Congrats to Political Science Professor Anil Menon and co- authors who were featured in JHPPL for their article, ""Thoughts and Prayers": The (Non) Effect of Partisan Response to Mass Shootings on Public Opinion."
Read article here: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
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Mental Health in Times of Democratic Backsliding: Insights from Trump's Second Term | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press
Congrats to Political Science Professor Christopher Ojeda who was featured in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law for his article, "Mental Health in Times of Democratic Backsliding: Insights from Trump's Second Term."
Read article here: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
19.02.2026 17:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This Thursday 2/5 is our next Politics & Pastries session! Take a break and have some coffee and pastries with our faculty in the CAPE office (SSM 130)!!
03.02.2026 19:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by CISAC Stanford (CISACStanford)
Anonymous Online Survey Detection of Political Violence, Social Unrest and Human Rights Violations
Professor @andrewcshaver.bsky.social recently delivered an inspiring talk at Stanford CISAC, "Anonymous Online Survey Detection of Political Violence, Social Unrest, and Human Rights Violations."
We’re excited to share the full talk, please watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7ja...
12.12.2025 21:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
QJPS Editors on X: "From the latest issue of the QJPS, "Civilian Harm, Wartime Informing, and Counterinsurgent Operations" by @austinlwright, @lukencondra, JN Shapiro, @AndrewCShaver. A thread." / X
From the latest issue of the QJPS, "Civilian Harm, Wartime Informing, and Counterinsurgent Operations" by @austinlwright, @lukencondra, JN Shapiro, @AndrewCShaver. A thread.
Congrats to Prof. @andrewcshaver.bsky.social and researchers for their feature in the latest issue of QJPS, "Civilian Harm, Wartime Informing, and Counterinsurgent Operations".
10.12.2025 20:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
They’re growing up in the Trump era. Here’s what they want from the next president.
What a president for Gen Alpha might be like.
"Kids start to have some conception of government as early as kindergarten, but really begin to understand politics in middle or high school."
@ucmerced.bsky.socialPoliSci Prof. Christopher Ojeda spoke with @voxdotcom.bsky.social
www.vox.com/life/467571/...
14.11.2025 18:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Prop. 50 could nudge Stanislaus and Merced counties to the political left, experts say
Voters in Stanislaus and Merced counties showed less enthusiasm for Proposition 50 than elsewhere in California – to no one’s surprise.
“While there are certainly partisans in both (Stanislaus and Merced counties), there is a long history of representatives who have done well by being what we might call `Valleycrats’ who play very moderate roles.”
@ucmerced.bsky.social PoliSci Professor Nathan Monroe
www.kvpr.org/government-p...
14.11.2025 18:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This Thursday 11/6 is our next Politics & Pastries session! Take a break from the mid-semester hustle to have some coffee and pastries with our faculty in the CAPE office (SSM 130)!
03.11.2025 23:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats to Prof. @andrewcshaver.bsky.social and researchers from the Political Violence Lab on their new working paper - Anonymous Online Survey Detection (and Journalist Verification) of Political Violence, Social Unrest, and Human Rights Violations: Results from Bangladesh and Pakistan
03.11.2025 21:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hey undergrads! Join our faculty and CAPE next Wednesday 10/29 12-1PM in the CAPE office for pizza, candy, and learning about what our programs can do for your future! Plus Spring registration is coming up and this is your chance to get insights on Spring PoliSci courses! All students are welcome!
23.10.2025 22:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Future Shock or Future Shrug? Public Responses to Varied Artificial Intelligence Development Timelines | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
Prof. @armenon.bsky.social and coauthor Baobao Zhang explore public views on workplace automation in their new article "Future Shock or Future Shrug? Public Responses to Varied Artificial Intelligence Development Timelines" published in The Journal of Politics.
doi.org/10.1086/739200
21.10.2025 21:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Join @ucmerced.bsky.social Prof. Elaine Denny and special guest Sol Rivas (Executive Director, Valley Onward) on 11/11 at 3PM for a workshop on Imposter Syndrome. All students welcome!
20.10.2025 16:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When Children of Public Figures Go Public With Their Dissent
"Young people end up choosing between conflict with their families and conflict with their peers"
@ucmerced.bsky.social PoliSci Professor Christopher Ojeda spoke with @nytimes.com about when children of public figures go public with their dissent.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/s...
15.10.2025 22:52 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Does the Messenger Shape the Message’s Effect? Race, Black Lives Matter, and the Efficacy of Social Movement Messages | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
📰 Matt Hibbing, Tarah Williams, Paul Testa, Karra McCray Gibson & Kylee Britzman used an experimental design that allowed some participants to choose their message source, showing substantial messenger effects that would be missed by traditional experiment.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
03.10.2025 23:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Interested in @ucmerced.bsky.social's Political Science Graduate Program? Connect with our Political Science faculty and learn about graduate study opportunities during one of the upcoming 1-hour webinar/Q&A sessions.
Register for a session here: polisci.ucmerced.edu/grads
03.10.2025 00:28 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats to @ucmerced.bsky.social Professor @armenon.bsky.social and coauthors on their new publication "The Effect of Historical Analogies on Foreign Policy Attitudes" in Security Studies!
02.10.2025 23:54 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bobcats! Come join us for the next Politics & Pastries event this Thursday 10/2 10:30-11:30AM in the CAPE Office. This session's faculty are Professors @courtenaymonroe.bsky.social and Elaine Denny, so come say hello and chat with them while enjoying coffee and pastries!
29.09.2025 22:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Please join the UC Merced Library for a Faculty Author Series talk featuring Political Science Assistant Professor Christopher Ojeda in KL 232 at noon on Oct 8. Dr. Ojeda will discuss his recent book, The Sad Citizen: How Politics is Depressing and Why it Matters. Register here: ucm.edu/fas-ojeda
29.09.2025 20:32 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Professor @marco-alcocer.bsky.social's new publication in The Journal of Conflict Resolution shows that wars between cartels in Mexico increase killings of law enforcement officers and make attacks more brazen. Check it out below!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
05.09.2025 22:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hey @ucmerced.bsky.social students! Join us for the first Politics & Pastries of the academic year this Thursday 9/4 10:30-11:30AM in the CAPE Office. This session's faculty are Profs @marco-alcocer.bsky.social and Christopher Ojeda, so come say hello and chat while enjoying coffee and pastries!
03.09.2025 21:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
July 21: Depressed By Politics? You’re Not Alone.
Politics have grown increasingly divisive in recent years, and that is making people more depressed. So, how can we manage in this modern society as informed citizens? On today’s show, UC Merced polit...
@ucmerced.bsky.social Prof Christopher Ojeda spoke on @kvprnews.bsky.social's Central Valley Daily podcast about his new book "The Sad Citizen: How Politics Is Depressing And Why It Matters", addressing the depressing divisiveness in modern politics. Listen here: www.kvpr.org/podcast/cent...
23.07.2025 20:58 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🚨New publication!🚨
What is the electoral cost of infringing on civil liberties? @ucmerced.bsky.social Poli Sci professor @armenon.bsky.social & co-author @charasz.bsky.social tackle this question in a forthcoming registered report in The Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1086/737687
22.07.2025 23:04 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Dr. Anil Menon Receives the 2025 Distinguished Early Career Research Award | Political Science
🎉 @armenon.bsky.social received the 2025 Award for Distinguished Early Career Research! This award recognizes an untenured @ucmerced.bsky.social Senate faculty member for research and/or other creative activities that have had a major impact on the field.
polisci.ucmerced.edu/news/2025/dr...
11.07.2025 23:16 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Female mayors and violence against women: evidence from Mexico | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Female mayors and violence against women: evidence from Mexico
Female mayors in Mexico reduce some of the most serious forms of violence against women.
Check out the new publication in @PSRMJournal by @ucmerced.bsky.social PoliSci Professor @marco-alcocer.bsky.social and coauthors Rachel Skillman and Angie Torres-Beltran.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
09.07.2025 20:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Disappointment. Grief. Loss. A set of emotions far less incendiary but just as damaging to democracy.
Read more about @ucmerced.bsky.social PoliSci professor Christopher Ojeda's new book “The Sad Citizen: How Politics is Depressing and Why It Matters” here ⤵️
ucm.edu/z0oiu3
09.07.2025 17:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
mexicana. citizens, bureaucracies, and the intermediaries in between. AsstProf at UC Merced. MIT PhD. surnames: Rizzo Reyes. www.tesaliarizzo.com
Political Junkie/Scientist; Associate Professor at UMass Amherst; Co-Director of the UMassPoll; Opinion, Elections, Polarization, Causal Inference;
UVA, Harvard Kennedy School, and UC Berkeley alum.
Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. Author of Segregation by Design and Political Monopolies in American Cities. 2022 Carnegie Fellow.
Information, opinion, and equilibrium. hhuang.org. “as Force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is therefore, on opinion only that government is founded.”
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Political Science Research and Methods: The journal of the European Political Science Association, edited by John Griffin, published by Cambridge University Press
British Journal of Political Science from @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org.
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BJPolS is now an open access journal and from 2025 will publish continuously with no more issues, just one volume per year.
Official Journal of the Society for Political Methodology
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The AJPS is the official journal of the MPSA, committed to significant advances in knowledge and understanding of citizenship, governance, and politics, and to the public value of political science research. Co-Editors: Adam Berinsky and Dan Reiter.
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