UCLA Political Science

James Lo
2018-10-22 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
James Lo
DateOctober 16, 2017
Time12:00pm to 1:30pm
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4357 Bunche Hall
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Belinda SunnuPhone 3102067558bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu
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2nd Annual Wolfenstein Memorial Lecture
2018-10-25 00:00
2nd Annual Wolfenstein Memorial Lecture
DateOctober 23, 2014
Time4:30pm
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Faculty CenterCalifornia RoomUCLA CampusParking available for $12 in Structure 2
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Kelli A O’LearyPhone 310-825-4038koleary@support.ucla.edu
E. Victor Wolfenstein Memorial Lecture “Fugitives’ Democracy: The Political Worlds of Toni Morrison’s Essays and Fiction”Presented byKatharine Lawrence Balfour, Professor of Politics, University of VirginiaThis lecture will be streamed live beginning at 4:30 p.m. PST, here.Abstract “I can’t wait for the ultimate liberation theory to imagine its practice and do its work.” Challenging both the wishful thinking of liberal color-blindness and the cynicism of post-civil rights era complaints that it is time to “get over” race, Toni Morrison asks what democracy demands of us in the shadow of slavery and Jim Crow. This lecture traces Morrison’s political thought by focusing on the work of fugitives and the meaning of responsibility in her art. Morrison draws on the heritage of the fugitive slaves—whose self-authorization not only produced the rich literary tradition of which she is a part but also played a pivotal role in redefining American freedom—to track how African Americans have contended with white attributions to them of both the absence and the excess of responsibility. At a time when the political language of “personal responsibility” plays a crucial role in reinforcing the racial hierarchies it denies, Morrison charts a more democratic course and elicits readers’ judgment of our responsibilities as citizens and human beings. Bio Lawrie Balfour is Professor and Interim Chair of Politics at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Democracy’s Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W. E. B. Du Bois, The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy, and numerous articles on race, democracy, and literature. Balfour has held fellowships from the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard Divinity School, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. A recipient of multiple teaching awards, she has served as a visiting professor at Princeton University and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Currently, she is writing a book about reparations for slavery and Jim Crow. E. Victor Wolfenstein Memorial Lecture Established by the friends and family of E. Victor Wolfenstein following his death in 2010, the Wolfenstein Memorial Lecture brings a leading scholar to UCLA each year to speak on a subject in one of Victor’s many fields of research, which included African-American thought and politics, Ancient Greek political theory, psychoanalysis and Marxism among others. The lecture creates an opportunity for faculty, students, and the broader community to come together to consider the fundamental questions of justice, race, history, and their representation in theory, music and literature that animated Victor’s work. The lecture also serves as a venue to recognize undergraduates who have excelled in the Political Science 10: Introduction to Political Theory, a staple of Victor’s teaching. In addition to being named as Wolfenstein Fellows, these students have the opportunity to meet with the lecturer at a private dinner. E. Victor Wolfenstein was Professor of Political Science at UCLA from 1965 to 2010. During that time, Victor taught political theory, critical thinking, and radical ideas to generations of UCLA undergraduates. With his unique teaching style that at times included his guitar, Victor won a strong student following and numerous university teaching awards. He was also a renowned scholar and author of seven books and many shorter works, most importantly The Victims of Democracy, Inside/Outside Nietzsche, A Gift of the Spirit and Talking Books.
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American Politics Workshop with Larry Bartels
2018-10-26 00:00
American Politics Workshop with Larry Bartels
DateOctober 24, 2014
Time12:30pm to 2:00pm
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4357 Bunche Hall
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Presenter:Larry Bartels, Vanderbilt UniversityTitle: “Democracy for Realists”Overview:Prof. Bartels’ presentation will address the promise and pitfalls of “retrospective voting,” in which voters reward or punish incumbents for past performance. While the approach sounds appealing, findings detailed in his upcoming book — “Democracy for Realists” (co-authored with Prof. Chris Achen of Princeton) – provide evidence that retrospective judgments are often altogether too blind, myopic, and random to reliably select competent leaders.Prof. Bartels is Professor of Political Science and May Werthan Shayne Chair of Public Policy and Social Science at Vanderbilt University, where he also directs the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. He is the author of several books on democracy, elections and voting.
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Political Theory Workshop
2018-10-26 00:00
Political Theory Workshop
DateOctober 23, 2015
Time4:00pm to 6:00pm
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Bunche Hall 4357 (Conference Room)
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Panel Discussion: Jobs At Teaching-Oriented Institutions
2018-10-26 00:00
Panel Discussion: Jobs At Teaching-Oriented Institutions
DateOctober 21, 2016
Time3:00pm to 5:00pm
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4357 Bunche Hall
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Josiah Ober
2018-10-26 00:00
Josiah Ober
DateOctober 20, 2017
Time4:00pm to 6:00pm
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4357 Bunche Hall
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Belinda SunnuPhone 3102067558bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu
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Priming Predispositions and Changing Policy Positions: An Account of When Mass Opinion is Primed or Changed
2018-10-29 00:00
Priming Predispositions and Changing Policy Positions: An Account of When Mass Opinion is Primed or Changed
DateOctober 28, 2013
Time5:00am to 6:30am
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4357 Bunche Hall
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Prior research provides limited insights into when political communications prime or change citizens’ underlying opinions. This paper attempts to fill that void by putting forth a new account of priming and opinion change. I argue that crystallized attitudes can often be primed by new information. An influx of attention to less crystalized issues, however, should lead individuals to alter their underlying opinions in accordance with prior beliefs. Since predispositions acquired early in the lifecycle like partisanship, religiosity and group-based affect/antagonisms are more crystallized than mass opinion about public policy, media and campaign content will tend to prime citizens’ predispositions and change their policy positions. Both my review of previous priming research and original analyses presented in this study from five new cases strongly support that crystallization-based account of when mass opinion is primed or changed. I conclude with a discussion of the paper’s potential methodological, political, and normative implications.
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Comparative Politics Workshop with Thad Dunning
2018-10-29 00:00
Comparative Politics Workshop with Thad Dunning
DateOctober 27, 2014
Time12:30pm to 2:00pm
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4357 Bunche Hall
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Presenter:Thad Dunning, UC BerkeleyTitle: “Positive vs. Negative Incentives for Compliance: Evaluating a Randomized Tax Holiday in Uruguay”Abstract:Can positive rather than negative incentives boost tax compliance in developing countries? We study a unique randomized policy innovation in Montevideo, Uruguay, in which the municipal government raffles tax holidays to good taxpayers who are current on past payments. Using unusual access to over-time tax payment records as well as survey data, we assess the impact of holidays on subsequent tax compliance, as well as citizens’ attitudes towards taxation and governance. We also use field and survey experiments to study the effects of informing eligible and ineligible taxpayers about the rebate lottery—which has not been effectively advertised by the government. Our informational treatments allow us to compare the influence of priming negative incentives for tax compliance, such as fines and punishment for non-payment, with the positive inducement provided by the lottery.Paper:Click to download plan and amended plan.
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Nadia E. Brown: "It's More than Hair...That's Why You Should Care"
2018-10-29 00:00
Nadia E. Brown: “It’s More than Hair…That’s Why You Should Care”
DateOctober 24, 2016
Time3:00pm to 4:30pm
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4357 Bunche Hall
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Abstract:African American women female state legislators navigate the politics of appearance differently from others. Black women’s texture and style of their hair and their skin tone influences their experiences as state legislators. In sum, this essay contends that Black women’s appearances have led to experiences that are linked to building their self-confidence, internal fortitude, and building their character, which they attribute to assisting them with dealing with adversities. In turn, these experiences impact their practices as state legislators.Full paper can be found here
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Julia Lee - Practice Job Talk
2018-10-30 00:00
Julia Lee – Practice Job Talk
DateOctober 27, 2015
Time12:30pm to 1:45pm
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4357 Bunche Hall
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Pieces of the Craft
2018-10-31 00:00
Pieces of the Craft
DateOctober 28, 2015
Time12:00pm
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4276 Bunche Hall
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Dimitris Vardoulakis
2018-11-01 00:00
Dimitris Vardoulakis
DateOctober 26, 2017
Time4:00pm to 6:00pm
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4357 Bunche Hall
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Understanding Ethnic Cooperation: Evidence from Experiments in Kenya and Tanzania
2018-11-02 00:00
Understanding Ethnic Cooperation: Evidence from Experiments in Kenya and Tanzania
DateNovember 1, 2013
Time7:00am to 8:30am
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4357 Bunche Hall
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We employ lab experiment data from Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to document the extent of ethnic divisions, and to test whether – and how – ethnic divisions can be rendered less salient. The study employs both standard and novel lab measures, develops new ways to prime both ethnic and national identity, uses implicit association tests to clarify the mechanisms underlying behavior, and employs a pre-analysis plan that specifies hypotheses to generate more credible estimates.
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REP Reading Group
2018-11-02 00:00
REP Reading Group
DateOctober 30, 2015
Time4:00pm
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4280 Bunche Hall
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Banu Bargu, New School for Social Research
2018-11-02 00:00
Banu Bargu, New School for Social Research
DateOctober 28, 2016
Time4:00pm to 6:00pm
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4357 Bunche Hall
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Link to full paper can be found hereTo recieve an email copy of the paper, contact Michelle Rose: mklrose@ucla.edu
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International Relations Workshop with Benjamin Graham
2018-11-05 00:00
International Relations Workshop with Benjamin Graham
DateNovember 3, 2014
Time12:30pm
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4357 Bunche Hall
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Presenter:Benjamin Graham, University of Southern CaliforniaTitle: “Political Risk and New Firm Entry”Abstract:This paper examines how political risk affects the type of multinational firms that enter a given country via foreign direct investment. It first distinguishes between three distinct types of political risk: policy risk, bureaucratic risk, and the risk of political violence. It then develops theory regarding the type of firm that can best mitigate each of these types of risk, and derives testable hypotheses regarding how a country’s political risk profile affects the size and entry mode of the foreign firms it attracts. I test these hypotheses using novel firm-level data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis that cover the full universe of U.S.-outward foreign direct investment from 1990 to 2009. I find that policy risk increases the proportion of inward investment that occurs via Greenfield investment rather via mergers or acquisitions, while bureaucratic risk (e.g. corruption and judicial inefficiency) shifts the population of entering firms toward larger multinationals. The risk of political violence has ambiguous effects.
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AP Workshop - Joshua Clinton
2018-11-05 00:00
AP Workshop – Joshua Clinton
DateNovember 2, 2015
Time3:00pm
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4357 Bunche Hall
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Narayani Lasala-Blanco
2018-11-05 00:00
Narayani Lasala-Blanco
DateOctober 30, 2017
Time12:00pm to 1:30pm
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4357 Bunche Hall
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Belinda SunnuPhone 3102067558bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu
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Amanda Rizkallah - Practice Job Talk
2018-11-06 00:00
Amanda Rizkallah – Practice Job Talk
DateNovember 3, 2015
Time12:30pm
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4357 Bunche Hall
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Charles Taylor Lectures
2018-11-06 00:00
Charles Taylor Lectures
DateNovember 1, 2016
Time5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location
Charles E. Young Research Library, Conference Room 11360
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Discussant: Anthony Pagden (UCLA Political Science)In two lectures at UCLA, Charles Taylor will discuss his most recent book, The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity (Harvard University Press, 2016), as well as his ongoing inquiries into the history and nature of secularism.Charles Taylor is emeritus professor of Philosophy at McGill University and author of more than a dozen books including Sources of the Self (1992) and A Secular Age (2007). Taylor was recently named as the first recipient of the Berggruen Prize by the Los Angeles-based Berggruen Institute.
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Pieces of the Craft
2018-11-07 00:00
Pieces of the Craft
DateNovember 4, 2015
Time12:00pm
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4276 Bunche Hall
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Recruitment Job Talk with Nicholas Valentino
2018-11-08 00:00
Recruitment Job Talk with Nicholas Valentino
DateNovember 6, 2014
Time12:00pm to 1:30pm
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4357 Bunche Hall
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Presenter:Nicholas Valentino, University of MichiganTitle: “News Mediated Threat, Group Empathy, and Racial Gaps in Public Opinion”Abstract:To explain group differences in reactions to mass mediated political threats, we develop Group Empathy Theory. The theory posits empathy felt by members of one minority group can boost policy support for another in reaction to threats, even when the groups are in competition for rights, security, and resources. We conduct three national survey experiments with a total of 2,420 participants in which we manipulate only racial/ethnic cues in ambiguous news media vignettes depicting potential terrorism and immigration threats. Compared to Anglos, African Americans and Latinos exhibit substantially higher levels of group empathy and support for minority groups other than their own. In reaction to these news stories, Anglo respondents were far less likely to side with potentially threatening non-white targets compared to a white target. African Americans, on the other hand, sided with Arab and Latino targets, supported civil rights protections for these minority outgroups, and committed to political action on their behalf. We also examine the measurement characteristics of the group empathy scale, and demonstrate its distinctiveness from social and political predispositions such as ethnocentrism, social dominance orientation, authoritarianism, and partisanship. Finally, we begin to test our claim that group empathy emerges from demographic contextual factors and life experiences unique to minority groups even when they live in racially integrated areas.
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Political Theory Workshop: Panel Discussion
2018-11-09 00:00
Political Theory Workshop: Panel Discussion
DateNovember 7, 2014
Time4:00pm
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4357 Bunche Hall
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Presenter:Panel with: Elisabeth Anker (George Washington University) and Cristina Beltrán (New York University)Title: “Willful Subjects”Overview:The panelists take as their starting point the distributed and material quality of human agency to explore the racialized and gendered dynamics of domination and opportunity, and ask how such practices might expose new resources for political action. Drawing on literature, film, political theory, current events, and social movement literature, they seek to consider how the Left might cultivate a language of agentic power that does not cede the language of individual agency to the Right.View panelists’ topics and abstracts here.Paper: Click here to download Elisabeth Anker’s paper.Click here to download Cristina Beltrán’s paper.
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IR Reading Group
2018-11-09 00:00
IR Reading Group
DateNovember 6, 2015
Time3:00pm to 4:30pm
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4276 Bunche Hall
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REP Reading Group
2018-11-09 00:00
REP Reading Group
DateNovember 6, 2015
Time4:00pm
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4280 Bunche Hall
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AP Workshop - Alexander Hirsch
2018-11-12 00:00
AP Workshop – Alexander Hirsch
DateNovember 9, 2015
Time3:00pm
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4357 Bunche Hall
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AP Workshop - Lynn Vavreck, UCLA / Michael Tesler, UC Irvine
2018-11-12 00:00
AP Workshop – Lynn Vavreck, UCLA / Michael Tesler, UC Irvine
DateNovember 7, 2016
Time12:30pm to 2:00pm
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Ashley Jardina
2018-11-12 00:00
Ashley Jardina
DateNovember 6, 2017
Time12:00pm to 1:30pm
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4357 Bunche Hall
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Belinda SunnuPhone 3102067558bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu
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Fear and Loathing Across Party Lines: New Evidence on Group Polarization
2018-11-13 00:00
Fear and Loathing Across Party Lines: New Evidence on Group Polarization
DateNovember 12, 2013
Time4:15am to 5:45am
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4357 Bunche Hall
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When defined in terms of social identity and affect toward in- and out-groups, the polarization of the American electorate has clearly increased. We document the scope and consequences of affective polarization using implicit, explicit, and behavioral indicators. Our evidence demonstrates not only that hostile feelings for the out-party are ingrained or automatic in voters’ psyches, but also that affective polarization based on party surpasses polarization based on race and other social cleavages. After documenting the extent of implicit party polarization, we show that party cues exert powerful effects on non-political judgments and behaviors. Partisans discriminate against out partisans, and do so to a degree that exceeds discrimination based on race. In concluding, we note that heightened partisan affect and the intrusion of partisan bias into non-political domains means that American parties now resemble the model of the “mass membership” party.
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Anita Kellogg - Practice Job Talk
2018-11-13 00:00
Anita Kellogg – Practice Job Talk
DateNovember 10, 2015
Time12:30pm
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4357 Bunche Hall
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