UCI Department of Political Science

Please join our faculty and students for a three-day virtual conference on Hobbes’ perennially controversial work, Leviathan!

December 9-11, 2021

To register:

Leviathan Unbound: Hobbes Across the Disciplines

New students: mark your calendars! The Political Science Department will be hosting an undergraduate orientation on Monday, September 20th from 3:00-3:50PM on Zoom. Professors and counselors will be live to discuss major/minor requirements and answer your questions. Current students are welcome to join. See you then!

Register here: https://bit.ly/PolSciOrientation2021

More info on orientations: https://www.dac.socsci.uci.edu/dept_orientations.php

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Political Science Orientation. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Welcome to the School of Social Sciences at UC Irvine! Join our major orientations to learn about your department of Political Science. This comprehensive orientation includes a presentation from your department’s undergraduate director, introducing you to your major’s coursework, research, and ...

Fascinating piece by Associate Professor Davin Phoenix on how the Capitol siege illustrates how White Americans can express anger that Black Americans cannot. Published today in WaPo's The Monkey Cage. Read here:

Analysis | The Capitol siege shows how White Americans can express anger that Black Americans cannot Angry whites are far more likely to take political action.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: American Democracy and the Crisis at the Capitol. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Please join us for a pop-up panel with UCI Political Science and Sociology faculty on the crisis at the Capitol that unfolded yesterday. The panel will be held from noon to no later than 1:20PM, with panelists offering 10-15 minutes of reflections and then taking questions from the audience.

Check out UCI Prof Erin Lockwood's fascinating new article on Anti-Semitism, Financial Power, and Conspiracy Theories.

The Antisemitic Backlash to Financial Power: Conspiracy Theory as a Response to Financial Complexity and Crisis (2020). The Antisemitic Backlash to Financial Power: Conspiracy Theory as a Response to Financial Complexity and Crisis. New Political Economy. Ahead of Print.

Congrats to PolSci grad student Ugurcan Evci and Associate Professor Marek Kaminski for their recent publication on electoral engineering in the Turkish parliamentary elections in 2018!

Shot in the foot: unintended political consequences of electoral engineering in the Turkish parliamentary elections in 2018 (2020). Shot in the foot: unintended political consequences of electoral engineering in the Turkish parliamentary elections in 2018. Turkish Studies. Ahead of Print.

UCI Political Science Affiliate faculty and law professor, Rick Hasen, sat down with CNN's Chris Cuomo last night to discuss the UCI School of Law UC Irvine School of Social Sciences

Check out UCI Professor Danielle Thomsen's new article in the ARSR on women's representation and the pipeline to power.

Women’s Representation and the Gendered Pipeline to Power | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core Women’s Representation and the Gendered Pipeline to Power - Volume 114 Issue 4

Please join us for a virtual lunch talk next week on Issues in the 2020 Election (with a focus on Social Movements, Political Misinformation and the Court)!

We have a great panel lined up for you to ask all your election-related questions.

To join, please be sure to register ASAP: http://socs.ci/pre-election2020

Congratulations to (UCI Political Science Professor Davin Phoenix) whose book, The Anger Gap: How Race Shapes Emotion in Politics, is the winner of APSA's 2020 Ralph J. Bunche Award!

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/anger-gap/967D469A566F389E0C69099BA5486069

Will Hong Kongers decamp for Taiwan? New research by UCI PhD students.

Hong Kongers Say Taiwan Is Their First Choice as Exile Looms Beijing’s new security law may cause mass emigration in Hong Kong.

UCI’s Michael Tesler on how the Floyd protests have changed public opinion on race and policing:

Analysis | The Floyd protests have changed public opinion about race and policing. Here’s the data. Until recently, most whites thought that blacks no longer face much discrimination in the United States. That's changed.