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:20180202T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180202T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T062018 CREATED:20180830T194928Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194928Z UID:2502-1517529600-1517529600@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180202T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180202T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T062018 CREATED:20180830T194816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194816Z UID:2327-1517529600-1517529600@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180202T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180202T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T062018 CREATED:20180830T194816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194816Z UID:2328-1517529600-1517529600@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180201T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180201T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T062018 CREATED:20180830T194835Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194835Z UID:2374-1517443200-1517443200@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180131T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180131T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T062018 CREATED:20180830T194835Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194835Z UID:2375-1517356800-1517356800@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180130T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180130T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T062018 CREATED:20180830T194928Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194928Z UID:2503-1517270400-1517270400@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180129T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180129T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T062018 CREATED:20180830T194906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194906Z UID:2448-1517184000-1517184000@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180129T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180129T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T062018 CREATED:20180830T194834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194834Z UID:2372-1517184000-1517184000@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180126T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180126T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T062018 CREATED:20180830T194905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194905Z UID:2447-1516924800-1516924800@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180125T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180125T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T062018 CREATED:20180830T194927Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194927Z UID:2501-1516838400-1516838400@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180125T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180125T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T062018 CREATED:20180830T194835Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194835Z UID:2373-1516838400-1516838400@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180125T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180125T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T062018 CREATED:20180830T194834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194834Z UID:2371-1516838400-1516838400@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180123T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180123T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T062018 CREATED:20180830T194927Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194927Z UID:2500-1516665600-1516665600@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180119T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180119T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T062018 CREATED:20180830T194926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194926Z UID:2498-1516320000-1516320000@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180119T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180119T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T062018 CREATED:20180830T194904Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194904Z UID:2444-1516320000-1516320000@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180118T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180118T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T062018 CREATED:20180830T194926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194926Z UID:2499-1516233600-1516233600@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180118T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180118T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T062018 CREATED:20180830T194904Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194904Z UID:2445-1516233600-1516233600@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180117T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180117T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T062018 CREATED:20180830T194926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194926Z UID:2497-1516147200-1516147200@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180117T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180117T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T062018 CREATED:20180830T194904Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194904Z UID:2446-1516147200-1516147200@polisci.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180115T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180117T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T062018 CREATED:20180830T194904Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194904Z 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180115T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180115T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T062018 CREATED:20180830T194817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194817Z UID:2330-1515974400-1515974400@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Campaigning Online: Web Display Ads in the 2012 Presidential Campaign DESCRIPTION:Campaigning Online: Web Display Ads in the 2012 Presidential Campaign \nDateJanuary 13\, 2014 \nTime4:00am to 5:30am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nAlthough much of what we know about political advertising comes from the study of television advertising alone\, online advertising is an increasingly prominent part of political campaigning. Research on other online political communication—especially candidate websites\, blogs\, and social media—tends to conclude that these communications are primarily aimed at turning existing supporters into campaign donors\, activists\, and volunteers. Is a similar communication strategy found in online display ads—the ads seen adjacent to website content? We examine 840 unique online display ads from the 2012 presidential campaign to explore the nature\, content\, and targets of online display advertising. We show that the policy content\, tone\, ad location\, and interactive elements of the ads varied based on the audience\, with persuasive appeals aimed at undecided or persuadable voters and engagement appeals aimed at existing supporters. Comparing ad content across candidates also finds that each side focused on those issues for which the candidate had a strategic advantage. As a consequence\, we find little issue engagement in online advertising\, in contrast to the conclusions of previous research on television advertising. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/campaigning-online-web-display-ads-in-the-2012-presidential-campaign/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T062018 CREATED:20180830T194833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194833Z UID:2370-1515628800-1515628800@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Marschak Colloquium with Melissa Schwartzberg DESCRIPTION:Marschak Colloquium with Melissa Schwartzberg \nDateJanuary 8\, 2015 \nTime3:00pm \nLocation\nYoung Research Library\, Conference Room 11360 \nContact\nContact Information\nlohmann@ucla.edu \nPresenter:Melissa Schwartzberg\, New York University PoliticsHost:Giulia Sissa\, UCLA Political Science & ClassicsTitle: “Counting the Many: The Origins and Limits of Supermajority Rule”Abstract:Supermajority rules govern many features of our lives in common: from the selection of textbooks for our children’s schools to residential covenants\, from the policy choices of state and federal legislatures to constitutional amendments. It is usually assumed that these rules are not only normatively unproblematic\, but necessary to achieve the goals of institutional stability\, consensus\, and minority protections. Professor Schwartzberg challenges the logic underlying the use of supermajority rule as an alternative to majority decision-making. She traces the hidden history of supermajority decision-making\, which originally emerged as an alternative to unanimity rule\, and highlights the tensions in the contemporary use of supermajority rules as an alternative to majority rule. Although supermajority rules ostensibly aim to reduce the purported risks associated with majority decision-making\, they do so at the cost of introducing new liabilities associated with the biased judgments they generate and secure.The Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral  Sciences at UCLA. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/marschak-colloquium-with-melissa-schwartzberg/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180110T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180110T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T062018 CREATED:20180830T194819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194819Z UID:2332-1515542400-1515542400@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:How I Learned to Embrace Anger and Love the Bomb DESCRIPTION:How I Learned to Embrace Anger and Love the Bomb \nDateJanuary 8\, 2014 \nTime7:00am to 9:30am \nLocation\n11377 Bunche Hall \nContact \n Aggression constitutes an essential element in a great deal of violence. We seek to examine how dispositional aggression influences attitudes toward foreign policy. Secondarily\, we also provide some analysis that interrogates the etiology of aggression. Recent work has begun to examine whether the tendency to engage in physical aggression might have some roots in genetic traits. In combination with particular environmental variables\, certain heritable characteristics appear to predispose certain individuals to a higher risk of responding aggressively to threat. We present results which include an analysis for the effects of sex\, education\, and parental and partner bonding on aggression. In addition\, we undertake a sociological and genetic analysis of traits related to aggression in a large population of Australians\, and their examine effects on attitudes toward foreign policy and moral dilemmas. Integrating genetic and environmental factors to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the effect of aggression on political attitudes and moral values uncovers new possibilities for interventions designed to ameliorate the effects of violence on society. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/how-i-learned-to-embrace-anger-and-love-the-bomb/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180108T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180108T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T062018 CREATED:20180830T194833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194833Z UID:2368-1515369600-1515369600@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Fall Quarter begins/Instruction begins – Monday DESCRIPTION:Fall Quarter begins/Instruction begins – Monday \nDateJanuary 5\, 2015 \nTime6:00am \nLocation \nContact \nFall Quarter begins/Instruction begins – Monday \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/fall-quarter-begins-instruction-begins-monday/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180108T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180108T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T062018 CREATED:20180830T194817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194817Z UID:2331-1515369600-1515369600@polisci.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Evangelical Reform and the Origins of the Modern Constitutional Order DESCRIPTION:Evangelical Reform and the Origins of the Modern Constitutional Order \nDateJanuary 6\, 2014 \nTime4:00am to 5:30am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nIn twenty-first century America\, religion seems to go hand in hand with veneration of the Constitution and its framers. But during the nineteenth century\, deeply religious Americans were almost as likely to condemn the Constitution as to praise it. Why did early religious activists often express disdain for a constitutional inheritance that their twenty-first-century successors regard with awed reverence? The answer\, in short\, is that Americans living in the aftermath of the great religious revivals of the early nineteenth century came to regard as sinful many activities and forms of property – from liquor\, to lottery tickets\, to slavery – that the founding generation had tolerated\, or even actively promoted. In order to rid the nation of sinful forms of property\, evangelicals found it necessary to challenge some of the framers’ most basic constitutional principles\, from their expansive conception of property rights to their commitment to decentralized regulatory authority. Evangelical reform efforts thus helped facilitate the birth of a new constitutional order in which conceptions of property rights and state-federal relations are increasingly viewed as fluid\, socially constructed\, and subject to modification by democratic majorities. In short\, the “living Constitution” which modern-day social conservatives routinely disparage was in no small part the creation of an earlier generation of religious activists. \nEvent Details: \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here: URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/evangelical-reform-and-the-origins-of-the-modern-constitutional-order/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR