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Ray Rocco focuses on the relationships between globalization, democracy, citizenship and marginalized communities, with an emphasis on Latin American communities in the U.S. His recent publications have developed a framework for addressing a specific configuration of themes at the intersection of political theory (citizenship, democracy, civil society), cultural studies (identity, difference, border theory), post-colonial thought […]
Michael L. Ross is a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA. He has held visiting positions at Oxford University and the World Bank. Ross has published widely on the politics of climate change, natural resources, oil-exporting countries, and democracy. He is also the founding […]
Joel D. Aberbach is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director of the Center for American Politics and Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is the author of Keeping a Watchful Eye: The Politics of Congressional Oversight (Brookings, 1990), co-author, with Bert A. Rockman, of In the […]
Dick Anderson trained as a specialist on Soviet politics and foreign policy, to which he brought an expertise on military affairs. After the Soviet Union’s dismemberment in 1991 he shifted to investigating how elections replace self-appointment of those exercising ultimate political authority. Having noticed that shifts in political discourse preceded the transition from Soviet dictatorship […]
Kathleen Bawn studies political parties, focusing on roles they play in stabilizing coalitions and organizing politics. She has also studied electoral systems, as well as policymaking by the U.S. Congress, coalition governments in Germany and in parliamentary systems in general. Specific projects early in her career looked at the incentives generated by mixed PR/plurality electoral […]
Professor Chwe (pronounced like chess without the ss) studies how people coordinate their actions when each person wants to participate only if enough others do. He finds that, while coordination sometimes occurs through evolution or adaptation, more often it is the result of explicit communication. Professor Chwe’s recent papers, including Communication and Coordination in Social […]
James DeNardo joined the faculty at UCLA in 1987, after teaching in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. His most recent book, The Amateur Strategist (Cambridge University Press), explores the cognitive, ideological, and factional origins of national security strategy. The book challenges leading accounts of nuclear deterrence, public opinion formation, and game theory by […]
Joshua Foa Dienstag received his doctorate from Princeton University and taught at the University of Virginia for 13 years before moving to UCLA in 2005. His research focuses largely on European political theory between the 17th and 19th centuries but he also writes about cinema, the American Founding, and the methods of political theory. His […]
Dr. Lorrie Frasure is the inaugural Ralph J. Bunche Endowed Chair and a Professor of Political Science and African American Studies. She is the Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. Frasure also serves as the Faculty Director for the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. She joined […]
Barbara Geddes works on autocratic politics, regime transition, democratization, bureaucratic reform and corruption, political bargaining over institutional change, and research design. Her current research focuses on politics in dictatorships. Her most recent book is How Dictatorships Work: Power, Personalization, and Collapse (with Joseph Wright and Erica Frantz), 2018. The original data set on which the […]
