Events

American Politics Workshop with Jessica Trounstine DateJanuary 26, 2015 Time3:00pm to 4:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter: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 […]

CP Workshop - Melissa Rogers DateJanuary 25, 2016 Time12:30pm to 2:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Government 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 […]

Saumitra Jha, Stanford University DateJanuary 24, 2017 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall  Contact Abstract: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 […]

Comparative Politics Workshop with Kenneth Scheve DateJanuary 28, 2015 Time12:00pm to 1:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter: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 […]

REP Workshop with Christopher Lebron DateJanuary 29, 2015 Time12:00pm to 1:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Race, 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 […]

The Political Polarization of America’s Physicians DateJanuary 31, 2014 Time8:00am to 9:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Click here to download the presentation slides (paper not available): http://www.polisci.ucla.edu/workshops/speaker-series-papers/Doctors_UCLA_JAN_2014.pptx Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:

Explaining Authoritarian Collapse through Public Opinion Surveys: Evidence from Poland (1985-1989) DateJanuary 31, 2014 Time6:00am to 7:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact In 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 […]

PT Workshop - Megan Thomas, UC Santa Cruz DateJanuary 27, 2017 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall  Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:

Protecting the Polls: The Effect of Observers on Election Fraud DateFebruary 3, 2014 Time4:00am to 5:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Do 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 […]

International Relations Workshop with Michaela Mattes DateFebruary 2, 2015 Time12:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter: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 […]