• Important department announcement

    In an effort to reduce the possibility of illness caused by the coronavirus, the Department of Political Science will be reducing staff’s physical presence in the office for the next 2 weeks. Staff will continue to be available via remote access, and can be reached via email, or can return phone messages left on their work numbers, or can schedule Zoom meetings, as necessary.

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  • Professor Chris Tausanovitch and Professor Lynn Vavreck received funding from the Democracy Fund for their project NATIONSCAPE

    Nationscape is a multi-million dollar partnership between Chris Tausanovitch and Lynn Vavreck at UCLA, the Democracy Fund, LUCID, and other grantors. Nationscape interviews 6,250 people every week. It started in July of 2019 and will finish in January of 2021. The project will complete 500,000 interviews. The project is staffed by UCLA graduate students Aaron Rudkin, Alex Hayes, and Tyler Reny who run the entire project out of the Hoffenberg Fellows office on the fourth floor of Bunche Hall.

    What Is Voters’ Highest Priority? There’s a Way to Find OutWhat Is Voters’ Highest Priority? There’s a Way to Find Out

  • Political Science Professor Kathy Bawn received the 2019 campus-wide Distinguished Teaching Award

    Political Science Professor Kathy Bawn received the 2019 campus-wide Distinguished Teaching Award along with the Eby Award for the Art of Teaching from the Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching.

  • Professors Lorrie Frasure-Yokley and Matt Barreto received nearly $1 million from the NSF for the 2020 Collaborative Multiracial Post-election Survey (CMPS)

    A UCLA-led group of racial and ethnic politics researchers from across the nation are already gearing up to make sense of the 2020 presidential election.

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  • Tackling the ‘resource curse’

    UCLA researchers launch project to design policies in countries where corruption and conflict undercut natural abundance

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  • UCLA team leading the way in the study of race and ethnicity politics

    Researchers and scholars from across the country meet to prepare for the 2020 elections

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  • Political Networks and Conflict

    Professor Arthur Stein, Professor Robert Trager, and their research team have received a UC Multicampus-National Lab Collaborative Research and Training Award exceeding $3 million for their research project, “Political Conflict and Stability in Dynamic Networks.”

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Political Science Department Summer Session 2020

Dear students, The Political Science Department is offering…
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COVID-19 Announcement

In an effort to reduce the possibility of illness caused by the…
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Wolfenstein Memorial Lecture (Recorded Video)

E. Victor Wolfenstein Memorial Lecture Critical Political…
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Professor Lynn Vavreck's book examining the 2016 election honored by American Political Science Association

Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle…
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Message from the Chair

Welcome to UCLA Political Science

Politics happens between nations, within nations, and within the minds of people within nations. It affects almost every aspect of our lives, from the warming of our environment, to the cost of education and health care, to our attitudes toward each other. In the discipline of Political Science, we investigate the nature, causes and consequences of politics.

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Publications

Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit

American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism

World Politics in a New Era (Sixth Edition)

How Dictatorships Work

Discourse, Dictators and Democrats: Russia’s Place in a Global Process

Crisis of Conservatism? The Republican Party, the Conservative Movement, and American Politics after Bush

Diplomacy: Communication and the Origins of International Order

Transforming Citizenship: Democracy, Membership, and Belonging in Latino Communities

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