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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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SUMMARY:PT Workshop - Megan Thomas\, UC Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:PT Workshop – Megan Thomas\, UC Santa Cruz  \nDateJanuary 27\, 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-megan-thomas-uc-santa-cruz/
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SUMMARY:Explaining Authoritarian Collapse through Public Opinion Surveys: Evidence from Poland (1985-1989)
DESCRIPTION:Explaining Authoritarian Collapse through Public Opinion Surveys: Evidence from Poland (1985-1989) \nDateJanuary 31\, 2014 \nTime6:00am to 7:30am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nIn this paper we take advantage of a unique set of surveys from late-communist Poland to address the question how anti-communist attitudes developed in the years leading up to the fall of communism in East-Central Europe. We use several surveys carried out on representative national samples in Poland between 1985 (one year after the end of Martial Law) and 1989 to examine the correlates of dissident attitudes among the mass public. The surveys were carried out by the Center for Public Opinion Research (CBOS)\, a polling company created by the communist authorities in the aftermath of the rise of the dissident trade union Solidarity\, when they realized that relying on reports from the secret police alone left them unprepared for outbreaks of popular dissidence. We exploit the variation in the authoritarian context –from the restrictive post-Martial law regime through gradual liberalization to the relatively tolerant pre-roundtable negotiations environment—to show that\, contrary to Timur Kuran’s theory\, a decrease in pro-government attitudes does not immediately translate into an increase inpro-opposition attitudes. Instead\, there is a considerable lag between the expression of pro-government and pro-opposition attitudes\, at least at the aggregate level. We use significant events from recent Polish and European political history to interpret this gap. Additionally\, we correct for the possibility of bias in answering questions about the authoritarian regime sincerely by using a question about Solidarity membership during the period when it was a legal organization to develop weights allowing us to distinguish between the more and less sincere respondents.  \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/explaining-authoritarian-collapse-through-public-opinion-surveys-evidence-from-poland-1985-1989/
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SUMMARY:The Political Polarization of America’s Physicians
DESCRIPTION:The Political Polarization of America’s Physicians \nDateJanuary 31\, 2014 \nTime8:00am to 9:30am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nClick here to download the presentation slides (paper not available): http://www.polisci.ucla.edu/workshops/speaker-series-papers/Doctors_UCLA_JAN_2014.pptx \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/the-political-polarization-of-americas-physicians/
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SUMMARY:REP Workshop with Christopher Lebron
DESCRIPTION:REP Workshop with Christopher Lebron \nDateJanuary 29\, 2015 \nTime12:00pm to 1:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nRace\, Ethnicity\, and Politics WorkshopPresenter:Christopher Lebron\, Yale UniversityTitle: “The Sense and Sensibility of Equality”About the Speaker:Christopher Lebron is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Philosophy.Abstract:Theories of justice have typically focused on the question of institutional design\, as informed by a particular moral argument\, to effect social justice. In this paper\, part of a larger book project\, I focus on the themes of moral skill and attentiveness to present a framework outlining the kinds of personal ethical and moral attributes and habits persons need to cultivate in order to comply with the demands of racial justice.Paper:Click here to download.To preview Prof. Lebron’s  REP Workshop from an earlier presentation\, click here. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/rep-workshop-with-christopher-lebron/
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SUMMARY:Comparative Politics Workshop with Kenneth Scheve
DESCRIPTION:Comparative Politics Workshop with Kenneth Scheve  \nDateJanuary 28\, 2015 \nTime12:00pm to 1:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Kenneth Scheve\, Stanford UniversityTitle:”Taxing the Rich: Fairness and Fiscal Sacrifice Over Two Centuries”About the Presenter:Kenneth Scheve is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute. His research has been published in numerous leading scholarly journals and has been recognized for a number of awards and grants. Prof. Scheve is currently writing a book (Taxing the Rich . . . ) with David Stasavage of New York University examining the interaction between mass warfare\, fairness concerns\, and the development of progressive taxation in the 19th and 20th centuries across twenty countries. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame\, and previously taught at the University of Michigan and Yale University. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/comparative-politics-workshop-with-kenneth-scheve/
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SUMMARY:Saumitra Jha\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:Saumitra Jha\, Stanford University  \nDateJanuary 24\, 2017 \nTime12:30pm to 2:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nAbstract:Financial markets expose individuals to the broader economy. Does participation in financial markets also lead citizens to re-evaluate the costs of conflict\, their views on politics and even their voting decisions? Prior to the 2015 Israeli elections\, we randomly assigned financial assets from Israeli and Palestinian companies to likely voters and gave them incentives to actively trade for up to seven weeks. Exposure to financial markets systematically shifted vote choices and increased support for peace initiatives. We delineate the mechanisms for this change and show that financial market exposure led to learning and reevaluation of the economic costs of conflict.Full paper available here:https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2716660 \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/saumitra-jha-stanford-university/
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SUMMARY:CP Workshop - Melissa Rogers
DESCRIPTION:CP Workshop – Melissa Rogers \nDateJanuary 25\, 2016 \nTime12:30pm to 2:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nGovernment revenue is a necessary condition for fiscal redistribution. For nearly all nations\, therefore\, tax capacity is strongly related to redistributive outcomes. However\, recent research suggests that the development of tax capacity is endogenous to elites’ concerns about inequality and redistribution. We highlight the role of economic geography as a crucial determinant of fiscal capacity today through two channels: it mediates the degree of elite heterogeneity and the type of political competition that emerges as a result of industrialization\, and it conditions distributive conflicts over revenue collection through the scope of cross-regional income differences in the long run. To empirically assess this argument\, we perform an instrumental variables analysis on the long run determinants of tax capacity\, regional inequality\, and political representation. Second\, using a difference-in-differences approach\, we examine an exogenous change to regional income disparities on tax capacity with the commodities shock of 2007-2008. Third\, we analyze the effects of tax reforms on tax revenue collection in Latin American countries. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/cp-workshop-melissa-rogers/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180129T000000
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SUMMARY:American Politics Workshop with Jessica Trounstine
DESCRIPTION:American Politics Workshop with Jessica Trounstine \nDateJanuary 26\, 2015 \nTime3:00pm to 4:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Jessica Trounstine\, UC MercedTitle: “In it Together: The Segregation of Public Goods”Abstract:Research has made clear that among the major contributors to persistent inequality are the shackles (and privileges) that residential location bestows.  The neighborhood and city in which one lives determine access to quality housing\, employment\, and networks; and they determine access to a range of public goods\, such as effective police protection\, strong public schools\, clean parks\, reliable sewer and water systems\, and even public health. Because America remains a highly segregated nation\, the quality of public benefits experienced by racial and ethnic minorities is vastly poorer that the quality of benefits experienced by whites.  Residential segregation allows governments to disinvest in minority communities and produces segregation in access to public goods.  In this presentation I explore some of the political consequences of racial segregation and discuss the ways in which distributional politics contribute to residential isolation in metropolitan regions.Paper:Click here to download. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/american-politics-workshop-with-jessica-trounstine/
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SUMMARY:REP Workshop - Janelle Wong
DESCRIPTION:REP Workshop – Janelle Wong \nDateJanuary 22\, 2016 \nTime4:00pm to 6:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nTogether\, Asian American and Latino evangelicals constitute a growing proportion of evangelicals in the United States. Their numbers are surely going to increase as new immigrants enter the United States from Asia and Latin America and the number of White evangelicals remains steady or even falls. But the extent and nature of the effects of evangelical identity on the political attitudes of growing numbers of Latinos and Asian Americans have not been studied systematically. This paper aims to fill that gap by comparing the effects of evangelical identity on political attitudes across a range of groups to better address the conditional effects of religious identity on political orientations in an increasingly diverse context. The primary research question driving the study is does born-again identity play a consistent role across racial groups in determining political attitudes? \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/rep-workshop-janelle-wong/
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SUMMARY:DSS - Sarah Anzia\, UC Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:DSS – Sarah Anzia\, UC Berkeley  \nDateJanuary 19\, 2017 \nTime12:30pm to 2:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nAbstract:A subversive line of new scholarship in American politics argues that interest groups need to be brought to the analytic center of the field once again.  This paper attempts to further that agenda.  We reconnect with an older literature of great importance—on capture\, subgovernments\, and interest group liberalism—to study interest groups as insiders that play routine\, officially recognized roles as part of government itself.  Our empirical focus is on state-run public pension boards: which control trillions of dollars\, have vast fiscal and social consequences\, and are commonly designed to give public employees and their unions official roles in governing their own pension systems. We develop a theory arguing—contrary to existing scholarly work—that these groups can actually be expected to favor policies that undermine the fiscal integrity of these plans.  Through an analysis of key decisions by 109 pension boards over the period 2001-2014\, we show that this is in fact the case—and that\, for public-sector pensions\, these “interest groups on the inside” have genuine influence that weakens effective government.Full paper can be found here  \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/dss-sarah-anzia-uc-berkeley/
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SUMMARY:Marschak Colloquium with Mark Turner
DESCRIPTION:Marschak Colloquium with Mark Turner \nDateJanuary 22\, 2015 \nTime3:00pm to 4:30pm \nLocation \nContact\nContact Information\nlohmann@ucla.edu \nPresenter:Mark Turner\, Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science\, Case Western Reserve UniversityHost:Francis Steen\, Associate Professor of Communication Studies\, UCLATitle: “The Origin of Ideas: Blending\, Creativity\, and the Human Spark”Abstract:Other species have abilities we do not they can fly\, spin webs\, photosynthesize. But human beings are the heavyweight champions of extremely rapid creativity. We are the origin of ideas. We invent and disseminate new ideas constantly\, often ideas that range across vast expanses of time\, space\, causation\, and agency expanses that go far beyond human scale and that leave other species in the dust. Why are we so innovative? How can our little brains hold onto new ideas once they are formed? Professor Turner explores the ways in which advanced human cognition\, often profoundly conservative\, is remarkable for its ability to blend old ideas to make new ones\, with emergent meaning arising in the blend. Advanced blending\, a basic mental operation for human beings\, is a constant\, everyday mental activity\, not costly and not reserved for special effects\, even though it is almost entirely unnoticed. It appears to operate according to uniform principles and under uniform constraints\, underlying mathematical insight\, scientific discovery\, advanced social cognition\, art\, music\, religion\, fashion\, decision-making\, grammar\, and the rest of the performances that distinguish cognitively modern human beings.Professor Turner is the author of The Origin of Ideas (2014)\, The Artful Mind (2004)\, Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science (2001)\, and a many other books and articles. He is Founding Director of the Cognitive Science Network; Co-Director of the Distributed Little Red Hen Lab; winner of the Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la litterature francaises from the French Academy; Founding President of the Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts; Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study\, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences\, the National Humanities Center\, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University\, the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, and the Institute for the Science of Origins; Extraordinary Member of the Humanwissenschaftliches Zentrum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat; and External Research Professor of the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/marschak-colloquium-with-mark-turner/
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SUMMARY:REP Workshop with Monica Varsanyi
DESCRIPTION:REP Workshop with Monica Varsanyi \nDateJanuary 22\, 2015 \nTime12:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nRace\, Ethnicity\, and Politics WorkshopPresenter:Monica W. Varsanyi\, CUNY Graduate CenterTitle: “Divergent States: Explaining Immigration Policy Trajectories in New Mexico and Arizona”About the Speaker:Varsanyi is Associate Professor of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice\, City University of New York (CUNY)\, and a member of the faculty in Geography at the CUNY Graduate Center.  Her research addresses the politics of unauthorized (or ‘illegal’) immigration in the United States\, specifically the growing tensions between local\, state\, and federal governments over immigration policy and enforcement.  Her teaching interests include urban politics\, immigration law and policy\, and research design and methods.  She is currently working on two related projects:  one that explores growing tensions between local and state grassroots immigration policy activism and the U.S. federal government’s plenary power over immigration; and second\, a project that explores the expanding involvement of city police in immigration enforcement and the impact this is having on the relationship between local police and (unauthorized) immigrant communities. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/rep-workshop-with-monica-varsanyi/
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SUMMARY:Anthony Fowler\, University of Chicago
DESCRIPTION:Anthony Fowler\, University of Chicago  \nDateJanuary 17\, 2017 \nTime12:30pm to 2:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nThe talk will be based on two papers\, available here and here. Abstract:Congressional committees are thought to play a central role in policymaking and the distribution of federal spending\, and seats on important committees such as Appropriations or Ways and Means are highly coveted. Political scientists have extensively studied and hypothesized about the importance of committee positions\, but surprisingly\, committee chairs have received notably less attention. Results from two papers suggest that the focus of congressional scholars appears to be misplaced. Rank-and-file committee positions generally have little impact on the influence and power of members of congress\, while committee chairs are more important than previously thought. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/anthony-fowler-university-of-chicago/
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SUMMARY:PT Workshop - William Stahl\, UCLA
DESCRIPTION:PT Workshop – William Stahl\, UCLA \nDateJanuary 13\, 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-william-stahl-ucla/
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SUMMARY:Juliet Williams
DESCRIPTION:Juliet Williams  \nDateJanuary 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/juliet-williams/
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SUMMARY:Jessica Stanton\, University of Pennsylvania
DESCRIPTION:Jessica Stanton\, University of Pennsylvania  \nDateJanuary 12\, 2017 \nTime12:30pm to 2:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nAbstract:Do rebel group violations of international humanitarian law during civil war – in particular\, attacks on noncombatant civilians – affect conflict outcomes?  I argue that in the post-Cold War era\, rebel groups who do not target civilians have been able to use the framework of international human rights and humanitarian law to appeal for diplomatic support from Western governments and intergovernmental organizations.  However\, rebel group appeals for international diplomatic support are most likely to be effective when the rebel group can contrast its own respect for civilian immunity with the government’s abuses.  Rebel groups that do not target civilians in the face of government abuses\, therefore\, are likely to be able to translate increased international diplomatic support into more favorable conflict outcomes. Using original cross-national data on rebel group violence against civilians in all civil wars from 1989 to 2010\, the findings show that rebel groups that exercise restraint toward civilians in the face of government violence are more likely to secure favorable conflict outcomes.  In addition\, I probe the causal mechanism linking rebel group behavior to conflict outcomes\, showing that when a rebel group behaves well in comparison to its government opponent\, Western governments and intergovernmental organizations are more likely to take coercive diplomatic action against the government.  The evidence suggests that rebel groups can translate this increased diplomatic support into favorable conflict outcomes.Full paper can be found here  \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/jessica-stanton-university-of-pennsylvania/
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SUMMARY:Immigrant/Native Born Contact\, Trust and Civic Engagement
DESCRIPTION:Immigrant/Native Born Contact\, Trust and Civic Engagement  \nDateJanuary 14\, 2016 \nTime12:30pm to 2:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/immigrant-native-born-contact-trust-and-civic-engagement/
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SUMMARY:Saad Gulzar\, New York University
DESCRIPTION:Saad Gulzar\, New York University \nDateJanuary 11\, 2017 \nTime12:30pm to 2:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nAbstract:What motivates people to seek political office? What role does the social context play in the candidacy decision? In a field experiment\, we increase the salience of personal reasons for running for political office – such as gaining respect and status – or social reasons for running – such as the ability to help others. We do this by making appeals to a random subset of the community in one-on-one private meetings or in village-level public meetings. Our results show that\, first\, making any appeal to run greatly increases the probability of candidacy. Second\, compared to a neutral private or public meeting\, where personal or social reasons are not mentioned\, highlighting social reasons to run increases candidacy\, while making personal reasons salient reduces candidacy. Significantly\, these effects are only observed when appeals are made in a public meeting\, leading to the conclusion that the social dimensions of the candidacy decision are particularly important.Full paper can be found here \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/saad-gulzar-new-york-university/
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SUMMARY:Sissa: Gendered Politics Conference
DESCRIPTION:Sissa: Gendered Politics Conference  \nDateJanuary 13\, 2016 \nTime8:00am to 5:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/sissa-gendered-politics-conference/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180115T000000
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UID:2443-1515974400-1516147200@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Political Cultures\, Erotic Cultures - Gendered Politics In Ancient Societies
DESCRIPTION:Political Cultures\, Erotic Cultures – Gendered Politics In Ancient Societies \nDateJanuary 11\, 2016 to January 13\, 2016 \nTime2:00pm to 5:00pm \nLocation\nMonday\, January 112:00 — 5:00Classics Seminar RoomDodd Hall 248Tuesday\, January 1210:00 — 5:00Center for Medieval and Renaissance StudiesRoyce Hall 306Wednesday\, January 1310:00 — 5:00Political Science Conference RoomBunche Hall 4357 \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/political-cultures-erotic-cultures-gendered-politics-in-ancient-societies/
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