UCI Department of Political Science

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The University of California, Irvine (UCI) ranks among the top research universities in the nation and provides an active university environment and a continued commitment to excellence and achievement. The Department of Political Science has attained a reputation for producing the very best innovative and interdisciplinary scholarship. Faculty are engaged in the study of such key questions as the

politics of advanced and democratizing societies, international cooperation and peace, the politics of racial and ethnic minority groups, and the origins of altruism and morality and their impact on world politics. The department also has a very innovative Ph.D. program with strong interdisciplinary emphases. Graduate students can pursue concentrations in democracy studies, international relations, political economy/public choice, political psychology, and race and minority politics. program in Political Science offers big payoffs to our graduate students due to the extended range of inquiry an interdisciplinary program affords.

Please join our faculty and students for a three-day virtual conference on Hobbes’ perennially controversial work, Levia...
12/04/2021

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

December 9-11, 2021

To register:

New students: mark your calendars! The Political Science Department will be hosting an undergraduate orientation on Mond...
08/25/2021

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 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 expr...
01/15/2021

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:

Angry whites are far more likely to take political action.

01/08/2021

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.
11/25/2020

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

(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 elec...
11/20/2020

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!

(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 dis...
11/07/2020

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.
10/16/2020

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 - 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, Poli...
10/14/2020

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

Will Hong Kongers decamp for Taiwan? New research by UCI PhD students.
07/10/2020

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

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:
06/25/2020

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

Until recently, most whites thought that blacks no longer face much discrimination in the United States. That's changed.

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