Banu Bargu, New School for Social Research
2018-11-02 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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
Location
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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4357 Bunche Hall
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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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UCLA CAPPP Midterm Elections Post-Mortem
2018-11-14 00:00
UCLA CAPPP Midterm Elections Post-Mortem
DateNovember 12, 2014
Time12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location
2125 Rolfe Hall
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info@cappp.ucla.edu
Presenters:Joel Aberbach (moderator), Joe Doherty, John Petrocik, Daron Shaw, Barbara SinclairTitle: “Midterm Elections Post Mortem” sponsored by the UCLA Center for American Politics & Public Policy (CAPPP)Click here to enlarge the flyer,
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Pieces of the Craft
2018-11-14 00:00
Pieces of the Craft
DateNovember 11, 2015
Time12:00pm
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4276 Bunche Hall
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Macro Shifts in Civil War: Government Expansion, Rebel Deployment, and Civilian Displacement in the Vietnam War
2018-11-16 00:00
Macro Shifts in Civil War: Government Expansion, Rebel Deployment, and Civilian Displacement in the Vietnam War
DateNovember 15, 2013
Time7:00am to 8:30am
Location
11377 Bunche Hall
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How a civil war unfolds depends on the key questions of whether rebels can find permanent sanctuary, where the government can maintain authority, and where civilians choose to live. How are these three macro factors related, and how can we rigorously track them over time? I investigate the interaction and trend of these forces in an empirically important and contentious case of counterinsurgency in the later part of the Vietnam War (1966-1972). I introduce a variety of novel measures developed from wartime intelligence estimates, a large scale panel survey that rates conditions across communities, and geospatial measures of human activity. Rather than a static quagmire, trends in rebel base locations, government reach into the countryside, and population movements all point to a highly dynamic and shifting strategic situation. Despite U.S. withdrawal, the evidence points toward a country-wide consolidation of government power, consistent with government victory. The results provide insight into the contemporary optimism about Vietnamization of the war and the strategic necessity rebel groups face to escalate an irregular conflict to a conventional conflict.
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International Law/IR Workshop with Christopher Whytock
2018-11-16 00:00
International Law/IR Workshop with Christopher Whytock
DateNovember 14, 2014
Time2:00pm to 3:30pm
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4357 Bunche Hall
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Presenter:Christopher A. Whytock (UC Irvine, School of Law)Title: “From International Law and International Relations to Law and World Politics”Abstract:International relations (IR) scholars now widely agree that law matters in world politics. But so far they have focused almost exclusively on one type of law—public international law—and primarily on one aspect of world politics—international relations. I argue that by doing so IR scholars are missing types of law that are equally if not more important to international relations than public international law. Moreover, by neglecting types of law that are important to transnational relations—that is, the cross-border activity of private actors—IR scholarship on international law is behind the more general trend in IR scholarship away from state-centric approaches toward more holistic analyses of world politics. I therefore advocate a move from the study of international law and international relations (IL/IR) to a research agenda on law and world politics (L/WP). As a step in that direction, this paper focuses on two fields of law that are largely missing in IR research—foreign relations law and private international law—and explains how they matter in world politics and how a better understanding of them will help IR scholars advance knowledge of international cooperation, international conflict, and global governance.Paper: Click here to download.
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REP Reading Group
2018-11-16 00:00
REP Reading Group
DateNovember 13, 2015
Time4:00pm
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4280 Bunche Hall
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REP Workshop - Edwina Barrosa
2018-11-16 00:00
REP Workshop – Edwina Barrosa
DateNovember 13, 2015
Time4:00pm to 6:00pm
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4357 Bunche Hall
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Offering an interdisciplinary analysis of US public engagement on LGBT issues, Edwina Barvosa proposes that the rapid evolution in public support for LGBT civil rights has taken place through large-scale deliberative systems assembled by Americans themselves through existing social networks. This publicly driven democratization required three types of deliberative catalysts—each helping to circumvent anti-gay bias, including conscious and unconscious bias. Lessons drawn from the LGBT case further suggest that these three deliberative catalysts could foster transformative public deliberation on racial bias, especially bias that contributes to violence.
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American Politics Workshop with John Bullock
2018-11-19 00:00
American Politics Workshop with John Bullock
DateNovember 17, 2014
Time3:00pm
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4357 Bunche Hall
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Presenter:John Bullock, Yale UniversityTitle: “Education and Attitudes toward Redistribution in the United States.”Abstract:Americans increasingly favor education as a solution to the problem of income inequality. But little attention has been paid to the effects of education on attitudes toward inequality and redistribution. This paper examines those effects. It presents results based on longitudinal and repeated cross-sectional data which suggest that, on average, secondary education makes Americans more accepting of economic inequality and less favorable toward redistribution. There is thus an irony to the popularity of education as a remedy for inequality: even as education reduces inequality in some ways, it may promote inequality by promoting opposition to major redistributive programs.Click here to download the paper.
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REP Workshop - Tianna Paschel, UC Berkeley
2018-11-19 00:00
REP Workshop – Tianna Paschel, UC Berkeley
DateNovember 14, 2016
Time3:00pm to 4:30pm
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4357 Bunche Hall
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Abstract:After decades of denying racism and underplaying cultural diversity, Latin American states began adopting transformative ethno-racial legislation in the late 1980s. In addition to symbolic recognition of indigenous peoples and black populations, governments in the region created a more pluralistic model of citizenship and made significant reforms in the areas of land, health, education, and development policy. Becoming Black Political Subjects explores this shift from color blindness to ethno-racial legislation in two of the most important cases in the region: Colombia and Brazil. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research, Tianna Paschel shows how, over a short period, black movements and their claims went from being marginalized to become institutionalized into the law, state bureaucracies, and mainstream politics. The strategic actions of a small group of black activists—working in the context of domestic unrest and the international community’s growing interest in ethno-racial issues—successfully brought about change. Paschel also examines the consequences of these reforms, including the institutionalization of certain ideas of blackness, the reconfiguration of black movement organizations, and the unmaking of black rights in the face of reactionary movements.Introduction can be found here
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Michael Albertus
2018-11-19 00:00
Michael Albertus
DateNovember 13, 2017
Time12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location
4357 Bunche Hall
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Belinda SunnuPhone 3102067558bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu
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CP Workshop - Daniela Campello
2018-11-20 00:00
CP Workshop – Daniela Campello
DateNovember 17, 2015
Time12:30pm
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4357 Bunche Hall
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CMED Seminar Honoring Prof. Emeritus Leonard
2018-11-21 00:00
CMED Seminar Honoring Prof. Emeritus Leonard
DateNovember 19, 2014
Time1:30pm to 4:00pm
Location
Sequoia Room, UCLA Faculty Center
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Presenter:Steven Spiegel, Chris Erickson, Lisa Blaydes, Lawrence Rubin, Abdulkader Sinno, Heidi Lane, Robert Bianchi, Amanda Rizkallah, Jerrold Green, Richard Anderson, John Zaller, Yvette Hovsepian- Bearce, Jeff Lewis, Leonard BinderTitle: “Five Decades of Middle East Studies”Honoring Professor Leonard BinderDescription:Leading specialists discuss: “Iran’s Changing Role in the Region,” “The Power of Weak States,” and “The Future of the Middle East,” followed by “Tribute to Professor Leonard Binder” – featuring his former students and colleagues.This event is a part of the Center for Middle Eastern Development Seminar Series, co-sponsored with UCLA’s Political Science Department, International Institute, and the Center for Near Eastern Studies.For more information and RSVP information on the event, click here.
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Pieces of the Craft
2018-11-21 00:00
Pieces of the Craft
DateNovember 18, 2015
Time12:00pm
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4276 Bunche Hall
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Felony Status, Participation, and Political Reintegration: Results from a field experiment
2018-11-22 00:00
Felony Status, Participation, and Political Reintegration: Results from a field experiment
DateNovember 21, 2013
Time4:00am to 5:30am
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4357 Bunche Hall
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How 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.
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Recruitment Job Talk with Brandon Stewart
2018-11-22 00:00
Recruitment Job Talk with Brandon Stewart
DateNovember 20, 2014
Time12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location
4357 Bunche Hall
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Presenter: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.
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