We are pleased to welcome Professor Alex Coppock from Yale University to give a talk on his important new book on "How Information Changes Minds about Politics."

Congratulations to Paige Pellaton and Rio Park for winning our annual Best Prospectus and Best QE Exam awards.  These are great examples of top students doing first-rate work.  Congratulations!

Professor Lauren Young has received a UCD Faculty Development Award in recognition of her extraordinary service to the department, university, and profession.  Congratulations!

Professors Kinne and Maoz have an article on "How Structural Imbalance in Domestic Political Networks Affects International Relations" in the most recent issue of the Journal of Politics.  "We introduce generalizable metrics of structural imbalance and foreign-relations shifts.

Sharif Amlani, Spencer Kiesel, and Ross Butters have published their article on "Polarization in COVID-19 Vaccine Discussion Networks" in American Politics Research.  They analyze "how the social networks we inhabit might explain persistent vaccine hesitancy." Nicely done!

Congratulations to Professor Peritz on the publication of her book: Delivering on Promises: The Domestic Politics of Compliance in International Courts (University of Chicago Press).  "At a time when international agreements are under attack, this book sheds light on the complex relationship between domestic politics and international economic cooperation."

Professor Boudreau is a panelist at a UCCS/New Electorate Project panel this week on "California’s Voting Rights Expansion: Evidence and Impacts."  She will be discussing the electoral effects of recent policy changes intended to make voting easier and more widespread in California.  

Graduate Student Joseph Bonneau has a new paper with the Institute for Replication on "From Anti-Corruption to Economics: An Extension of Tsai et al. (2021)."  From the Abstract: "I reproduced their original findings, and did not find any notable coding errors while doing so. Then . . . I engaged in an extension of the original model . . .

Professor Highton has shared some of his thoughts about the recent midterm elections with UC Davis Magazine.  "Because I was expecting the polls to be wrong, I was surprised at how well the Democrats did."

Professors Hosek and Peritz have published their article on "Crafting Trade Policy in the United States House of Representatives" in the Quarterly Journal of Political Science.  Among their findings: "[We] show that legislators who represent districts hardest hit by trade competition promote protectionism at a higher rate. We find strong evidence that district economic conditions reinforce the party position for Democrats and reveal intra-party cleavages among Republicans."