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 […]

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:

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 […]

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, […]

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:

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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:

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 […]

Do Legislator Positions Affect Constituent Voting Decisions in U.S. House Elections? DateMarch 3, 2014 Time4:00am to 5:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact The theory of spatial voting has dominated recent scholarship on voting and elections. The spatial voting theory’s most important implication is that candidates’ ideological positions should influence voters’ decisions at the ballot box. […]

CP Workshop - Dominik Hangartner, London School of Economics DateFebruary 27, 2017 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract:Does exposure to the refugee crisis fuel anti-immigrant sentiment among natives and increase voting for extreme-right parties? Despite heated debates about the political repercussions of the refugee crisis in Europe, there exists very little, and […]

Comparative Politics Workshop with Edmund Malesky DateMarch 2, 2015 Time12:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter:Edmund Malesky,  Duke UniversityTitle: “Participation in Legal Drafting and Compliance with Business Regulation: Evidence from Vietnam” About the Speaker:Edmund Malesky is Associate Professor of political economy, and a specialist on Southeast Asia -- particularly Vietnam. Currently, […]

PT Workshop - Clarissa Hayward DateMarch 1, 2016 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:

Lecture - Attention as a Cultural Problem DateMarch 3, 2016 Time7:30pm Location UCLA Law School Building, Room 1447 Contact Matthew Crawford’s lecture is free and open to all.  No RSVP is required.Light refreshments will be available. Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:

Irony and Its Politics in Civil Rights Historiography DateMarch 7, 2014 Time8:00am to 9:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact This paper is a draft section of my larger project, which is an attempt to excavate and reconstruct the philosophical foundations of the recent historiographical debate over how to periodize and understand the civil rights movement. […]

Energy, War, and Peace DateMarch 7, 2014 Time7:00am to 8:30am Location 11377 Bunche Hall Contact Is the Long Peace following 1945 a general decline of international war, and if so, what caused it? This paper explores how the shift to fossil fuel consumption following the Industrial Revolution fundamentally changed the political economy of war. I […]

Seminar - Francois Furet on the Revolutionary Passion DateMarch 5, 2016 Time10:30am to 12:30pm Location Haines Hall, Room 110 Contact Matthew Crawford is the author of the heavily praised books Shop Class as Soulcraftand The World Beyond Your Head.  He is a senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the University of Virginia and he fabricates […]

CP Workshop - Dorothy Kronick, University of Pennsylvania DateMarch 6, 2017 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall  Contact Abstract:What is the political logic of dual exchange rates? Governments often invoke a populist justification, arguing that dual exchange rates protect the prices of imported consumer goods. But critics charge that dual exchange rates do little […]

American Politics Workshop with Justin Grimmer DateMarch 9, 2015 Time3:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter:Justin Grimmer, Stanford UniversityTitle: "The Impression of Influence"About the Speaker:Justin Grimmer (Ph.D. 2010, Harvard) is Associate Professor of Political Science at Stanford. His research uses new statistical methods to examine how representation occurs in American politics. His […]

REP Workshop - Traci Burch, Northwestern University DateMarch 6, 2017 Time3:00pm to 4:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall  Contact Abstract:This article explores the effects of policing (measured by police- and citizen-initiated stops of pedestrians and cars) on voter turnout for the 2012 general election in St. Louis, Missouri.  This is the first paper of its kind […]

U HEARD IT HERE DateMarch 13, 2018 Time6:30pm to 9:00pm Location Fowler Museum at UCLA, Lenart Auditorium Self-pay parking available in Structure 4 Contact Barbara Geddes Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Political Science   invites you to attend  The Rise and Fall of Trump’s PopulismJoshua Green Author of Devil’s Bargain and senior national correspondent for Bloomberg Businessweek […]

Lecture - Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis DateMarch 10, 2016 Time7:30pm Location UCLA Law School Building, Room 1447 Contact Professor Putnam’s lecture is free and open to all.  No RSVP is required.Light refreshments will be available. Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:

REP Workshop - Melissa Michelson, Menlo College DateMarch 13, 2017 Time3:00pm to 4:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall  Contact The speaker, Melissa Michelson will be presenting from her new book. Click here for a preview of the book. It describes three of the 17 experiments in the book, focusing on football fan identity. Event Details: Parking | Directions […]

CP Workshop - Cyrus Samii, New York University DateMarch 13, 2017 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract:We use a cluster-randomized field experiment to study two strategies to promote free democratic expression among rural voters in Liberia’s 2011 general election. The context is one of a fragile state in which destructive legacies of […]

A Theory of Vagueness Relevant to Prestige and Moral Taboos DateMarch 19, 2014 Time8:00am to 10:00am Location 4276 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:

Social Sciences Faculty Search Job Talk - Aram Hur, New York University DateMarch 16, 2017 Time2:00pm to 4:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Citizen Duty and the Ethical Power of Communities: Evidence from East Asia Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:

Winter Quarter ends, March 20, 2015 – Friday DateMarch 20, 2015 Time6:00am Location Contact Winter Quarter ends, March 20, 2015 – Friday Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:

Spring Quarter begins, March 25, 2015 – Wednesday DateMarch 25, 2015 Time6:00am Location Contact Spring Quarter begins, March 25, 2015 – Wednesday Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here: