Anthony Fowler, University of Chicago DateJanuary 17, 2017 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact The 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 […]
REP Workshop with Monica Varsanyi DateJanuary 22, 2015 Time12:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Race, 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 […]
Marschak Colloquium with Mark Turner DateJanuary 22, 2015 Time3:00pm to 4:30pm Location Contact Contact Information lohmann@ucla.edu Presenter: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 […]
DSS - Sarah Anzia, UC Berkeley DateJanuary 19, 2017 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract: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 […]
REP Workshop - Janelle Wong DateJanuary 22, 2016 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Together, 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 […]
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 […]
