AP Workshop - Rocio Titiunik DateNovember 23, 2015 Time3:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact The 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 […]
AP Workshop - Ariel White, MIT DateNovember 21, 2016 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract: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 […]
Pieces of the Craft DateNovember 25, 2015 Time12:00pm Location 4276 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:
REP Reading Group DateNovember 27, 2015 Time4:00pm Location 4280 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:
Comparative Politics Job Talk with Emily Sellars DateDecember 1, 2014 Time12:00pm to 1:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter: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 […]
Pieces of the Craft DateDecember 2, 2015 Time12:00pm Location 4276 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:
Methods Workshop with Branislav Slantchev DateDecember 4, 2014 Time2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter: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 […]
GSC Meeting DateDecember 3, 2015 Time3:30pm Location 4280 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:
Dramatizing Democracy: Crisis, Civic Education, and the Common Good DateDecember 6, 2013 Time8:00am to 9:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact After 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.” […]
Is War Disappearing? DateDecember 6, 2013 Time7:00am to 8:30am Location 11377 Bunche Hall Contact There 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 […]
