Jessica Trounstine will give a talk entitled, "In it Together: The Segregation of Public Goods," in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles on January 26, 2015.
Graduate Student Tessa Provins presented a paper, "A Theory of Minority Party Influence in the US Congress" (with Jeffery Jenkins and Nathan Monroe), at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association in New Orleans, LA.
Courtenay Conrad's blog post (with Justin Conrad, Jim Piazza, and Jim Walsh), "When do countries respond to terrorism with torture?", was featured on the Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog.
Brad LeVeck's paper, "The role of self-interest in elite bargaining" (with Alex Hughes, James Fowler, Emilie Hafner-Burton, and David Victor), was accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
Courtenay Conrad's research (with Will Moore) was referenced in the Washington Post article, "Most Countries are Against Torture, but Most have been Accused of It."
Aila Matanock, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, will give a talk entitled, "International Insurance: Explaining Provisions for Participatory Post-Conflict Elections in Peace Agreement Design," as part of the Understanding Politics Speaker...
Haifeng Huang's paper, "A War of (Mis)Information: The Political Effects of Rumors and Rumor Rebuttals in an Authoritarian Country," was cited in the Thai newspaper, Matichon.
