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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181226T000000
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SUMMARY:Winter campus closure begins\, December 24\, 2014 – Wednesday
DESCRIPTION:Winter campus closure begins\, December 24\, 2014 – Wednesday \nDateDecember 24\, 2014 \nTime6:00am \nLocation \nContact \nWinter campus closure begins\, December 24\, 2014 – Wednesday \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/winter-campus-closure-begins-december-24-2014-wednesday/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181221T000000
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CREATED:20180830T194832Z
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UID:2367-1545350400-1545350400@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Fall Quarter ends\, December 19\, 2014 – Friday
DESCRIPTION:Fall Quarter ends\, December 19\, 2014 – Friday \nDateDecember 19\, 2014 \nTime6:00am \nLocation \nContact \nFall Quarter ends\, December 19\, 2014 – Friday \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/fall-quarter-ends-december-19-2014-friday/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181214T000000
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SUMMARY:Demetra Kasimis
DESCRIPTION:Demetra Kasimis  \nDateDecember 8\, 2017 \nTime4:00pm to 6:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone 3102067558bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPaper \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/demetra-kasimis/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181214T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181214T000000
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CREATED:20180830T194831Z
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UID:2365-1544745600-1544745600@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Political Theory Workshop with Ella Myers
DESCRIPTION:Political Theory Workshop with Ella Myers \nDateDecember 12\, 2014 \nTime4:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Ella Myers\, University of UtahRespondent:Kye Barker\, UCLATitle: “Invisible Men: Racial Indifference in Theories of Neoliberalism”About the presenter:Ella Myers (Ph.D. 2006\, Northwestern) is assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Utah with a joint appointment in Gender Studies.  Her research is primarily in the area of democratic theory. She is especially engaged with questions regarding citizen participation\, the distribution of political power\, and practices of collective resistance.  Myers’ current research agenda focuses on contemporary economic conditions in the United States and she is working on a book manuscript entitled Radical Capitalism\, which argues that today’s economic regime is both continuous and discontinuous with previous forms of capitalist society.Abstract:Scholarly work on neoliberalism often fails to address the specific workings of racial caste in the U.S.  Too often such work presents a grand narrative of capitalist exploitation in the 21st century which overlooks racial domination or implies that it is simply a sub-category of class domination. Drawing on work by Michelle Alexander and Loic Wacquant\, this paper argues that racial caste functions today to position black men in the U.S. not merely as exploitable\, but expendable. The problem of black men’s disposability – expressed most graphically in the social acceptance of the state-sanctioned use of discriminatory force\, imprisonment\, and disenfranchisement – points to “the incompleteness of abolition.” The paper argues that understanding the effects of racial caste on black men today requires investigating how capitalism and white supremacy have been linked historically not only by relations of boss/worker but also by relations of owner/owned.Paper:Click here to download. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/political-theory-workshop-with-ella-myers/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181213T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181213T000000
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CREATED:20180830T194831Z
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UID:2364-1544659200-1544659200@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Recruitment Job Talk with Erin Hartman
DESCRIPTION:Recruitment Job Talk with Erin Hartman \nDateDecember 11\, 2014 \nTime12:00pm to 1:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Erin Hartman\, UC BerkeleyTitle: “Call and Non-response: A Design Based Solution for Unit Non-response”Abstract:With the decrease in response rates to surveys\, the potential for differential non-response to bias our estimates of public opinion is growing.  Changing response rates over the course of an election may be able to explain much of the variance observed in stated vote intention during the cycle. I decompose the potential bias into features that can be addressed in the design and post hoc adjustment stage\, and unobservable behavioral bias that must be assumed away. I then consider a new sampling method\, response rate sampling\, that leverages past data on responsiveness to surveys to alleviate bias due to observable imbalance resulting from unit non-response.  This method was used for the internal analytics polling operation during President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.  I will present findings on the dynamics of response rates over the 2012 election cycle\, and how response rate sampling impacts volatility in our measurements and our estimates of public opinion and campaign effects. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/recruitment-job-talk-with-erin-hartman/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181210T000000
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CREATED:20180830T194947Z
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UID:2554-1544400000-1544400000@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Amanda Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Amanda Robinson \nDateDecember 4\, 2017 \nTime12:15pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone 3102067558bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/amanda-robinson/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181207T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181207T000000
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CREATED:20180830T194903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194903Z
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SUMMARY:REP Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:REP Reading Group  \nDateDecember 4\, 2015 \nTime4:00pm \nLocation\n4280 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/rep-reading-group-5/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181207T000000
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SUMMARY:IR Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:IR Reading Group  \nDateDecember 4\, 2015 \nTime3:00pm \nLocation\n4276 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/ir-reading-group-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181207T000000
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SUMMARY:Stacey Greene - Practice Job Talk
DESCRIPTION:Stacey Greene – Practice Job Talk  \nDateDecember 4\, 2015 \nTime1:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/stacey-greene-practice-job-talk/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181207T000000
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CREATED:20180830T194820Z
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UID:2333-1544140800-1544140800@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Is War Disappearing?
DESCRIPTION:Is War Disappearing?  \nDateDecember 6\, 2013 \nTime7:00am to 8:30am \nLocation\n11377 Bunche Hall \nContact \nThere is a large and growing belief\, based on a handful of recent scholarly works\, that the propensity of states to use force against one another is on the decline. I take issue with two lines of argument that support this conclusion. The first is the claim that\, whereas the two World Wars were statistical anomalies\, the “Long Peace” that followed is a meaningful trend: I show that both are very plausibly the result of the same stochastic process. The second is the claim that there is less war now than there was in the recent past: I examine what is meant by war\, control for two confounding influences that resulted from the proliferation of states in the 20th century\, and show that\, taking those considerations into account\, no such trend is evident. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/is-war-disappearing/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181207T000000
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UID:2334-1544140800-1544140800@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Dramatizing Democracy: Crisis\, Civic Education\, and the Common Good
DESCRIPTION:Dramatizing Democracy: Crisis\, Civic Education\, and the Common Good \nDateDecember 6\, 2013 \nTime8:00am to 9:30am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nAfter 9/11\, hope arose that democracy in America would be revitalized. Crisis\, it was said\, “represents an opportunity” for social and political reformation\, and the American people will “come together and rise to the occasion.” I examine the philosophical underpinnings of this familiar rhetoric and the belief that crisis may be good for democracy\, a belief which runs against traditional views that popular governments cannot cope with crises. What is revealed about our understanding of democracy when we dramatize the state of insecurity as its born-again moment? Crisis-based democracy is compelling because it reframes republican civic virtue\, and radical collective action\, in ways compatible with modern society and liberal democracy. This formulation\, I argue\, signifies a transformation of the participatory ideal\, from common people arguing together to the heroic transcendence of partisanship. To analyze the crisis/democracy linkage I consider the surprisingly similar democratic theories of Bruce Ackerman and Sheldon Wolin. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/dramatizing-democracy-crisis-civic-education-and-the-common-good/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181206T000000
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UID:2439-1544054400-1544054400@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:GSC Meeting
DESCRIPTION:GSC Meeting  \nDateDecember 3\, 2015 \nTime3:30pm \nLocation\n4280 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/gsc-meeting-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181206T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181206T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T025427
CREATED:20180830T194832Z
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UID:2366-1544054400-1544054400@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Methods Workshop with Branislav Slantchev
DESCRIPTION:Methods Workshop with Branislav Slantchev \nDateDecember 4\, 2014 \nTime2:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Branislav Slantchev\, UC San DiegoTitle: “Rich Subjects\, Poor Kings: Rebellion Relief and the Ratchet Effect in Taxation”Abstract:Rulers face serious difficulties in their efforts to extract wealth from society through taxation. Historically\, taxation was often not very high and attempts to increase it frequently caused revolts. Over time\, however\, taxation has increased dramatically while violent resistance has virtually disappeared. We present a model that shows how these patterns can be understood as arising from the Crown’s desire to maximize its income from taxation in a context where it is institutionally unconstrained but does not have very good information about the wealth of the subjects it is trying to tax. In this setting\, high tax demands can push poor subjects into violent resistance\, which might provide the Crown with evidence that it needs to lower the tax to acceptable levels (provide tax relief). This possibility\, however\, provides an incentive to the rich subject to join the revolt to take advantage of tax relief and avoid an increase of taxation that willingness to accept might entail in the future (ratchet effect). This interaction is resolved in the Crown settling for taxation that\, depending on its information about the subjects’ wealth\, can be low but peaceful\, moderate but provoking occasional revolts by the poor\, and high but risking that even the rich would join a revolt. As the Crown’s ability to better assess the wealth of its subjects grows\, taxation will increase while violent resistance will decrease even in the absence of an increase in the Crown’s coercive capabilities or its public goods provision. The growth of the state can be understood as a direct consequence of administrative improvements rather than centralization of power\, monopolization of violence\, or provision of public goods.Paper: Click here to download. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/methods-workshop-with-branislav-slantchev/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181205T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181205T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T025427
CREATED:20180830T194902Z
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UID:2438-1543968000-1543968000@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pieces of the Craft
DESCRIPTION:Pieces of the Craft  \nDateDecember 2\, 2015 \nTime12:00pm \nLocation\n4276 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/pieces-of-the-craft-6/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181203T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181203T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T025427
CREATED:20180830T194831Z
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UID:2363-1543795200-1543795200@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Comparative Politics Job Talk with Emily Sellars
DESCRIPTION:Comparative Politics Job Talk with Emily Sellars \nDateDecember 1\, 2014 \nTime12:00pm to 1:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Emily Sellars\, University of Wisconsin–MadisonTitle: “Does Emigration Inhibit Political Reform? Evidence from the Mexican Agrarian Movement\, 1916–1945″Abstract:Does emigration encourage or inhibit political reform? I investigate this question using data from a critical period in Mexican history. Following the Revolution in 1910\, the Mexican government implemented a major redistributive land reform program. The program began during a period of high emigration from Mexico\, but migration patterns were halted and reversed following the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Using a research design similar to a difference-in-differences approach\, I demonstrate that there was a significant acceleration in land redistribution in high- relative to low-emigration states after the shock to emigration opportunities. Drawing on an original formal model and on archival research on the agrarian movement\, I trace this outcome to the role of emigration in reducing political pressure on the government during the 1920s and to the importance of repatriates in the agrarian movement after 1930. These findings have important implications for understanding the political impacts of emigration and their development consequences. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/comparative-politics-job-talk-with-emily-sellars/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181130T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181130T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T025427
CREATED:20180830T194901Z
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UID:2437-1543536000-1543536000@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:REP Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:REP Reading Group  \nDateNovember 27\, 2015 \nTime4:00pm \nLocation\n4280 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/rep-reading-group-4/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181128T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181128T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T025427
CREATED:20180830T194900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194900Z
UID:2436-1543363200-1543363200@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pieces of the Craft
DESCRIPTION:Pieces of the Craft  \nDateNovember 25\, 2015 \nTime12:00pm \nLocation\n4276 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/pieces-of-the-craft-5/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181126T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181126T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T025427
CREATED:20180830T194925Z
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UID:2496-1543190400-1543190400@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:AP Workshop - Ariel White\, MIT
DESCRIPTION:AP Workshop – Ariel White\, MIT \nDateNovember 21\, 2016 \nTime12:30pm to 2:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nAbstract:This paper presents new causal estimates of incarceration’s effect on voting\, using administrative data on criminal sentencing and voter turnout. I use the random case assignment process of a major county court system as a source of exogenous variation in the sentencing of misdemeanor cases. Focusing on misdemeanor defendants allows for generalization to a large pool of people\, as such cases are extremely common. Among first-time misdemeanor defendants\, I find evidence that receiving a short jail sentence decreases voting in the next election by several percentage points. Results differ starkly by race. White defendants show no demobilization\, while Black defendants show a turnout decrease of about 13 percentage points due to jail time. Evidence from pre-arrest voter histories suggest that this difference could be due to racial differences in who is arrested. These results paint a picture of large-scale\, racially-disparate voter demobilization in the wake of incarceration.Full paper can be found here \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/ap-workshop-ariel-white-mit/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181126T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181126T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T025427
CREATED:20180830T194900Z
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UID:2435-1543190400-1543190400@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:AP Workshop - Rocio Titiunik
DESCRIPTION:AP Workshop – Rocio Titiunik  \nDateNovember 23\, 2015 \nTime3:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nThe widespread availability of voter files has changed the study of participation in American politics. However\, many studies calculate voter turnout among registrants\, which may lead to invalid causal inferences if registration rates differ between treatment and control groups. We introduce a sensitivity analysis approach that can be used to assess the potential bias induced by this problem\, which we call differential registration bias\, and illustrate its use with two empirical studies of the effects of voting eligibility on subsequent turnout among young voters. In both cases\, we find that eligibility decreases turnout as a proportion of total registration. However\, these negative effects are highly sensitive to differential registration bias and\, in one study\, change signs when we instead calculate turnout as a proportion of the population. These results suggest the need for scholars to provide rigorous sensitivity analysis as part of any study of voter file data.Paper: PDF \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/ap-workshop-rocio-titiunik/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181123T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181123T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T025427
CREATED:20180830T194942Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194943Z
UID:2540-1542931200-1542931200@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Gayil Talshir
DESCRIPTION:Gayil Talshir \nDateNovember 17\, 2017 \nTime4:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone 3102067558bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/gayil-talshir/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181123T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181123T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T025427
CREATED:20180830T194925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194925Z
UID:2495-1542931200-1542931200@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:PT Workshop - Sharon Krause\, Brown University
DESCRIPTION:PT Workshop – Sharon Krause\, Brown University  \nDateNovember 18\, 2016 \nTime4:00pm to 6:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nThe password-protected paper can be found here \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/pt-workshop-sharon-krause-brown-university/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181123T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181123T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T025427
CREATED:20180830T194900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194900Z
UID:2434-1542931200-1542931200@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:REP Reading
DESCRIPTION:REP Reading  \nDateNovember 20\, 2015 \nTime4:00pm \nLocation\n4280 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/rep-reading/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181123T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181123T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T025427
CREATED:20180830T194859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194859Z
UID:2433-1542931200-1542931200@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:PT Workshop - Jennifer London
DESCRIPTION:PT Workshop – Jennifer London  \nDateNovember 20\, 2015 \nTime4:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/pt-workshop-jennifer-london/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181123T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181123T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T025427
CREATED:20180830T194859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194859Z
UID:2432-1542931200-1542931200@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:IR Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:IR Reading Group  \nDateNovember 20\, 2015 \nTime3:00pm \nLocation\n4276 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/ir-reading-group-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181123T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181123T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T025427
CREATED:20180830T194830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194830Z
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SUMMARY:Recruitment Job Talk with Marko Klasnja
DESCRIPTION:Recruitment Job Talk with Marko Klasnja \nDateNovember 21\, 2014 \nTime12:00pm to 1:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nPresenter:Marko Klasnja\, New York UniversityTitle: “Corruption and the Incumbency Disadvantage: Theory and Evidence”Abstract:Incumbents in many developing democracies face significant disadvantages when seeking reelection\, in stark contrast to the well-known incumbency advantage that exists in the U.S. and other mature democracies. Here I propose and test a new explanation for this incumbency disadvantage: corruption. Formally\, I show that incumbents become more disadvantaged as the cost of committing corruption decreases\, as the quality of the pool of candidates for office deteriorates\, and when gains to corruption increase with time spent in office. I test these hypotheses by developing innovative measures of local corruption in Romania. Identification comes from two discontinuities: (1) national rules tying mayoral salaries to thresholds in town populations that cause jumps in the opportunity cost of corruption and thus its incidence\, and (2) close elections that assign incumbency status to candidates in an as-if random fashion. This strategy provides strong evidence that the large incumbency disadvantage found in Romanian local elections is caused by the incidence of corruption and the large seniority premium to corruption exploited by Romanian mayors. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/recruitment-job-talk-with-marko-klasnja/
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SUMMARY:International Law/IR Workshop with Wayne Sandoltz
DESCRIPTION:International Law/IR Workshop with Wayne Sandoltz \nDateNovember 21\, 2014 \nTime2:00pm to 3:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nPresenter:Wayne Sandoltz\, University of Southern CaliforniaTitle: “Law and Politics in a Trustee Court: Amnesty Laws and the Inter-American System”Abstract:In a series of decisions starting in 2001\, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) has ruled that amnesty laws that create impunity for serious violations of human rights violate the American Convention on Human Rights and other treaties.  In addition\, the IACtHR has\, in some of its decisions\, taken the extraordinary step of nullifying national amnesty laws.  We argue that the work of the Inter-American Court and its partner institution\, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights\, can be understood as that of trustees.  Our central claim is that the Commission and the Court will try to expand the fulfillment of human rights in the Americas but that they modulate their decisions in light of the domestic politico-legal context in respondent states.  The Commission controls the timing of when cases arrive at the Court\, and the Court controls the scope of final decisions. We offer a set of propositions regarding the timing of decisions\, the scope of decisions (narrow versus expansive)\, and the degree to which decisions follow the Court’s existing jurisprudence.  The analysis of all fourteen of the Court’s amnesty decisions is generally consistent with our propositions.Paper: Click here to download. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/international-law-ir-workshop-with-wayne-sandoltz/
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SUMMARY:Electoral Geography\, Strategic Mobilization\, and Implications for Voter Turnout
DESCRIPTION:Electoral Geography\, Strategic Mobilization\, and Implications for Voter Turnout \nDateNovember 22\, 2013 \nTime6:00am to 7:30am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nWhen will parties mobilize the electoral support of low-income voters? This discussion presents evidence that rates of turnout among low-income citizens reflect legislators’ and parties’ electoral incentives to be responsive to the poor\, and that these electoral incentives are determined by electoral geography – the joint geographic distribution of legislative seats and low-income voters across electoral districts. Further\, this discussion demonstrates that under SMD electoral rules\, low-income voters are more likely to vote in those electoral districts in which they are likely to be pivotal. By presenting a strategic mobilization account of voter turnout\, this discussion breaks with current accounts of voter turnout that emphasize facilitative and motivational individual- and system-level factors. Instead\, this discussion argues that low-income voters’ turnout decisions\, in fact\, reflect parties’ electoral incentives to cultivate and mobilize a low-income constituency. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/electoral-geography-strategic-mobilization-and-implications-for-voter-turnout/
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SUMMARY:GSC Meeting
DESCRIPTION:GSC Meeting  \nDateNovember 19\, 2015 \nTime3:30pm \nLocation\n4280 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/gsc-meeting/
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SUMMARY:Recruitment Job Talk with Brandon Stewart
DESCRIPTION:Recruitment Job Talk with Brandon Stewart \nDateNovember 20\, 2014 \nTime12:00pm to 1:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nPresenter:Brandon Stewart\, Harvard University*** Joint Recruitment Search with UCLA Department of Statistics ***Title: “Modeling Social Science Heterogeneity with Latent Factor Regressions”Abstract:In this work\, I present a general framework for regression in the presence of complex dependence structures between units such as in time-series cross-sectional data\, relational/network data\, and spatial data.  These types of data are challenging for standard multilevel models because they involve multiple types of structure (e.g. temporal effects and cross-sectional effects) which are interactive.  I show that interactive latent factor models provide a powerful modeling alternative that can address a wide range of data types.  Although related models have previously been proposed in several different fields\, inference is typically cumbersome and slow. I introduce a class of fast variational inference algorithms that allows for models to be fit quickly and accurately. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/recruitment-job-talk-with-brandon-stewart/
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SUMMARY:Felony Status\, Participation\, and Political Reintegration: Results from a field experiment
DESCRIPTION:Felony Status\, Participation\, and Political Reintegration: Results from a field experiment \nDateNovember 21\, 2013 \nTime4:00am to 5:30am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nHow does American’s high rate of incarceration shape political participation? Few studies have examined the direct effects of incarceration on patterns of political engagement. Answering this question is particularly relevant for the 93% of formerly incarcerated individuals who are eligible to vote. Drawing on new administrative data from Connecticut\, we show that felons vote at much lower rates than comparable non-felons prior to being incarcerated. From this low baseline\, incarceration substantially reduces post-release registration rates and has small and ambiguous effects on post-release voting. Building on these observational findings\, we present evidence from a field experiment showing that a simple informational outreach campaign to released felons can recover a large proportion of the reduction in participation observed following incarceration. The treatment effect estimates imply that efforts to reintegrate released felons into the political process can substantially reduce the participatory consequences of incarceration. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/felony-status-participation-and-political-reintegration-results-from-a-field-experiment/
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