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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181203T000000
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SUMMARY:Comparative Politics Job Talk with Emily Sellars
DESCRIPTION:Comparative Politics Job Talk with Emily Sellars \nDateDecember 1\, 2014 \nTime12:00pm to 1:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Emily Sellars\, University of Wisconsin–MadisonTitle: “Does Emigration Inhibit Political Reform? Evidence from the Mexican Agrarian Movement\, 1916–1945″Abstract:Does emigration encourage or inhibit political reform? I investigate this question using data from a critical period in Mexican history. Following the Revolution in 1910\, the Mexican government implemented a major redistributive land reform program. The program began during a period of high emigration from Mexico\, but migration patterns were halted and reversed following the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Using a research design similar to a difference-in-differences approach\, I demonstrate that there was a significant acceleration in land redistribution in high- relative to low-emigration states after the shock to emigration opportunities. Drawing on an original formal model and on archival research on the agrarian movement\, I trace this outcome to the role of emigration in reducing political pressure on the government during the 1920s and to the importance of repatriates in the agrarian movement after 1930. These findings have important implications for understanding the political impacts of emigration and their development consequences. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/comparative-politics-job-talk-with-emily-sellars/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181205T000000
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SUMMARY:Pieces of the Craft
DESCRIPTION:Pieces of the Craft  \nDateDecember 2\, 2015 \nTime12:00pm \nLocation\n4276 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/pieces-of-the-craft-6/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181206T000000
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SUMMARY:Methods Workshop with Branislav Slantchev
DESCRIPTION:Methods Workshop with Branislav Slantchev \nDateDecember 4\, 2014 \nTime2:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Branislav Slantchev\, UC San DiegoTitle: “Rich Subjects\, Poor Kings: Rebellion Relief and the Ratchet Effect in Taxation”Abstract:Rulers face serious difficulties in their efforts to extract wealth from society through taxation. Historically\, taxation was often not very high and attempts to increase it frequently caused revolts. Over time\, however\, taxation has increased dramatically while violent resistance has virtually disappeared. We present a model that shows how these patterns can be understood as arising from the Crown’s desire to maximize its income from taxation in a context where it is institutionally unconstrained but does not have very good information about the wealth of the subjects it is trying to tax. In this setting\, high tax demands can push poor subjects into violent resistance\, which might provide the Crown with evidence that it needs to lower the tax to acceptable levels (provide tax relief). This possibility\, however\, provides an incentive to the rich subject to join the revolt to take advantage of tax relief and avoid an increase of taxation that willingness to accept might entail in the future (ratchet effect). This interaction is resolved in the Crown settling for taxation that\, depending on its information about the subjects’ wealth\, can be low but peaceful\, moderate but provoking occasional revolts by the poor\, and high but risking that even the rich would join a revolt. As the Crown’s ability to better assess the wealth of its subjects grows\, taxation will increase while violent resistance will decrease even in the absence of an increase in the Crown’s coercive capabilities or its public goods provision. The growth of the state can be understood as a direct consequence of administrative improvements rather than centralization of power\, monopolization of violence\, or provision of public goods.Paper: Click here to download. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/methods-workshop-with-branislav-slantchev/
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SUMMARY:GSC Meeting
DESCRIPTION:GSC Meeting  \nDateDecember 3\, 2015 \nTime3:30pm \nLocation\n4280 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/gsc-meeting-2/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181207T000000
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SUMMARY:Is War Disappearing?
DESCRIPTION:Is War Disappearing?  \nDateDecember 6\, 2013 \nTime7:00am to 8:30am \nLocation\n11377 Bunche Hall \nContact \nThere is a large and growing belief\, based on a handful of recent scholarly works\, that the propensity of states to use force against one another is on the decline. I take issue with two lines of argument that support this conclusion. The first is the claim that\, whereas the two World Wars were statistical anomalies\, the “Long Peace” that followed is a meaningful trend: I show that both are very plausibly the result of the same stochastic process. The second is the claim that there is less war now than there was in the recent past: I examine what is meant by war\, control for two confounding influences that resulted from the proliferation of states in the 20th century\, and show that\, taking those considerations into account\, no such trend is evident. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/is-war-disappearing/
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SUMMARY:Dramatizing Democracy: Crisis\, Civic Education\, and the Common Good
DESCRIPTION:Dramatizing Democracy: Crisis\, Civic Education\, and the Common Good \nDateDecember 6\, 2013 \nTime8:00am to 9:30am \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nAfter 9/11\, hope arose that democracy in America would be revitalized. Crisis\, it was said\, “represents an opportunity” for social and political reformation\, and the American people will “come together and rise to the occasion.” I examine the philosophical underpinnings of this familiar rhetoric and the belief that crisis may be good for democracy\, a belief which runs against traditional views that popular governments cannot cope with crises. What is revealed about our understanding of democracy when we dramatize the state of insecurity as its born-again moment? Crisis-based democracy is compelling because it reframes republican civic virtue\, and radical collective action\, in ways compatible with modern society and liberal democracy. This formulation\, I argue\, signifies a transformation of the participatory ideal\, from common people arguing together to the heroic transcendence of partisanship. To analyze the crisis/democracy linkage I consider the surprisingly similar democratic theories of Bruce Ackerman and Sheldon Wolin. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/dramatizing-democracy-crisis-civic-education-and-the-common-good/
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SUMMARY:Stacey Greene - Practice Job Talk
DESCRIPTION:Stacey Greene – Practice Job Talk  \nDateDecember 4\, 2015 \nTime1:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/stacey-greene-practice-job-talk/
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SUMMARY:IR Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:IR Reading Group  \nDateDecember 4\, 2015 \nTime3:00pm \nLocation\n4276 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/ir-reading-group-3/
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SUMMARY:REP Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:REP Reading Group  \nDateDecember 4\, 2015 \nTime4:00pm \nLocation\n4280 Bunche Hall \nContact \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/rep-reading-group-5/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181210T000000
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SUMMARY:Amanda Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Amanda Robinson \nDateDecember 4\, 2017 \nTime12:15pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone 3102067558bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/amanda-robinson/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181213T000000
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SUMMARY:Recruitment Job Talk with Erin Hartman
DESCRIPTION:Recruitment Job Talk with Erin Hartman \nDateDecember 11\, 2014 \nTime12:00pm to 1:30pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Erin Hartman\, UC BerkeleyTitle: “Call and Non-response: A Design Based Solution for Unit Non-response”Abstract:With the decrease in response rates to surveys\, the potential for differential non-response to bias our estimates of public opinion is growing.  Changing response rates over the course of an election may be able to explain much of the variance observed in stated vote intention during the cycle. I decompose the potential bias into features that can be addressed in the design and post hoc adjustment stage\, and unobservable behavioral bias that must be assumed away. I then consider a new sampling method\, response rate sampling\, that leverages past data on responsiveness to surveys to alleviate bias due to observable imbalance resulting from unit non-response.  This method was used for the internal analytics polling operation during President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.  I will present findings on the dynamics of response rates over the 2012 election cycle\, and how response rate sampling impacts volatility in our measurements and our estimates of public opinion and campaign effects. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/recruitment-job-talk-with-erin-hartman/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181214T000000
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SUMMARY:Political Theory Workshop with Ella Myers
DESCRIPTION:Political Theory Workshop with Ella Myers \nDateDecember 12\, 2014 \nTime4:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPresenter:Ella Myers\, University of UtahRespondent:Kye Barker\, UCLATitle: “Invisible Men: Racial Indifference in Theories of Neoliberalism”About the presenter:Ella Myers (Ph.D. 2006\, Northwestern) is assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Utah with a joint appointment in Gender Studies.  Her research is primarily in the area of democratic theory. She is especially engaged with questions regarding citizen participation\, the distribution of political power\, and practices of collective resistance.  Myers’ current research agenda focuses on contemporary economic conditions in the United States and she is working on a book manuscript entitled Radical Capitalism\, which argues that today’s economic regime is both continuous and discontinuous with previous forms of capitalist society.Abstract:Scholarly work on neoliberalism often fails to address the specific workings of racial caste in the U.S.  Too often such work presents a grand narrative of capitalist exploitation in the 21st century which overlooks racial domination or implies that it is simply a sub-category of class domination. Drawing on work by Michelle Alexander and Loic Wacquant\, this paper argues that racial caste functions today to position black men in the U.S. not merely as exploitable\, but expendable. The problem of black men’s disposability – expressed most graphically in the social acceptance of the state-sanctioned use of discriminatory force\, imprisonment\, and disenfranchisement – points to “the incompleteness of abolition.” The paper argues that understanding the effects of racial caste on black men today requires investigating how capitalism and white supremacy have been linked historically not only by relations of boss/worker but also by relations of owner/owned.Paper:Click here to download. \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/political-theory-workshop-with-ella-myers/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181214T000000
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CREATED:20180830T194943Z
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UID:2542-1544745600-1544745600@polisci.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Demetra Kasimis
DESCRIPTION:Demetra Kasimis  \nDateDecember 8\, 2017 \nTime4:00pm to 6:00pm \nLocation\n4357 Bunche Hall \nContact\nContact Information\nBelinda SunnuPhone 3102067558bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu \nPaper \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/demetra-kasimis/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181221T000000
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SUMMARY:Fall Quarter ends\, December 19\, 2014 – Friday
DESCRIPTION:Fall Quarter ends\, December 19\, 2014 – Friday \nDateDecember 19\, 2014 \nTime6:00am \nLocation \nContact \nFall Quarter ends\, December 19\, 2014 – Friday \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/fall-quarter-ends-december-19-2014-friday/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181226T000000
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CREATED:20180830T194833Z
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SUMMARY:Winter campus closure begins\, December 24\, 2014 – Wednesday
DESCRIPTION:Winter campus closure begins\, December 24\, 2014 – Wednesday \nDateDecember 24\, 2014 \nTime6:00am \nLocation \nContact \nWinter campus closure begins\, December 24\, 2014 – Wednesday \nEvent Details:  \nParking | Directions \nPlease register here:
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/winter-campus-closure-begins-december-24-2014-wednesday/
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