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 […]
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 […]
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:
International Relations Workshop with Michaela Mattes DateFebruary 2, 2015 Time12:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter:Michaela Mattes, UC BerkeleyTitle: “Chipping Away at the Issues: Does a Piecemeal Approach to Dispute Settlement Work?”Abstract:Disputants often have the option to resolve their disagreements in a series of partial settlements, addressing a subset of the issues […]
American Politics Workshop with Anthony Fowler DateFebruary 2, 2015 Time3:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter:Anthony Fowler, University of ChicagoTitle:"A Bayesian Explanation for Incumbency Advantage"Abstract: Incumbents perform significantly better in elections just because they are incumbents, yet the most commonly proposed explanations for this phenomenon are unsatisfying and inconsistent with empirical […]
Protecting the Polls: The Effect of Observers on Election Fraud DateFebruary 3, 2014 Time4:00am to 5:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Do domestic election observers deter electoral fraud? And under what conditions do political parties respond to the presence of observers to negate their impact? We address these questions by studying observers’ effects on two […]
Comparative Politics Workshop with James Kung DateFebruary 5, 2015 Time12:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter: James Kai-sing Kung, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Title: "Do Land Revenue Windfalls Create a Political Resource Curse? Evidence from China” Abstract: By analyzing a panel on the political turnovers of 4,390 county […]
Cristina Beltran, New York University DateFebruary 2, 2017 Time12:00pm to 1:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract:From Brexit to the election of Donald Trump, our politics are increasingly defined by anxieties over the meaning and limits of sovereignty. This paper argues for placing Latinos at the center of our racial analysis in order to better […]
Methods Workshop - Groeling/Li/Zhu DateFebruary 8, 2016 Time3:30pm to 5:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Media news plays a vital role in informing citizens, affecting public opinion, and influencing policy making. The flow of information in society is an important topic in social and political science research, but the sheer volume of news data has made manual […]
Comparative Politics Workshop with Lisa Blaydes DateFebruary 9, 2015 Time12:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter:Lisa Blaydes, Stanford UniversityTitle: "Compliance and Resistance in Iraq under Saddam Hussein: Evidence from the Files of the Ba`th Party”Abstract:What explains patterns of compliance with and resistance to autocratic rule? This paper provides a theoretical framework for […]
CP Workshop - Jessica Gottlieb, Texas A&M University DateFebruary 6, 2017 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract: Contrary to much of the empirical literature, we find that increases in political competition in one new democracy actually decrease the provision of publicly-provided goods. This result is not especially surprising in light of the widespread […]
IL/IR Workshop - Laurence Helfer DateFebruary 12, 2016 Time2:00pm to 4:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:
PT Workshop - Jeanne Morefield DateFebruary 12, 2016 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:
PT Workshop - Sankar Muthu, University of Chicago DateFebruary 10, 2017 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:
IR Workshop - Lauren Prather, UC San Diego DateFebruary 13, 2017 Time3:00pm to 4:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract:What explains variation in individual preferences for foreign economic engagement? Although much ink has been spilled on that question, little research examines how potential partner countries affect public opinion on policies such as trade, foreign aid, […]
AP Workshop - Jon Rogowski, Harvard University DateFebruary 13, 2017 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract:Though economic development is commonly posited to depend on the quality of political institutions, empirical research focuses mostly on how the nature and design of economic institutions affects developmental outcomes. We argue that infrastructural projects play a […]
REP Workshop with Jane Anna Gordon DateFebruary 19, 2015 Time12:00pm to 1:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter:Jane Anna Gordon, University of ConnecticutTitle: "Creolizing Political Theory”About the Speaker:Jane Gordon (Ph.D. 2005, Univ. of Pennsylvania) is Associate Professor of Political Science (Political Theory) as well as of African American Studies at UConn. She […]
International Relations Workshop with Susan Hyde DateFebruary 19, 2015 Time12:00pm Location 4276 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter:Susan Hyde, Yale UniversityTitle:"The Individual-Level Consequences of Democracy Promotion: A Field Experiment in Rural Cambodia"About the Speaker:Susan Hyde is Associate Professor of Political Science & International Affairs at Yale University. She studies international influences on domestic […]
Varieties of Corruption: The Organization of Rent-Sharing in India DateFebruary 21, 2014 Time6:00am to 7:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Studies of corruption shed little light on ways in which corrupt rents are distributed across actors—insights that would prove enlightening for efforts to reduce corruption. I posit that the type of state resource over which […]
Paola Marrati's Talk DateFebruary 23, 2018 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone (310)206-7558bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu A Voice's of One's Own. Cavell on Wittgenstein, Emerson, and Democracy Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:
REP Workshop - Anna Sampaio DateFebruary 19, 2016 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Professor Sampaio will be talking about her new book:(Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants: Race, Gender, and Immigration Politics in the Age of Security, 2015, Temple University Press) Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:
Benjamin Lessing's Talk DateFebruary 26, 2018 Time12:00pm to 1:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone (310)206-7558bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Paper Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:
Do Politicians Reward Their Supporters? Evidence from the Spatial Allocation of Constituency Development Fund Spending in Kenya DateFebruary 24, 2014 Time4:00am to 5:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact We draw on data on the spatial allocation of more than 50,000 constituency development fund projects in more than 200 electoral constituencies in Kenya to test leading […]
Life After Degree Series DateFebruary 26, 2014 Time10:00am to 12:00pm Location Career Center, 3rd Floor, Conference Room Contact Looking to explore ways to apply your degree to the professional world? Meet UCLA Political Science graduates and hear stories of how they leveraged their degree to launch a successful career in the law, entertainment, marketing, finance, […]
Choosing (All) Together DateFebruary 26, 2014 Time7:00am to 9:00am Location 4276 Bunche Hall Contact This article provides a game theoretic analysis of group decision making, investigating how agents’ communication behavior is affected by different voting systems. We show that in an ideal state where communication is noisy but agents can communicate without opportunity costs, agents […]
REP Workshop with Cristina Beltrán DateFebruary 26, 2015 Time12:00pm to 1:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter:Cristina Beltrán, New York UniversityTitle: "Undocumented and Acting Up: Queering Sovereignty in the Immigrant Rights Movement”Abstract: on the insights of queer theory to analyze the political practices of undocumented activists, particularly those who identify now or […]
Adam Berinsky - Rumors, Truths and Reality: A Study of Political Misinformation DateFebruary 25, 2016 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:
Lecture - The Prince, the Fat Man, and the Staff: Shakespeare’s Henry IV DateFebruary 25, 2016 Time7:30pm Location UCLA Law School Building, Room 1447 Contact Professor Allen’s lecture is free and open to all. No RSVP is required.Light refreshments will be available. Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:
PT Workshop - Farah Godrej, UC Riverside DateFebruary 24, 2017 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:
Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud DateFebruary 28, 2014 Time6:00am to 7:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Most election fraud is not conducted centrally by incumbents but rather locally by a machinery consisting of hundreds of political operatives. How does an incumbent ensure that his local agents deliver fraud when needed and […]
International Law/IR Workshop with Karen Alter DateFebruary 27, 2015 Time2:00pm to 3:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter:Karen Alter, Northwestern Universitywith co-author Laurence Helfer, Duke UniversityTitle: “Backlash Against International Courts in West, East, and Southern Africa: Causes and Consequences”Abstract:This paper discusses three efforts to restrict the jurisdiction of sub-regional courts by […]
Seminar - Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale DateFebruary 27, 2016 Time10:30am to 12:30pm Location Room to be announced Contact Enrollees in the seminar will be asked to read Shakespeare’s play and be ready to participate in the conversation. A pizza lunch will be delivered following the seminar.The seminar is free and open to all, but you must […]
