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SUMMARY:Fear and Loathing Across Party Lines: New Evidence on Group Polarization
DESCRIPTION:Fear and Loathing Across Party Lines: New Evidence on Group Polarization \nDateNovember 12\, 2013 \nTime4:15am to 5:45am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nWhen 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. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/fear-and-loathing-across-party-lines-new-evidence-on-group-polarization/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181112T000000
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SUMMARY:Ashley Jardina
DESCRIPTION:Ashley Jardina \nDateNovember 6\, 2017 \nTime12:00pm to 1:30pm \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/ashley-jardina/
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UID:2493-1541980800-1541980800@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:AP Workshop - Lynn Vavreck\, UCLA / Michael Tesler\, UC Irvine
DESCRIPTION:AP Workshop – Lynn Vavreck\, UCLA / Michael Tesler\, UC Irvine  \nDateNovember 7\, 2016 \nTime12:30pm to 2:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/ap-workshop-lynn-vavreck-ucla-michael-tesler-uc-irvine/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181112T000000
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UID:2424-1541980800-1541980800@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:AP Workshop - Alexander Hirsch
DESCRIPTION:AP Workshop – Alexander Hirsch  \nDateNovember 9\, 2015 \nTime3:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/ap-workshop-alexander-hirsch/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181109T000000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194856Z
UID:2423-1541721600-1541721600@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:REP Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:REP Reading Group  \nDateNovember 6\, 2015 \nTime4:00pm \nLocation\n4280 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/rep-reading-group-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181109T000000
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UID:2422-1541721600-1541721600@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:IR Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:IR Reading Group  \nDateNovember 6\, 2015 \nTime3:00pm to 4:30pm \nLocation\n4276 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/ir-reading-group/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181109T000000
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UID:2353-1541721600-1541721600@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Political Theory Workshop: Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Political Theory Workshop: Panel Discussion \nDateNovember 7\, 2014 \nTime4:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nPresenter: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. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/political-theory-workshop-panel-discussion/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181108T000000
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UID:2355-1541635200-1541635200@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Recruitment Job Talk with Nicholas Valentino
DESCRIPTION:Recruitment Job Talk with Nicholas Valentino \nDateNovember 6\, 2014 \nTime12:00pm to 1:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nPresenter: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. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/recruitment-job-talk-with-nicholas-valentino/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181107T000000
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UID:2421-1541548800-1541548800@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pieces of the Craft
DESCRIPTION:Pieces of the Craft  \nDateNovember 4\, 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-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181106T000000
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UID:2487-1541462400-1541462400@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Charles Taylor Lectures
DESCRIPTION:Charles Taylor Lectures \nDateNovember 1\, 2016 \nTime5:00pm to 6:30pm \nLocation\nCharles E. Young Research Library\, Conference Room 11360 \nContact \nDiscussant: 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. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/charles-taylor-lectures/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181106T000000
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UID:2420-1541462400-1541462400@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Amanda Rizkallah - Practice Job Talk
DESCRIPTION:Amanda Rizkallah – Practice Job Talk  \nDateNovember 3\, 2015 \nTime12:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/amanda-rizkallah-practice-job-talk/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181105T000000
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UID:2548-1541376000-1541376000@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Narayani Lasala-Blanco
DESCRIPTION:Narayani Lasala-Blanco \nDateOctober 30\, 2017 \nTime12:00pm to 1:30pm \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/narayani-lasala-blanco/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181105T000000
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UID:2419-1541376000-1541376000@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:AP Workshop - Joshua Clinton
DESCRIPTION:AP Workshop – Joshua Clinton  \nDateNovember 2\, 2015 \nTime3:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/ap-workshop-joshua-clinton/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181105T000000
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UID:2354-1541376000-1541376000@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:International Relations Workshop with Benjamin Graham
DESCRIPTION:International Relations Workshop with Benjamin Graham \nDateNovember 3\, 2014 \nTime12:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nPresenter: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. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/international-relations-workshop-with-benjamin-graham/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181102T000000
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UID:2491-1541116800-1541116800@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Banu Bargu\, New School for Social Research
DESCRIPTION:Banu Bargu\, New School for Social Research  \nDateOctober 28\, 2016 \nTime4:00pm to 6:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nLink to full paper can be found hereTo recieve an email copy of the paper\, contact Michelle Rose: mklrose@ucla.edu \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/banu-bargu-new-school-for-social-research/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181102T000000
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DTSTAMP:20260419T010045
CREATED:20180830T194854Z
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UID:2418-1541116800-1541116800@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:REP Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:REP Reading Group  \nDateOctober 30\, 2015 \nTime4:00pm \nLocation\n4280 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/rep-reading-group/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181102T000000
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UID:2339-1541116800-1541116800@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Understanding Ethnic Cooperation: Evidence from Experiments in Kenya and Tanzania
DESCRIPTION:Understanding Ethnic Cooperation: Evidence from Experiments in Kenya and Tanzania \nDateNovember 1\, 2013 \nTime7:00am to 8:30am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nWe 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. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/understanding-ethnic-cooperation-evidence-from-experiments-in-kenya-and-tanzania/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181101T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181101T000000
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CREATED:20180830T194944Z
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UID:2546-1541030400-1541030400@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Dimitris Vardoulakis
DESCRIPTION:Dimitris Vardoulakis \nDateOctober 26\, 2017 \nTime4:00pm to 6:00pm \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/dimitris-vardoulakis/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181031T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181031T000000
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UID:2417-1540944000-1540944000@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pieces of the Craft
DESCRIPTION:Pieces of the Craft  \nDateOctober 28\, 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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181030T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181030T000000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010045
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UID:2416-1540857600-1540857600@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Julia Lee - Practice Job Talk
DESCRIPTION:Julia Lee – Practice Job Talk  \nDateOctober 27\, 2015 \nTime12:30pm to 1:45pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/julia-lee-practice-job-talk/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T000000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010045
CREATED:20180830T194922Z
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UID:2490-1540771200-1540771200@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Nadia E. Brown: "It's More than Hair...That's Why You Should Care"
DESCRIPTION:Nadia E. Brown: “It’s More than Hair…That’s Why You Should Care” \nDateOctober 24\, 2016 \nTime3:00pm to 4:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nAbstract: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 \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/nadia-e-brown-its-more-than-hair-thats-why-you-should-care/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T000000
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CREATED:20180830T194827Z
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UID:2352-1540771200-1540771200@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Comparative Politics Workshop with Thad Dunning
DESCRIPTION:Comparative Politics Workshop with Thad Dunning \nDateOctober 27\, 2014 \nTime12:30pm to 2:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nPresenter: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. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/comparative-politics-workshop-with-thad-dunning/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T000000
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UID:2340-1540771200-1540771200@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Priming Predispositions and Changing Policy Positions: An Account of When Mass Opinion is Primed or Changed
DESCRIPTION:Priming Predispositions and Changing Policy Positions: An Account of When Mass Opinion is Primed or Changed \nDateOctober 28\, 2013 \nTime5:00am to 6:30am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nPrior 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. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/priming-predispositions-and-changing-policy-positions-an-account-of-when-mass-opinion-is-primed-or-changed/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T000000
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CREATED:20180830T194941Z
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UID:2538-1540512000-1540512000@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Josiah Ober
DESCRIPTION:Josiah Ober \nDateOctober 20\, 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/josiah-ober/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T000000
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CREATED:20180830T194922Z
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UID:2489-1540512000-1540512000@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: Jobs At Teaching-Oriented Institutions
DESCRIPTION:Panel Discussion: Jobs At Teaching-Oriented Institutions  \nDateOctober 21\, 2016 \nTime3:00pm to 5:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/panel-discussion-jobs-at-teaching-oriented-institutions/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T000000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010045
CREATED:20180830T194852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194852Z
UID:2415-1540512000-1540512000@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Political Theory Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Political Theory Workshop \nDateOctober 23\, 2015 \nTime4:00pm to 6:00pm \nLocation\nBunche Hall 4357 (Conference Room) \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/political-theory-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T000000
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SUMMARY:American Politics Workshop with Larry Bartels
DESCRIPTION:American Politics Workshop with Larry Bartels \nDateOctober 24\, 2014 \nTime12:30pm to 2:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nPresenter: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. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/american-politics-workshop-with-larry-bartels/
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SUMMARY:2nd Annual Wolfenstein Memorial Lecture
DESCRIPTION:2nd Annual Wolfenstein Memorial Lecture \nDateOctober 23\, 2014 \nTime4:30pm \nLocation\nFaculty CenterCalifornia RoomUCLA CampusParking available for $12 in Structure 2 \nContact\nContact Information\nKelli A O’LearyPhone 310-825-4038koleary@support.ucla.edu \n 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. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/2nd-annual-wolfenstein-memorial-lecture/
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SUMMARY:James Lo
DESCRIPTION:James Lo \nDateOctober 16\, 2017 \nTime12:00pm to 1:30pm \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/james-lo/
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SUMMARY:Sarah Anzia\, UC Berkeley - AP Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Anzia\, UC Berkeley – AP Workshop \nDateOctober 17\, 2016 \nTime12:30pm to 2:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nAbstract:The idea that public policy is biased in favor of groups of citizens who vote at high rates is central to scholarship on American politics\, but few studies have actually tested it. In this paper\, I carry out a test of the expected turnout-policy connection that leverages variation in the turnout of senior citizens in city elections and the senior-friendliness of city transportation policy. Surprisingly\, my results do not support the conventional wisdom: I find no significant association between the percentage of seniors in the electorate and better transportation for seniors. I then use this null finding as a launching pad for developing expectations about the conditions under which a group of citizens will influence policy. In a second round of empirical tests\, I find support for those expectations: transportation policies are friendlier to seniors in cities where senior citizens are a cohesive\, politically-focused group\, and where they engage in political activities other than voting. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/sarah-anzia-uc-berkeley-ap-workshop/
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