Department of Political Science Bulletin, October 25, 2021
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Political Science COVID-19 Prevention Plan is also located on our website. If you come to campus, you are required to review the plan and take the UW General COVID-19 safety training.
The Department of Political Science Main Office will have adjusted office hours for Autumn 2021. The office hours are as follows:
Monday: 8AM-12PM, 1-5PM
Tuesday: 8AM-12PM, 1-5PM
Wednesday: 8AM-12PM, 1-3:15PM, 4:30-5PM
Thursday: 8AM-12PM, 1:45-5PM
Friday: 8AM-12PM, 1-3:15PM, 4:30-5PM
FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENTS PAPERS, PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES:
WIDoMSV Part 4: In August, Tony Gill penned two articles for the American Institute for Economic Research: "Are Big Companies Ripping Us Off?" and "Economics Explains the Taliban's Rapid Advances," the latter of which became a WSJ op-ed.
With the help of Nela Mrchkovska, Tony Gill finally acquired a reasonably decent professional website filled with papers, pictures, posters, and puppets.
WIDoMSV Part 3b: Not satisfied with only writing for AIER this summer, Tony Gill waded into theological controversies with his political economy insights over at Law & Liberty with an article entitled "Divine Diseconomy." Tony's current co-author on the gifting project, Michael Thomas, weighed in with a counter point a week later demonstrating the virtue and benefits of civil disagreement in academia.
Radnitz, Scott. “Dilemmas of Distrust: Conspiracy Beliefs, Elite Rhetoric, and Motivated Reasoning.” Political Research Quarterly, October 16, 2021.
Susan Whiting and Zhaowen Guo, "State Power and Legal Mobilization in Land Grievances: A Survey Experiment in China," Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, October 3, 2021. Thanks to Michael McCann for chairing the panel on Comparative Legal Mobilization.
Susan Whiting's analysis of the Evergrande real estate crisis in China appeared in the Washington Post Monkey Cage on October 21, 2021.
Susan Whiting participated in the virtual China Town Hall panel discussion hosted by the Washington State China Relations Council and the National Committee on US-China Relations on October 19, 2021.
POLITICAL SCIENCE TALKS/SEMINARS:
The Center for Environmental Politics presents Anu Ramaswami (Princeton University), “Unpacking Income and Racial Inequality in Sustainable Urban Systems: Framework and Application.” Friday, November 5, 2021, 12 – 1:30PM in Gowen 1A (Olson Room). RSVP to come.
Department Faculty Panel: Noga Rotem, Jack Turner, Jamie Mayerfeld, and Michael McCann “Is Democracy Dead?” Tuesday, November 16, 2021, 5:30-7:00PM via Zoom. RSVP at https://events.uw.edu/IsDemocracyDead
The Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics presents Eduardo Montero (University of Chicago).Discussant is Megan Erickson (University of Washington). Friday, November 19, 2021, 1:30 – 3 PM in Gowen 1A (Olson Room).
OTHER DEPARTMENT TALKS/SEMINARS:
The Ellison Center presents Nina Jankowicz, “How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict”. Monday, November 8, 4:30PM via Zoom. Register at this link.
Please send newsletter items to Natalie (nc9927@uw.edu) by noon on Thursday