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Political Science Honors Colloquium
The Department of Political Science invites you to the 2016 Honors Colloquium with research presentations by this year's 15 honors students.
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Here is a list of tentative course offerings for Winter and Spring of 2017.
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Recent Graduate Student Publications
Department graduate students have recently published in Electoral Studies and the Asian Journal of Comparative Politics.
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Professor Woolley's Recent Article Referenced by New Yorker
Professor John Woolley's recent article on Dodd-Frank and Financial Reform was used by the New Yorker's May 16, 2016 story on "Banking's New Normal."
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Brown Bag Lunch on Careers Beyond Academia
Graduate students are invited to join Steve Boilard for a brown-bag lunch discussion on careers beyond academia. Dr. Boilard received his Ph.D. in Political Science from UCSB.
Graduate Student Roundtable on Fieldwork on Identity
The roundtable will be a discussion led by graduate students who recently conducted different types of fieldwork related to identity. Topics range from archives to elite interviews to surveys. Learn from their experiences and come share your own.
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Latha Varadarajan, San Diego State University
Emanuele Saccarelli, San Diego State University
Faculty Research Profile: Professor Bruce Bimber
Professor Bruce Bimber studies political behavior in the context of digital media. He is interested in how social media, as well as other facets of the Internet, affect how people think about politics and how they become involved in public affairs. In recent years he has studied people’s involvement in elections in the US and UK, boycotting over issues such as LGBT rights, what it means to be a “member” of an organization such as AARP or MoveOn, and how people choose and react to partisan political news.
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