition\, several months after the intervention\, qualitative evidence suggests that problem issues in treatment villages are more likely to be addressed than in control villages. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/international-relations-workshop-with-susan-hyde/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180219T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180219T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075814 CREATED:20180830T194930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194930Z UID:2509-1518998400-1518998400@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:IR Workshop - Lauren Prather\, UC San Diego DESCRIPTION:IR Workshop – Lauren Prather\, UC San Diego \nDateFebruary 13\, 2017 \nTime3:00pm to 4:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nAbstract:What explains variation in individual preferences for foreign economic engagement? Although much ink has been spilled on that question\, little research examines how potential partner countries affect public opinion on policies such as trade\, foreign aid\, and foreign direct investment. We construct a new theory arguing that citizens’ perceptions of political side-taking by outside powers shape their support for engaging economically with those countries. We use original survey experiments fielded in a developed country\, the United States\, and a developing country\, Tunisia\, to test the theory. In both cases\, we find that the potential partners’ side-taking in the partisan politics of the respondents’ country dramatically shapes support for foreign economic relations with other countries along partisan lines. As the rise of new aid donors\, investors\, and trade partners create new choices in economic partners\, the theory and findings contained in this article are critical to understanding mass preferences about open economic engagement. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/ir-workshop-lauren-prather-uc-san-diego/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180219T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180219T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075814 CREATED:20180830T194930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194930Z UID:2508-1518998400-1518998400@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:AP Workshop - Jon Rogowski\, Harvard University DESCRIPTION:AP Workshop – Jon Rogowski\, Harvard University \nDateFebruary 13\, 2017 \nTime12:30pm to 2:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nAbstract:Though economic development is commonly posited to depend on the quality of political institutions\, empirical research focuses mostly on how the nature and design of economic institutions affects developmental outcomes. We argue that infrastructural projects play a key role in shaping economic development and test our argument in the context of postal systems\, one of the most important infrastructural consequences of state-building activities around the world. We find demonstrate support for our argument across micro-level analyses conducted at the county level in the United States and macro-level analyses conducted at the cross-national level. Our findings provide evidence that state-building projects\, though frequently associated with pork-barrel politics\, patronage\, and corruption\, provided important sources of economic development for recipient communities.Full paper can be found here \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/ap-workshop-jon-rogowski-harvard-university/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180216T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180216T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075815 CREATED:20180830T194929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194929Z UID:2507-1518739200-1518739200@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:PT Workshop - Sankar Muthu\, University of Chicago DESCRIPTION:PT Workshop – Sankar Muthu\, University of Chicago \nDateFebruary 10\, 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-sankar-muthu-university-of-chicago/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180216T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180216T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075815 CREATED:20180830T194906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194906Z UID:2451-1518739200-1518739200@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:PT Workshop - Jeanne Morefield DESCRIPTION:PT Workshop – Jeanne Morefield \nDateFebruary 12\, 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-jeanne-morefield/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180216T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180216T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075815 CREATED:20180830T194906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194906Z UID:2450-1518739200-1518739200@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:IL/IR Workshop - Laurence Helfer DESCRIPTION:IL/IR Workshop – Laurence Helfer \nDateFebruary 12\, 2016 \nTime2:00pm to 4:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/il-ir-workshop-laurence-helfer/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180212T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075815 CREATED:20180830T194929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194929Z UID:2506-1518393600-1518393600@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:IR Workshop - Rachel Stein\, George Washington University DESCRIPTION:IR Workshop – Rachel Stein\, George Washington University \nDateFebruary 6\, 2017 \nTime3:00pm to 4:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nAbstract:Public perceptions of threat from abroad can have an important impact on the course of both domestic and foreign policy\, but how do ordinary people\, who lack both the access to information and the political sophistication of elite actors\, assess the source and severity of foreign threats? In this paper\, I argue that media coverage\, and particularly the propensity of the media to personify foreign adversaries plays an important role in threat perception at the mass level. Personification refers to the use of specific individuals\, usually leaders\, to stand in for more abstract entities like states or terrorist groups. Given the media’s reliance on visual imagery to attract and keep the attention of viewers\, personification often involves widespread dissemination of the image of the enemy leader. In turn\, these images have the power to influence threat perception by activating out-group stereotypes concerning violence and trustworthiness. Using a survey experiment\, I show how the perception of threat is influenced by an interaction between the preexisting biases of the individual viewer and the stereotypicality of the image itself. While preliminary\, these results suggest that the enemy images that individuals encounter in the course of their media consumption may play an important role in shaping mass attitudes towards both the use of military force abroad\, and the dehumanization\, repression and mistreatment of minority groups at home. Full paper can be found here \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/ir-workshop-rachel-stein-george-washington-university/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180212T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075815 CREATED:20180830T194928Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194928Z UID:2505-1518393600-1518393600@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:CP Workshop - Jessica Gottlieb\, Texas A&M University DESCRIPTION:CP Workshop – Jessica Gottlieb\, Texas A&M University \nDateFebruary 6\, 2017 \nTime12:30pm to 2:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nAbstract: Contrary to much of the empirical literature\, we find that increases in political competition in one new democracy actually decrease the provision of publicly-provided goods. This result is not especially surprising in light of the widespread consensus that parties in new democracies often campaign on clientelistic transfers – which can be a substitute for programmatic outcomes. However\, we find no evidence that this is driving the negative result in our empirical context of Mali. Instead\, we find evidence for a novel mechanism: an increased likelihood of coordination failures among elected local councilmembers in more competitive districts. We develop a model that generates predictions about when the coordination costs induced by political competition are likely to result in worse publicly-provided goods outcomes: namely\, when competition increases coordination costs at a relatively faster rate than it decreases political rent-seeking. In-depth interviews with local politicians inform our theory\, while panel data on local publicly-provided goods provision and election outcomes and a large-scale phone survey of politicians allow for a rigorous test of the impacts of competition on publicly-provided goods outcomes and of the mechanisms driving these impacts. We expect coordination failures to be important in many contexts where local policymaking requires the engagement of a broad coalition of potentially diverse actors and where governance is relatively non-transparent.Full paper can be found here \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/cp-workshop-jessica-gottlieb-texas-am-university/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180212T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075815 CREATED:20180830T194909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194909Z UID:2456-1518393600-1518393600@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:IR Workshop- Rachel Wellhausen DESCRIPTION:IR Workshop- Rachel Wellhausen \nDateFebruary 8\, 2016 \nTime12:00pm to 2:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nThere is extraordinary variation in how governments treat multinational corporations in emerging market countries. Governments around the world have nationalized\, expropriated\, or eaten away at the value of foreign-owned property in violation of international treaties. This is despite the fact that we expect\, at a minimum\, that governments in poor countries will respect the contracts they make with foreign firms lest foreign capital flee. In The Shield of Nationality\, I introduce foreign firm nationality as a key determinant of which firms take flight or fight when a government breaks contracts. Firms of the same nationality are likely to worry that their co-national’s broken contract is a forewarning of their own problems. This sense of shared political risk has two effects. First\, firms of the same nationality lobby their diplomats to shield them from breach. Second\, firms of the same nationality are likely to divert their investments when the shield is pierced and a co-national firm faces a broken contract. In contrast\, firms of other nationalities have less incentive to risk their defenses and are more likely to meet the broken contract with apparent indifference. The theory’s counterintuitive implication is that a nationally diverse investor community can be a liability to firms while providing an opening for governments to prioritize other goals over the property and preferences of foreign capital. My evidence for these findings includes cross-national quantitative analyses and case studies that draw on field research in Moldova\, Romania\, and Ukraine. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/ir-workshop-rachel-wellhausen/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180212T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075815 CREATED:20180830T194906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194906Z UID:2449-1518393600-1518393600@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Methods Workshop - Groeling/Li/Zhu DESCRIPTION:Methods Workshop – Groeling/Li/Zhu \nDateFebruary 8\, 2016 \nTime3:30pm to 5:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nMedia news plays a vital role in informing citizens\, affecting public opinion\, and influencing policy making. The flow of information in society is an important topic in social and political science research\, but the sheer volume of news data has made manual analysis exceptionally difficult. In this talk\, we will present a joint project on joint image-text parsing\, including news story segmentation\, topic detection\, clustering\, and tracking with a hierarchical statistical model called And-Or Graph. Detected topics can show a comprehensive interpretation of the related news events\, and topic trajectories can reveal how topics evolve over time. Together\, these tools provide an automatic news parsing solution to feed further analysis.  This information is further combined with sentiment analysis in tweets.Then we will show two case studies: (i) tracking the 2016 U.S. presidential election; and (ii) analyzing gun violence events. We have built a website (viz2016.com) to present accessible visual summaries of our large-scale election tracking results. We will introduce the website in this talk and show how to use the data. For the gun violence case study\, we will discuss our topic tracking and sentiment analysis results. We will also talk about our automated analyses of news visuals\, including communicative intent inference and facial trait judgement. These analyses show how news media leverage images to visually persuade their audiences\, and demonstrate the social dimensions of faces and their impact on real-world events.Finally\, we will discuss the next steps for the project\, including our newly-launched effort to begin digitizing local and national television news content dating back to 1970s. This is a joint work since 2010 between communications studies (Tim Groeling\, Francis Steen) and Statistics/Computer Science (Weixin Li\, Tao Yuan\, Jungseock Joo\, and Song-Chun Zhu)\, sponsored by the NSF CDI program CNS 1028381. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/methods-workshop-groeling-li-zhu/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180212T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075815 CREATED:20180830T194837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194837Z UID:2379-1518393600-1518393600@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Comparative Politics Workshop with Lisa Blaydes DESCRIPTION:Comparative Politics Workshop with Lisa Blaydes \nDateFebruary 9\, 2015 \nTime12:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Lisa Blaydes\, Stanford UniversityTitle: “Compliance and Resistance in Iraq under Saddam Hussein:  Evidence from the Files of the Ba`th Party”Abstract:What explains patterns of compliance with and resistance to autocratic rule?  This paper provides a theoretical framework for understanding how individuals living under dictatorship calibrate their political behaviors.  Using data from documents captured by U.S. forces during the 2003 invasion of Iraq\, I use unanticipated political shocks to examine over-time discontinuities in citizen behavior in Iraq under Saddam Hussein during two distinct periods – before and after the First Gulf War and the associated Kurdish and Shi`a anti-regime uprisings.  Prior to 1991 and the establishment of a Kurdish autonomous zone in northern Iraq\, severe repression and widespread use of collective punishment created the conditions for Iraqi Kurds to engage in a widespread anti-regime rebellion.  Before 1991\, Shi`a Iraqis were able to express limited forms of political discontent; after 1991\, however\, Shi`a were forced to publicly signal compliance while shifting to more private forms of anti-regime activity.  While Iraqis living in and around Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit almost universally self-identified as Ba`thists and enjoyed privileges as a result of close ties to the regime\, Sunnis living in areas distant from Tikrit became increasingly estranged from the regime as international sanctions closed off economic opportunities. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/comparative-politics-workshop-with-lisa-blaydes/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180208T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180208T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075815 CREATED:20180830T194928Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194928Z UID:2504-1518048000-1518048000@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Cristina Beltran\, New York University DESCRIPTION:Cristina Beltran\, New York University \nDateFebruary 2\, 2017 \nTime12:00pm to 1:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nAbstract:From Brexit to the election of Donald Trump\, our politics are increasingly defined by anxieties over the meaning and limits of sovereignty. This paper argues for placing Latinos at the center of our racial analysis in order to better understand how concerns and dreams regarding sovereign power are shaping American public life. Focusing on the split between neoliberal multiculturalism and right-wing nativism\, this research puts conservative critiques of immigration alongside examples of undocumented activism to explore the fundamental yet contradictory role Latinos occupy in the U.S. political imaginary\, positioned within American democracy as both political necessity and demographic threat. Drawing on an interdisciplinary body of scholarship that includes Latino studies\, political theory\, and queer theory\, this paper analyzes how Latinos’ rapid growth nationally has produced a potent combination of political desire and hostility\, giving Latinos a distinct (and affectively charged) status within America’s political culture. In this way\, Latinos negotiate a political climate in which their political actions are often perceived as indicative of sovereignty’s crisis. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/cristina-beltran-new-york-university/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180208T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180208T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075815 CREATED:20180830T194837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194837Z UID:2378-1518048000-1518048000@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Comparative Politics Workshop with James Kung DESCRIPTION:Comparative Politics Workshop with James Kung \nDateFebruary 5\, 2015 \nTime12:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:\n James Kai-sing Kung\, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology \nTitle: \n “Do Land Revenue Windfalls Create a Political Resource Curse?  Evidence from China” \nAbstract: By analyzing a panel on the political turnovers of 4\,390 county leaders in China during 1999–2008\, we find that the revenue windfalls accrued to these officials from land sales have both undermined the effectiveness of the promotion system for government officials and fueled corruption. Instead of rewarding efforts made to boost GDP growth\, promotion is also positively correlated with signaling efforts\, with those politically connected to their superiors and those beyond the prime age for promotion being the primary beneficiaries. Likewise\, land revenue windfalls have led to increases in the size of bureaucracy and administrative expenditure –|corruption in short. \nPaper:\nClick here to download. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/comparative-politics-workshop-with-james-kung/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180205T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180205T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075815 CREATED:20180830T194836Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194836Z UID:2377-1517788800-1517788800@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:American Politics Workshop with Anthony Fowler DESCRIPTION:American Politics Workshop with Anthony Fowler \nDateFebruary 2\, 2015 \nTime3:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Anthony Fowler\, University of ChicagoTitle:”A Bayesian Explanation for Incumbency Advantage”Abstract:  Incumbents perform significantly better in elections just because they are incumbents\, yet the most commonly proposed explanations for this phenomenon are unsatisfying and inconsistent with empirical evidence. First\, I review previous evidence and introduce new data to demonstrate that previous explanations are unlikely to account for the incumbency advantage\, its changes over time\, or its consistency across offices. Next\, I introduce a new explanation that is parsimonious and consistent with existing empirical evidence. If voters lack perfect information about candidates in an election\, incumbency is an informative signal of quality\, and voters will update their beliefs accordingly — producing an incumbency advantage where low-quality incumbents who barely win office receive a significant electoral bump in support because of their incumbency status. These claims are formalized through a decision-theoretic model where voters receive noisy signals of candidate quality. Finally\, I experimentally test this explanation by providing voters with information that removes the informative value of incumbency—their incumbent’s vote margin in the last election. When voters learn that their incumbent barely won office\, they are significantly less likely to support reelection. The results suggest that this simple theory of Bayesian learning explains a meaningful portion of the observed incumbency advantage in American elections. I conclude by discussing the ways in which this explanation can explain the dramatic rise of incumbency advantage in the last half of the 20th century\, variation in incumbency advantage across countries\, and even a negative incumbency advantage in some contexts. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/american-politics-workshop-with-anthony-fowler/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180205T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180205T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075815 CREATED:20180830T194835Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194835Z UID:2376-1517788800-1517788800@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:International Relations Workshop with Michaela Mattes DESCRIPTION:International Relations Workshop with Michaela Mattes \nDateFebruary 2\, 2015 \nTime12:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Michaela Mattes\, UC BerkeleyTitle: “Chipping Away at the Issues: Does a Piecemeal Approach to Dispute Settlement Work?”Abstract:Disputants often have the option to resolve their disagreements in a series of partial settlements\, addressing a subset of the issues at a time. How viable is such a piecemeal strategy? I argue that partial settlements can decrease tensions\, build trust\, generate demands for additional cooperation\, and provide guidance for future negotiations. As a result\, partial settlements should reduce conflict and facilitate the resolution of remaining disagreements. Yet\, some scholars have raised doubts about the efficacy of partial settlements and a systematic empirical test is necessary to determine whether a piecemeal approach works. Using data from worldwide interstate territorial claims between 1919-2001\, I find that partial settlements do not initially have a conflict-dampening effect\, but that they promote the resolution of remaining contentious issues and thus help reduce conflict in the longer run. While not a panacea\, partial settlements can be a valuable conflict management tool.Paper:Click here to download. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/international-relations-workshop-with-michaela-mattes/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180205T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180205T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075815 CREATED:20180830T194816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194816Z UID:2329-1517788800-1517788800@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Protecting the Polls: The Effect of Observers on Election Fraud DESCRIPTION:Protecting the Polls: The Effect of Observers on Election Fraud \nDateFebruary 3\, 2014 \nTime4:00am to 5:30am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nDo domestic election observers deter electoral fraud? And under what conditions do political parties respond to the presence of observers to negate their impact? We address these questions by studying observers’ effects on two markers of fraud — overvoting (more votes cast than registered voters) and unnaturally high levels of turnout — during Ghana’s 2012 presidential elections. Our randomized saturation experimental design allows us to estimate observers’ causal effects and to identify how political parties strategically respond to observers. We show that observers significantly reduce overvoting and suspicious turnout at polling stations to which they are deployed. We also find that political parties successfully relocate fraud from observed to unobserved stations in their historical strongholds\, where they enjoy social penetration and political competition is low\, whereas they are not able to do so in politically competitive constituencies. The findings have implications for understanding political party behavior and the effects of governance interventions. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/protecting-the-polls-the-effect-of-observers-on-election-fraud/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR