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December 18, 2013
A news article on the UC Merced homepage highlights the publication success of UC Merced's political science faculty. The report on which this article is based is available here.
December 4, 2013
Alex Theodoridis will give a talk entitled, "Disputed Ownership: Separating Partisan Stereotypes and Identity by Reconceptualizing Trait Ownership," as part of the Understanding Politics Speaker Series on December 5, 2013.
November 12, 2013
Tom Hansford and Steve Nicholson's paper, "Partisans in Robes: Party Cues and Public Acceptance of Supreme Court Decisions," was accepted for publication in the American Journal of Political Science.
November 7, 2013
 Tom Hansford will serve as a guest speaker for a meeting of the Merced County Bar Association, presenting a lecture entitled, "Source Cues and Acceptance of Supreme Court Decisions."
October 29, 2013
Courtenay Conrad's brief, "Why Democracy Does Not Always Improve Human Rights," was posted on the Scholars Strategy Network.
October 15, 2013
Courtenay Conrad's paper, "Torture Allegations as Events Data: Introducing the Ill-Treatment and Torture (ITT) Specific Allegation Data" (with Jillienne Haglund and Will H. Moore), was accepted for publication in the Journal of Peace Research.
September 30, 2013
Ryan Enos, Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University, will give a talk entitled, "Identifying the Minimal Conditions for Socio-Political Conflict," as part of the Understanding Politics Speaker Series on October 1, 2013.
September 4, 2013
Incoming Graduate Student Chelsea Coe presented a paper, "ARGUMENT IS WAR in the Context of Current Politics" (with Bodo Winter and Teenie Matlock), at the Cognition and Language Workshop in Santa Barbara last weekend.
August 6, 2013
 Emily Ritter's paper, "Emigrants and the Onset of Civil War" (with Gina Lei Miller), was accepted for publication in the Journal of Peace Research.
July 15, 2013
 Incoming Graduate Student Chelsea Coe presented a paper, "ARGUMENT IS WAR Metaphors in Current Politics" (with Bodo Winter), at the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference in Edmonton, Canada on June 25th.

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