Evangelical Reform and the Origins of the Modern Constitutional Order DateJanuary 6, 2014 Time4:00am to 5:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact In twenty-first century America, religion seems to go hand in hand with veneration of the Constitution and its framers. But during the nineteenth century, deeply religious Americans were almost as likely to condemn the […]

Fall Quarter begins/Instruction begins – Monday DateJanuary 5, 2015 Time6:00am Location Contact Fall Quarter begins/Instruction begins – Monday Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:

How I Learned to Embrace Anger and Love the Bomb DateJanuary 8, 2014 Time7:00am to 9:30am Location 11377 Bunche Hall Contact Aggression constitutes an essential element in a great deal of violence. We seek to examine how dispositional aggression influences attitudes toward foreign policy. Secondarily, we also provide some analysis that interrogates the etiology of […]

Marschak Colloquium with Melissa Schwartzberg DateJanuary 8, 2015 Time3:00pm Location Young Research Library, Conference Room 11360 Contact Contact Information lohmann@ucla.edu Presenter:Melissa Schwartzberg, New York University PoliticsHost:Giulia Sissa, UCLA Political Science & ClassicsTitle: "Counting the Many: The Origins and Limits of Supermajority Rule”Abstract:Supermajority rules govern many features of our lives in common: from the selection of textbooks […]

Campaigning Online: Web Display Ads in the 2012 Presidential Campaign DateJanuary 13, 2014 Time4:00am to 5:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Although much of what we know about political advertising comes from the study of television advertising alone, online advertising is an increasingly prominent part of political campaigning. Research on other online political communication—especially candidate […]

Sissa: Gendered Politics Conference DateJanuary 13, 2016 Time8:00am to 5:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:

Saad Gulzar, New York University DateJanuary 11, 2017 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall  Contact Abstract:What motivates people to seek political office? What role does the social context play in the candidacy decision? In a field experiment, we increase the salience of personal reasons for running for political office – such as gaining respect […]

Immigrant/Native Born Contact, Trust and Civic Engagement DateJanuary 14, 2016 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall  Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:

Jessica Stanton, University of Pennsylvania DateJanuary 12, 2017 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall  Contact Abstract:Do rebel group violations of international humanitarian law during civil war – in particular, attacks on noncombatant civilians – affect conflict outcomes?  I argue that in the post-Cold War era, rebel groups who do not target civilians have been able to […]

PT Workshop - William Stahl, UCLA DateJanuary 13, 2017 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall  Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:

Juliet Williams DateJanuary 15, 2016 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:

Anthony Fowler, University of Chicago DateJanuary 17, 2017 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall  Contact The talk will be based on two papers, available here and here. Abstract:Congressional committees are thought to play a central role in policymaking and the distribution of federal spending, and seats on important committees such as Appropriations or Ways and Means are highly […]

DSS - Sarah Anzia, UC Berkeley DateJanuary 19, 2017 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall  Contact Abstract:A subversive line of new scholarship in American politics argues that interest groups need to be brought to the analytic center of the field once again.  This paper attempts to further that agenda.  We reconnect with an older […]

REP Workshop with Monica Varsanyi DateJanuary 22, 2015 Time12:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Race, Ethnicity, and Politics WorkshopPresenter:Monica W. Varsanyi, CUNY Graduate CenterTitle: "Divergent States: Explaining Immigration Policy Trajectories in New Mexico and Arizona”About the Speaker:Varsanyi is Associate Professor of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University […]

Marschak Colloquium with Mark Turner DateJanuary 22, 2015 Time3:00pm to 4:30pm Location Contact Contact Information lohmann@ucla.edu Presenter:Mark Turner, Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science, Case Western Reserve UniversityHost:Francis Steen, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, UCLATitle: "The Origin of Ideas: Blending, Creativity, and the Human Spark"Abstract:Other species have abilities we do not they can fly, spin […]

REP Workshop - Janelle Wong DateJanuary 22, 2016 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Together, Asian American and Latino evangelicals constitute a growing proportion of evangelicals in the United States. Their numbers are surely going to increase as new immigrants enter the United States from Asia and Latin America and the number of […]

American Politics Workshop with Jessica Trounstine DateJanuary 26, 2015 Time3:00pm to 4:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter:Jessica Trounstine, UC MercedTitle: "In it Together: The Segregation of Public Goods"Abstract:Research has made clear that among the major contributors to persistent inequality are the shackles (and privileges) that residential location bestows.  The neighborhood and […]

CP Workshop - Melissa Rogers DateJanuary 25, 2016 Time12:30pm to 2:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Government revenue is a necessary condition for fiscal redistribution. For nearly all nations, therefore, tax capacity is strongly related to redistributive outcomes. However, recent research suggests that the development of tax capacity is endogenous to elites’ concerns about inequality […]

Saumitra Jha, Stanford University DateJanuary 24, 2017 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall  Contact Abstract:Financial markets expose individuals to the broader economy. Does participation in financial markets also lead citizens to re-evaluate the costs of conflict, their views on politics and even their voting decisions? Prior to the 2015 Israeli elections, we randomly assigned […]

Comparative Politics Workshop with Kenneth Scheve DateJanuary 28, 2015 Time12:00pm to 1:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter:Kenneth Scheve, Stanford UniversityTitle:"Taxing the Rich: Fairness and Fiscal Sacrifice Over Two Centuries”About the Presenter:Kenneth Scheve is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute. His […]

REP Workshop with Christopher Lebron DateJanuary 29, 2015 Time12:00pm to 1:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Race, Ethnicity, and Politics WorkshopPresenter:Christopher Lebron, Yale UniversityTitle: "The Sense and Sensibility of Equality”About the Speaker:Christopher Lebron is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Philosophy.Abstract:Theories of justice have typically focused on the question of institutional […]

PT Workshop - Megan Thomas, UC Santa Cruz DateJanuary 27, 2017 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall  Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:

Explaining Authoritarian Collapse through Public Opinion Surveys: Evidence from Poland (1985-1989) DateJanuary 31, 2014 Time6:00am to 7:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact In this paper we take advantage of a unique set of surveys from late-communist Poland to address the question how anti-communist attitudes developed in the years leading up to the fall of communism […]

The Political Polarization of America’s Physicians DateJanuary 31, 2014 Time8:00am to 9:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Click here to download the presentation slides (paper not available): http://www.polisci.ucla.edu/workshops/speaker-series-papers/Doctors_UCLA_JAN_2014.pptx Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here: