BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//UCLA Political Science - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:UCLA Political Science
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for UCLA Political Science
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20170312T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20171105T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20180311T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20181104T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20190310T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20191103T090000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181106T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181106T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194854Z
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/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181105T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181105T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194945Z
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/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181105T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181105T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194854Z
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/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181105T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181105T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194828Z
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/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181102T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181102T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194923Z
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/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181102T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181102T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194854Z
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/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181102T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181102T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194822Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194822Z
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/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181101T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181101T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194945Z
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/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181031T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181031T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194853Z
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/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181030T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181030T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194853Z
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/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194922Z
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/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194827Z
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/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194822Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194822Z
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/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194941Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194942Z
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/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194922Z
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/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
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/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194826Z
UID:2351-1540512000-1540512000@polisci.ucla.edu
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/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181025T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181025T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194825Z
UID:2346-1540425600-1540425600@polisci.ucla.edu
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/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181022T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181022T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194944Z
UID:2544-1540166400-1540166400@polisci.ucla.edu
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/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181022T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181022T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194922Z
UID:2488-1540166400-1540166400@polisci.ucla.edu
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/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181022T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181022T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194826Z
UID:2350-1540166400-1540166400@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:International Relations Workshop with Brian Rathbun
DESCRIPTION:International Relations Workshop with Brian Rathbun \nDateOctober 20\, 2014 \nTime12:30pm to 2:00pm \nLocation\nBunche 4357 \nContact \nPresenter:Brian Rathbun\, University of Southern CaliforniaTitle: “Variation in Strategic Rationality”Click here for information on the presenter. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/international-relations-workshop-with-brian-rathbun/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181022T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181022T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194823Z
UID:2341-1540166400-1540166400@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Party Activists as Campaign Advertisers: Why the Ground Campaign Can't Move to the Middle
DESCRIPTION:Party Activists as Campaign Advertisers: Why the Ground Campaign Can’t Move to the Middle \nDateOctober 21\, 2013 \nTime5:00am to 6:30am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nRecent Presidential campaigns have emphasized recruiting workers to engage in direct voter contact. We develop a model of direct contact as a principal-agent problem. Unlike other political activists\, workers engaged in “ground campaign” tactics are not merely a constituency; they are intermediaries between candidates and voters. As intermediaries\, we argue\, they are ill-suited to convey messages to general-election audiences. Through a partnership with Obama’s campaign\, we interviewed approximately 4\,000 workers as they engaged in direct contact. We show that workers who directly engaged swing voters on behalf of the Obama campaign were ideologically extreme\, cared about different issues than the general public\, and misunderstood the issues that voters care about. We further test whether the campaign was able to control its agents by the strategic recruitment or strategic placement of volunteers. We find no evidence that the campaign was able to employ these strategies and overcome its principal-agent problem. We conclude that it is unlikely that the individuals typically willing to act as volunteer surrogates are capable of conveying messages that benefit a strategic campaign. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/party-activists-as-campaign-advertisers-why-the-ground-campaign-cant-move-to-the-middle/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181019T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181019T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194921Z
UID:2486-1539907200-1539907200@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Juliet Hooker\, UT Austin - PT Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Juliet Hooker\, UT Austin – PT Workshop \nDateOctober 14\, 2016 \nTime4:00pm to 6:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/juliet-hooker-ut-austin-pt-workshop/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181019T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181019T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194826Z
UID:2348-1539907200-1539907200@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Political Theory Workshop with Megan Gallagher
DESCRIPTION:Political Theory Workshop with Megan Gallagher \nDateOctober 17\, 2014 \nTime4:00pm \nLocation\nBunche 4357   \nContact \nTitle: “In Excess: Emotional Regimes in Montesquieu’s Lettres Persanes”Presenter: Megan Gallagher Respondent: Anna-Elisabeth ScheidtAbstract: In this paper\, I read Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes as an attempt to theorize a virtuous\, republican alternative to despotic rule. As Montesquieu argues in the Esprit des lois\, fear – specifically fear of the ruler’s emotional and material excesses – dominates the life of the despotic subject. Yet though the despotic state’s parallel in the Lettres\, the seraglio\, is the site of overflowing and barely governed passions\, Montesquieu’s solution to its excesses is not the eradication of emotion. Rather\, he theorizes a transmutation of an excessive and self-regarding emotion – fear – into temperate and other-regarding affective practices that open the possibility of republican government. We see this most clearly in the account of Roxane\, the rebellious wife whose actions precipitate the collapse of the seraglio. I argue that Roxane’s attack at the hands of her husband Usbek and her eventual suicide evoke the republican model established by the Roman matriarch Lucretia. Though not republican actors themselves\, both Lucretia and Roxane anticipate the possibility of a republican future through their inauguration of new emotional regimes and their refusal of fear-based\, despotic politics.Paper: Click here to download.  \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/political-theory-workshop-with-megan-gallagher/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181016T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181016T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194941Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194941Z
UID:2537-1539648000-1539648000@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:BOLLENS-RIES-HOFFENBERG LECTURE
DESCRIPTION:BOLLENS-RIES-HOFFENBERG LECTURE \nDateOctober 10\, 2017 \nTime6:00pm to 9:00pm \nLocation\nCalifornia NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)UCLA Campus \nContact\nCollegeEvents@support.ucla.edu \n Barbara GeddesChair and Professor\, UCLA Department of Political Scienceinvites you to attend the 31st AnnualBOLLENS-RIES-HOFFENBERG LECTURE Fiction When Truth is Stranger Than Fiction: Hollywood in The Trump Era featuring Franklin LeonardFilm Executive and Founder\, The Black List with introduction by Lynn VavreckProfessor of Political Science\, UCLA Tuesday\, October 10\, 2017 at 6:00 p.m.Reception to follow California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)UCLA Campus Parking available for $12 in Parking Structure 9Inquiries: CollegeEvents@support.ucla.eduAbout the SpeakersClick here to learn more about Franklin Leonard and Lynn Vavreck. About the SeriesThe annual series’ aim is to bring together the worlds of academic exploration and practical politics to illuminate discussion of the broader principles and ideas of representative government. Such a synthesis is true to the spirit of the lecture’s honorees – John C. Bollens\, John C. Ries\, and Marvin Hoffenberg – former distinguished professors in UCLA’s Department of Political Science. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/bollens-ries-hoffenberg-lecture/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181015T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181015T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194921Z
UID:2485-1539561600-1539561600@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Swarr Prize Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Swarr Prize Lecture  \nDateOctober 10\, 2016 \nTime12:00pm to 1:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall  \nContact \nAbstract:Scholars have established that the emergence and success of Latinos running for office is primarily driven by district demographics. Nonetheless\, the Latino presence in Congress continues to be limited despite the rapid growth of the Latino population. What\, then\, is driving the disproportionate rates of Latinos in Congress? We argue that candidate-specific characteristics do not disadvantage Latinos in succeeding when running for open-seats\, but their candidacy\, at the pre-emergence stage\, is sensitive to potential challengers and the extent to which Latinos can access party resources. We utilize an original dataset of primary candidates for open-seats from 2004 until 2014 that encompasses data on each congressional district and data specific to the campaign of each Latina/o candidate. Our dataset also includes latent contenders or  “almost-rans” who did not enter the race.  We find that Latino candidates do not underperform in open-seat primary elections because of candidate-specific characteristics. However\, Latinos are predicted to receive fewer resources from both their political party and its network. Our findings indicate that the poor integration of Latinos into partisan networks is largely responsible for their limited presence in Congress.  \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/swarr-prize-lecture/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181015T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181015T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194826Z
UID:2349-1539561600-1539561600@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Comparative Politics Workshop with Jens Hainmueller
DESCRIPTION:Comparative Politics Workshop with Jens Hainmueller \nDateOctober 13\, 2014 \nTime12:30pm to 2:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nTitle: “Do Survey Experiments Capture Real-World Behavior? External Validation of Conjoint and Vignette Analyses with a Natural Experiment”Presenter: Jens HainmuellerAbstract: Survey experiments like vignette and conjoint analyses are widely used in the social sciences to elicit stated preferences and study how humans make multidimensional choices. Yet\, there is a paucity of research on the external validity of these methods that examines whether the determinants that explain hypothetical choices made by survey respondents match the determinants that explain what subjects actually do when making similar choices in real-world situations. This study compares the results from conjoint and vignette analyses on which immigrant attributes generate support for naturalization to closely corresponding behavioral data from a natural experiment in Switzerland\, where some municipalities used referendums to decide on the citizenship applications of foreign residents. Using a representative sample from the same population and the official descriptions of applicant characteristics that voters received before each referendum as a behavioral benchmark\, we find that the effects of the applicant attributes estimated from the survey experiments perform remarkably well in recovering the effects of the same attributes in the behavioral benchmark. We also find important differences in the relative performances of the different designs. Overall\, the paired conjoint design where respondents evaluate two immigrants side-by-side comes closest to the behavioral benchmark; on average its estimates are within 2 percentage points of the effects in the behavioral benchmark.Paper: Click here to download.Click here to download the Supporting Info. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/comparative-politics-workshop-with-jens-hainmueller/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181010T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181010T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194920Z
UID:2484-1539129600-1539129600@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Practice Job Talk: Sarah Brierley
DESCRIPTION:Practice Job Talk: Sarah Brierley \nDateOctober 5\, 2016 \nTime1:00pm to 2:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/practice-job-talk-sarah-brierley/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181009T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181009T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194823Z
UID:2342-1539043200-1539043200@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Do Primary Electorates Polarize Congress?
DESCRIPTION:Do Primary Electorates Polarize Congress? \nDateOctober 8\, 2013 \nTime5:15am to 6:45am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nThe extreme preferences of the citizens who participate in primary elections are often offered as an explanation for divergence between how members of Congress behave and what their constituents would prefer. If candidates must appeal both to a primary electorate with far-from-center policy preferences and a general electorate with more moderate policy preferences\, candidates may diverge from the policies they would support if they only had to win the general election. Despite the appeal of this argument\, most empirical evidence on the effects of primaries finds small to no effects. I use survey data and a hierarchical model to estimate the preferences of Democratic and Republican primary electorates along with the general electorate in each House district across the country. I find that primary electorates diverge substantially in average policy preferences from general electorates\, and my results suggest that primary and general electorate preferences have about equal influence on voting in Congress. I replicate using vote returns in the 2012 Texas senatorial primary. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/do-primary-electorates-polarize-congress/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181008T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181008T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T075804
CREATED:20180830T194920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T194920Z
UID:2483-1538956800-1538956800@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:REP Workshop: Jennifer Merolla (UCR)
DESCRIPTION:REP Workshop: Jennifer Merolla (UCR) \nDateOctober 3\, 2016 \nTime3:00pm to 4:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/rep-workshop-jennifer-merolla-ucr/
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR