Earning and Learning the Latino Vote: Campaign Effects in 2008 - 2012 DateApril 16, 2014 Time5:00am to 7:00am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Amidst double digit unemployment in the Latino community, Barack Obama nevertheless made substantial gains in the Latino vote in 2012. This project explores how candidates adapt and learn new strategies in targeted […]
Swarr Prize Lecture: Libby Barringer DateApril 21, 2014 Time12:15pm to 1:45pm Location Contact UCLA Department of Political Scienceinvites you to the Speaker SeriespresentingLibby BarringerUCLA Political Science, Ph.D. Candidatewho is the 2011 recipient ofThe Swarr Prize"A Vocation Unto Death: Mortality and Politics in Max Weber's Thought" Monday, April 21, 201412:15 – 1:45 PM 4357 Bunche Hall ABSTRACT:In this paper […]
A Vocation Unto Death: Mortality and Politics in Max Weber's Thought DateApril 21, 2014 Time5:15am to 6:45am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Libby Barringer is the 2011 recipient of the Swarr Price. In this paper I take up Max Weber’s familiar interpretation of disenchanted modernity and the problem it poses for meaningful life—and in particular […]
International Relations Workshop with Barbara F. Walter DateApril 20, 2015 Time12:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter:Barbara F. Walter, UC San DiegoTitle: “The Logic of Rebel Strategies in Civil War”Abstract: paper … is part of a book about rebel groups and how competition affects their behavior during civil wars. It starts from […]
IR Workshop - Brandon Kinne, UC Davis DateApril 17, 2017 Time3:00pm to 4:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract:Why do states join international organizations (IOs)? Cooperation theory offers a number of plausible answers to this question. However, empirical analysis of IOs has not kept pace with theory. We identify three key limitations in existing empirical […]
Hobbes and Natural Law in Context DateApril 25, 2014 Time9:00am to 10:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Early-to-mid-seventeenth century Englishmen (1620-51) debated and contested natural law within what I call the Pauline framework. After unearthing this framework, I locate Hobbes's account of natural law within it and discuss how this reading of Hobbesian natural law […]