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Amit Ahuja publishes Mobilizing the Marginalized: Ethnic Parties Without Ethnic Movements

Mobilizing the Marginalized: Ethnic Parties without Ethnic Movements

Amit Ahuja

ABSTRACT

In India, a young democratic system has undermined the legitimacy of a two-thousand-year-old social system that excluded and humiliated an entire people by treating them as untouchables.

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Benjamin Cohen discusses the currency tensions between America and China in Project Syndicate

Can America and China Avoid a Currency War?

Aug 8, 2019 BENJAMIN J. COHEN

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Leah Stokes featured as a climate policy expert on Cultures of Energy Podcast

Professor Leah Stokes is featured as a climate policy expert on the podcast Cultures of Energy. On episode 190, “Democrats on Climate (feat. Leah Stokes),” Stokes discusses the 2020 presidential Democratic candidates and media coverage (or lack of) on important climate issues:

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Leah Stokes discusses the Green New Deal on The Interchange

Leah Stokes describes why the Green New Deal plays well with voters. She also talks about how climate is shaping the presidential campaign, why Trump is now talking about the environment, and how fossil fuel incumbents shape public opinion. 

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Paasha Mahdavi and Julia Morse join the Council on Foreign Relations’ Stephen M. Kellen Term Member Program

The Stephen M. Kellen Term Member Program, established to cultivate the next generation of foreign policy leaders, encourages promising young women and men from diverse backgrounds to engage in a sustained conversation on international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. Each year, a new class of term members between the ages of thirty and thirty-six is elected to serve a fixed five-year membership term.

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Get to know Paasha Mahdavi

Visit UC Santa Barbara’s Social Science’s page for Five Things to Know About: Paasha Mahdavi.

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2019 Political Science Awards

The Department of Political Science had the honor of recognizing several undergraduate and graduate students who received campus and department awards for the 2015-2016 academic year. A full listing of students who were recognized at the awards presentation on June 9, 2016 are listed in this PDF.

Department award winners include:

Undergraduate Awards

Louis Lancaster Scholarship

Stephanie Arentz

Joseph Ebrahim

Yasamin Salari

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Identity Workshop: Amit Ahuja Event Image

Identity Workshop: Amit Ahuja

Event Start: May 30, 2019 07:30 AM

Event End: May 30, 2019 07:30 AM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824

The Color of Belonging: Skin Tone and Attitudes Towards Ethnic Voting in India

 

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