UCR Political Science

💫Thrilled to support two amazing @ucrpolisci.bsky.social PhD students on the market this year: Felicity Turkmen @fulyafelicity.bsky.social & Eun-A Park @kafei0220.bsky.social. Their exciting projects bridge Comparative Politics & IR, and writing letters for them made me want to spotlight their work.

Check out this new @bjpols.bsky.social article from Asst. Prof. @nicholasnapolio.bsky.social: “Executive Policymaking Coalitions, Veto Activation, and Collective Action Problems.” The article explores how agency coalitions activate veto points and leverage congressional collective action problems.

Congrats to UCR PoliSci PhD candidate Miki Hayashi on being named a UC Institute on Global Conflict & Cooperation Dissertation Fellow!

Her work explores how great power economic ties to rivals shape alliances.

More via @ucigcc.bsky.social → ucigcc.org/funding/diss...

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Proud to celebrate 10 years of the Ronald O. Loveridge Public Service Fellowship! This year’s 13 fellows continue the tradition of service, gaining hands-on experience across California in government, advocacy, and policy.

See highlights from the Sacramento reception in the photo collage below.

New publication in @pnas.org from UCR’s Ben Newman! They find future cops start college already holding more right-leaning views than their peers on race, gender, immigration, and more. Differences shrink for non-Whites, but drop sharply for women. Full study → doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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One of my @ucrpolisci.bsky.social undergraduate students wrote this blog post! I'm so grateful for our partnership with @3streamsblog.bsky.social to bring political science research to a broader public.

If you're not already following @poscresearch.bsky.social, please check out what we're sharing.

Check out this new publication from UCR’s @dioferrari.bsky.social!

Does feeling threatened lead voters to back more conservative candidates? A new experiment finds partisanship and policy matter more than status threat.

Read in J. Exp. Pol. Sci: doi.org/10.1017/XPS....

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Home - Everyday Respect Analyzing Police Officer Communication During Traffic Stops

🚨 New NSF-funded project!

UCR’s Nick Weller & USC collaborators are using AI to analyze LAPD traffic stop footage. The goal? Understand officer-driver communication and improve outcomes.

Learn more: dornsife.usc.edu/everydayresp...

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Congratulations to UCR Political Science PhD candidate Eunseong Oh, winner of the 2025 John T. Williams Dissertation Prize from PolMeth! Her project uses deep learning and multi-modal data to measure bipartisan cooperation — an exciting step forward for political methodology.

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Congrats to Kashish Rai and Lauren Vega, recipients of #UCR Political Science’s Outstanding Student Award! 🎉 Honorable mentions: Faridah Adelotan and Sophia Fu. We’re proud of your academic excellence and service!

More info can be found here:

politicalscience.ucr.edu/awards-schol...

Political Consequences and Remedies of Partisan Dehumanization in the Partisan dehumanization—conceiving members of the other party as less than fully human beings—is not a new phenomenon nor is it limited to elite partisans. Recent studies find that rank-and-file membe...

Congratulations to @jieun-lee.bsky.social on receiving a Dissertation Research Grant from the Russell Sage Foundation! 🎓 Her project on partisan dehumanization and its political consequences is timely and important. 👏
🔗 www.russellsage.org/awarded-proj...

Congrats to Donald Zarate (PhD student, Political Science) on winning UCR’s 2025 Lindon Barrett Award for his essay “Here and Now: Black Perspectives on Antiutopianism.” A powerful reflection on Black utopian traditions and their radical possibilities. 👏 #UCR

New publication alert! Current PhD candidate @hobbsadam.bsky.social and recent PhD graduate Deren Onursal develop and test a general theory of protest radicalization in "The Dynamics of Protest Radicalization."

Read more here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Gregory Hutchins (PhD Candidate) and UCR GSA Advocacy Officer visited DC to advocate for UCR. He met with Congressman Takano’s office alongside UCR alum Tanner Martson (Legislative Correspondent) and current student Jasmine Esmail (UCDC intern at UC Fed Advocacy). Great job!
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The UCR chapter of @pisigmaalpha.bsky.social is hosting a symposium for undergraduate and graduate students interested in political science research on Friday, May 23rd in SSC MPR-1. See attached flyer for full itinerary. Hope to see you there!

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Don't forget to come see @snsoroka.bsky.social present his co-authored research today! See flyer for more details.

We are excited to be hosting @snsoroka.bsky.social to present his co-authored project "Political Polarization as a Co-Adaptive Process." See the flyer for more details. We hope to see you there.

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Publication alert! Departmental PhD graduate Nick Willis and current Professor @indridi.bsky.social published an article in the journal French Politics. See below for more information:

Read here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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🎉 Congrats to Sarah Siddique & Harry Muttram! 🎉

We’re proud to announce that both have been named Outstanding Teaching Assistants for 2024–2025 by UCR’s Graduate Division 👏

Their dedication to undergraduate teaching and excellence in the classroom reflect the very best of our department.

Congrats to UCR PhD alum @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social on their new publication in Contemporary Political Theory! 🐻✨

Kehlenbach critiques the Lockean property model of data and offers a compelling alternative lens to view data.

Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Dont forget, we are hosting Professor Sharece Thrower today! See the flyer for more details.

🎉 Congratulations to Karina Alpayeva! 🎉

Karina, a second-year Ph.D. student in Political Science at UC Riverside, has received an Honorable Mention in this year’s Grad Slam competition!

👏 Please join us in celebrating Karina and all of this year’s winners! @ucrchass.bsky.social #polisky

Next up on the schedule for our speaker series, Professor Sharece Thrower from Vanderbilt University! See the flyer for more details and don't forget to save the date.

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🎉 Congrats to Mirena A. Munich, recipient of the Spring APSA Diversity Fellowship! Her research explores institutional trust among Latino immigrant communities, focusing on healthcare, political behavior & intergenerational skepticism. 👏 #PoliSci #HigherEd

We are so excited for Professor Angelia Wilson today! Come check out her book talk. See the flyer for details.

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flyer for grad slam final announcing finalists. For details, click link in post.

Congratulations to @ucrpolisci.bsky.social PhD student Karina Alpayeva for making it to the finals of this year's @ucriverside.bsky.social Grad Slam. Come watch her presentation and those of other finalists today @ 5pm.

events.ucr.edu/event/2025-g...

And kudos to Jaylynn Lopez for an Honorable Mention for “Mexico’s PRI: From Power to Demise, and Related Consequences.” Incredible work from both! 📝🎉

🎉 Big congrats to Riley Fong, winner of the 2025 Jenkin Outstanding Paper Award for “Policing, Protests, and Policy: “Policing, Protests, and Policy: The Impacts of Institutional Backlash on Student Activists.””! 👏

Thrilled to share that @zabdiveee.bsky.social, a Poli Sci PhD student at #UCLA and #UCR alum, received an Honorable Mention for the 2025 NSF GRFP! 🎉

His work on environmental & distributive politics explores how utility access shapes political participation. Congrats, Zabdi! 👏