Fall Quarter begins September 29, 2014 DateSeptember 29, 2014 Time6:00am Location Contact Fall Quarter begins September 29, 2014 – Monday Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:
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The PLATO Society of Los Angeles Colloquium DateSeptember 28, 2017 Time12:45pm to 3:00pm Location Skirball Magnin Auditorium2701 N Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90049 Contact Contact Information Front OfficePhone (310)443-7676office@theplatosociety.org Richard Andersonis Professor of Political Science at UCLA,and a specialist on Russian politics and foreign policy.His books include: Discourse, Dictators and Democrats:Russia's Place in a Global […] |
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Methods Workshop with Adam Glynn DateOctober 3, 2014 Time12:00pm to 1:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Presenter:Adam Glynn, Emory UniversityTitle: "Front-door Difference-in-Differences Estimators"Abstract:In this paper, we develop front-door difference-in-differences estimators that utilize information from post-treatment variables in addition to information from pre-treatment covariates. Even when the front-door criterion does not hold, these estimators allow the identification […] Libby Barringer - PT Workshop DateSeptember 30, 2016 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here: Autonomy vs. Diversity: Kant and Hegel DateOctober 4, 2013 Time9:00am to 10:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact The notions of autonomy and diversity, both important in social and ethical theory, seem to have little to do with one another. To put it roughly, autonomy has to do with self-governance, with the ability to determine your […] |
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REP Workshop: Jennifer Merolla (UCR) DateOctober 3, 2016 Time3:00pm to 4:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here: Comparative Politics Workshop with Carlo Prato DateOctober 5, 2015 Time12:30pm Location Contact SAVE the Date, Next MONDAY, Oct. 5 -- Carlo Prato (of) Georgetown Univ. with “RATIONAL IGNORANCE AND ELECTORAL IMBALANCE, " the 1st Comparative Politics Workshop of 2015-16: 12:30 PM, Bunche 4357 (Conference Room)(from the abstract): study a formal model where "rationally ignorant" voters […] |
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Do Primary Electorates Polarize Congress? DateOctober 8, 2013 Time5:15am to 6:45am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact The 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 […] |
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Practice Job Talk: Sarah Brierley DateOctober 5, 2016 Time1:00pm to 2:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here: |
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Comparative Politics Workshop with Jens Hainmueller DateOctober 13, 2014 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Title: "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 […] Swarr Prize Lecture DateOctober 10, 2016 Time12:00pm to 1:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract: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 […] |
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BOLLENS-RIES-HOFFENBERG LECTURE DateOctober 10, 2017 Time6:00pm to 9:00pm Location California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)UCLA Campus Contact CollegeEvents@support.ucla.edu 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, […] |
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Juliet Hooker, UT Austin - PT Workshop DateOctober 14, 2016 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here: Political Theory Workshop with Megan Gallagher DateOctober 17, 2014 Time4:00pm Location Bunche 4357 Contact Title: "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 […] |
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Sarah Anzia, UC Berkeley - AP Workshop DateOctober 17, 2016 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract: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 […] Party Activists as Campaign Advertisers: Why the Ground Campaign Can't Move to the Middle DateOctober 21, 2013 Time5:00am to 6:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Recent 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 […] |
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2nd Annual Wolfenstein Memorial Lecture DateOctober 23, 2014 Time4:30pm Location Faculty CenterCalifornia RoomUCLA CampusParking available for $12 in Structure 2 Contact Contact Information Kelli A O'LearyPhone 310-825-4038koleary@support.ucla.edu 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 […] |
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Political Theory Workshop DateOctober 23, 2015 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location Bunche Hall 4357 (Conference Room) Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here: Panel Discussion: Jobs At Teaching-Oriented Institutions DateOctober 21, 2016 Time3:00pm to 5:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here: American Politics Workshop with Larry Bartels DateOctober 24, 2014 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Presenter: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 […] |
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Priming Predispositions and Changing Policy Positions: An Account of When Mass Opinion is Primed or Changed DateOctober 28, 2013 Time5:00am to 6:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Prior 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 […] Nadia E. Brown: "It's More than Hair...That's Why You Should Care" DateOctober 24, 2016 Time3:00pm to 4:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract: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 […] Comparative Politics Workshop with Thad Dunning DateOctober 27, 2014 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Presenter: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 […] |
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Julia Lee - Practice Job Talk DateOctober 27, 2015 Time12:30pm to 1:45pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here: |
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Pieces of the Craft DateOctober 28, 2015 Time12:00pm Location 4276 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here: |
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Dimitris Vardoulakis DateOctober 26, 2017 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone 3102067558bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here: |
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Understanding Ethnic Cooperation: Evidence from Experiments in Kenya and Tanzania DateNovember 1, 2013 Time7:00am to 8:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact We 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 […] REP Reading Group DateOctober 30, 2015 Time4:00pm Location 4280 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here: Banu Bargu, New School for Social Research DateOctober 28, 2016 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Link to full paper can be found hereTo recieve an email copy of the paper, contact Michelle Rose: mklrose@ucla.edu Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here: |
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