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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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:
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:
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 […]
International Relations Workshop with Benjamin Graham DateNovember 3, 2014 Time12:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Presenter: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 […]
Charles Taylor Lectures DateNovember 1, 2016 Time5:00pm to 6:30pm Location Charles E. Young Research Library, Conference Room 11360 Contact Discussant: Anthony Pagden (UCLA Political Science)In two lectures at UCLA, Charles Taylor will discuss his most recent book, The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity (Harvard University Press, 2016), as well as his ongoing inquiries into the […]
Recruitment Job Talk with Nicholas Valentino DateNovember 6, 2014 Time12:00pm to 1:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Presenter:Nicholas Valentino, University of MichiganTitle: "News Mediated Threat, Group Empathy, and Racial Gaps in Public Opinion”Abstract:To explain group differences in reactions to mass mediated political threats, we develop Group Empathy Theory. The theory posits empathy felt by members of […]
E. Victor Wolfenstein Memorial Lecture DateNovember 4, 2016 Time4:00pm to 7:00pm Location California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) UCLA Campus Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone (310) 206-7558bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Jeffrey B. Lewis Chair & Professor UCLA Department of Political Scienceinvites you to attend the E. VICTOR WOLFENSTEIN MEMORIAL LECTURE The Limits of Black Liberalism &the 2016 Presidential Election presented byDr. […]
Political Theory Workshop: Panel Discussion DateNovember 7, 2014 Time4:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Presenter:Panel with: Elisabeth Anker (George Washington University) and Cristina Beltrán (New York University)Title: "Willful Subjects”Overview:The panelists take as their starting point the distributed and material quality of human agency to explore the racialized and gendered dynamics of domination and opportunity, and ask how […]
Fear and Loathing Across Party Lines: New Evidence on Group Polarization DateNovember 12, 2013 Time4:15am to 5:45am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact When defined in terms of social identity and affect toward in- and out-groups, the polarization of the American electorate has clearly increased. We document the scope and consequences of affective polarization using implicit, […]
E. VICTOR WOLFENSTEIN MEMORIAL LECTURE DateNovember 7, 2017 Time6:00pm to 9:00pm Location Charles E. Young Grand SalonKerckhoff HallUCLA Campus Contact CollegeEvents@support.ucla.edu Barbara GeddesProfessor and Chair UCLA Department of Political Scienceinvites you to attend theE. VICTOR WOLFENSTEIN MEMORIAL LECTUREWhite State, Black Market: The Political Economy of Clarence Thomaspresented byDr. Corey Robin Associate Professor of Political Science […]
UCLA CAPPP Midterm Elections Post-Mortem DateNovember 12, 2014 Time12:00pm to 1:30pm Location 2125 Rolfe Hall Contact info@cappp.ucla.edu Presenters:Joel Aberbach (moderator), Joe Doherty, John Petrocik, Daron Shaw, Barbara SinclairTitle: "Midterm Elections Post Mortem" sponsored by the UCLA Center for American Politics & Public Policy (CAPPP)Click here to enlarge the flyer, Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register […]
Macro Shifts in Civil War: Government Expansion, Rebel Deployment, and Civilian Displacement in the Vietnam War DateNovember 15, 2013 Time7:00am to 8:30am Location 11377 Bunche Hall Contact How a civil war unfolds depends on the key questions of whether rebels can find permanent sanctuary, where the government can maintain authority, and where civilians choose to […]
International Law/IR Workshop with Christopher Whytock DateNovember 14, 2014 Time2:00pm to 3:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Presenter:Christopher A. Whytock (UC Irvine, School of Law)Title: "From International Law and International Relations to Law and World Politics"Abstract:International relations (IR) scholars now widely agree that law matters in world politics. But so far they have focused almost exclusively […]
American Politics Workshop with John Bullock DateNovember 17, 2014 Time3:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Presenter:John Bullock, Yale UniversityTitle: "Education and Attitudes toward Redistribution in the United States."Abstract:Americans increasingly favor education as a solution to the problem of income inequality. But little attention has been paid to the effects of education on attitudes toward inequality and […]
REP Workshop - Tianna Paschel, UC Berkeley DateNovember 14, 2016 Time3:00pm to 4:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract:After decades of denying racism and underplaying cultural diversity, Latin American states began adopting transformative ethno-racial legislation in the late 1980s. In addition to symbolic recognition of indigenous peoples and black populations, governments in the region created a more pluralistic model of […]
CMED Seminar Honoring Prof. Emeritus Leonard DateNovember 19, 2014 Time1:30pm to 4:00pm Location Sequoia Room, UCLA Faculty Center Contact Presenter:Steven Spiegel, Chris Erickson, Lisa Blaydes, Lawrence Rubin, Abdulkader Sinno, Heidi Lane, Robert Bianchi, Amanda Rizkallah, Jerrold Green, Richard Anderson, John Zaller, Yvette Hovsepian- Bearce, Jeff Lewis, Leonard BinderTitle: "Five Decades of Middle East Studies”Honoring Professor Leonard […]
Felony Status, Participation, and Political Reintegration: Results from a field experiment DateNovember 21, 2013 Time4:00am to 5:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact How does American’s high rate of incarceration shape political participation? Few studies have examined the direct effects of incarceration on patterns of political engagement. Answering this question is particularly relevant for the 93% […]
Recruitment Job Talk with Brandon Stewart DateNovember 20, 2014 Time12:00pm to 1:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Presenter:Brandon Stewart, Harvard University*** Joint Recruitment Search with UCLA Department of Statistics ***Title: "Modeling Social Science Heterogeneity with Latent Factor Regressions"Abstract:In this work, I present a general framework for regression in the presence of complex dependence structures between units […]
Electoral Geography, Strategic Mobilization, and Implications for Voter Turnout DateNovember 22, 2013 Time6:00am to 7:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact When will parties mobilize the electoral support of low-income voters? This discussion presents evidence that rates of turnout among low-income citizens reflect legislators' and parties' electoral incentives to be responsive to the poor, and that […]
Recruitment Job Talk with Marko Klasnja DateNovember 21, 2014 Time12:00pm to 1:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Presenter:Marko Klasnja, New York UniversityTitle: "Corruption and the Incumbency Disadvantage: Theory and Evidence"Abstract:Incumbents in many developing democracies face significant disadvantages when seeking reelection, in stark contrast to the well-known incumbency advantage that exists in the U.S. and other mature […]
AP Workshop - Rocio Titiunik DateNovember 23, 2015 Time3:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact The widespread availability of voter files has changed the study of participation in American politics. However, many studies calculate voter turnout among registrants, which may lead to invalid causal inferences if registration rates differ between treatment and control groups. We introduce […]
AP Workshop - Ariel White, MIT DateNovember 21, 2016 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract:This paper presents new causal estimates of incarceration's effect on voting, using administrative data on criminal sentencing and voter turnout. I use the random case assignment process of a major county court system as a source of exogenous […]
