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Notice of Application for Alien Employment Certification

The attached PDF will be posted on our website for 32 as a notification of application for alien employmnet certification.

2015 Undergraduate Honors Colloquium and Awards Reception

Honors Colloquium with presentations by Honors Students and Awards Ceremony for Department and University Award Winners.

Job Opportunity - Visiting Scholar in Quantitative Methods

The University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Political Science seeks a visiting scholar to teach a graduate course on quantitative methods for the Fall, 2015 term.  The course will cover regression criticism, logit and probit models for binary and ordered dependent variables, multinomial and conditional logit models, and event count models.

Democracy on the Lam: Frontier Vigilantes and Democratic Theory

Event Start: May 18, 2015 11:00 PM

Event End: May 18, 2015 11:00 PM

Event Location: The Lane Room (Ellison 3824)

Recently Published Graduate Student - Nicole Filler

Graduate Student Nicole Filler recently published an article in Politics & Gender that she co-authored with Professor M. Kent Jennings. The article is titled "Familial Origins of Gender Role Attitudes" and examines the role that family has in shaping gender role attitudes involving politics. To read Filler and Jennings article, see attached PDF.

Abstract:

Multi- Versus Mixed- Method Research and the Logic of Causal Inference

Nicholas Weller and Jeb Barnes
Political Science, University of Southern California

Currency Misalignments and Industry Demands for Trade Protection

Speaker: J. Lawrence Broz, Professor of Political Science, University of California San Diego

UCSB MUN Wins Outstanding Delegation for Second Year in a Row

The UCSB Model United Nations (MUN) team won an "Outstanding Delegation" award for the second year in a row at the National Model United Nations conference held in New York in early April. The team of 22 members represented Kuwait at this year's conference. The award of Outstanding Delegation is only given to the top ten percent of participating schools. Participants credited a quarter of hard work and lots of individual preparation time, as well as the guidance of advisor Galen Stocking (PhD Candidate in Political Science) for their success.