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The Department of Political Science at UC Riverside is proud to announce that PhD candidate Miki Hayashi has been awarded the prestigious University of California Dissertation Fellowship from the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC). Miki’s dissertation examines...
This summer marks a milestone for the Ronald O. Loveridge Public Service Fellowship, as we celebrate 10 years of preparing UC Riverside students for impactful careers in government, policy, and public service. Since its inception in 2015, the Fellowship has...
Associate Professor Nick Weller of UCR's Department of Political Science and collaborators at University of Southern California received a grant from the National Science Foundation titled: Measuring and Improving Traffic Stops: An AI-Powered Approach to Analyzing Bodyworn Camera Footage. The...
UCR Political Science PhD Candidate Eunseong Oh Wins Prestigious John T. Williams Dissertation Prize
We are proud to share that Eunseong Oh, a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of California, Riverside, has been awarded the 2025 John T. Williams Dissertation Prize by the Society for Political Methodology. This prestigious award recognizes...
Recent Publications
By Benjamin J. Newman, Tyler Reny, Marcel F. Roman, and David O. Sears
Benjamin J. Newman and Marcel Roman
Diogo Ferrari and Brianna A. Smith
Jeffery A. Jenkins and Nicholas G. Napolio
Insights
August 12, 2025
Gerrymandering erodes confidence in democracy
UCR political science professor Shaun Bowler used survey data from tens of thousands of voters in the 2020 and 2022 elections show that Americans view gerrymandering with the same disdain they reserve for bribery and other blatant forms of political corruption.
May 22, 2025
Marching to the beat of his own drum
UCR graduate student Donald Zárate is a U.S. Army Reservist and a committed community volunteer.
April 28, 2025
Platform developed at UCR reinvents the webinar
Online webinar platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams have enabled public discourse at an unprecedented scale. But when hundreds of people join a meeting, the flow of feedback—often reduced to rapid-fire chat messages—becomes chaotic and overwhelming.
September 30, 2024
UCR experts demystified voter props in online forum
Once again California voters are facing a plethora of state initiatives to decide on issues ranging from increasing penalties for theft and drug offenses to borrowing money to build schools.
To help voters better understand the myriad of propositions on the Nov. 5 ballot, the UC Riverside Office of Alumni Engagement and School of Public Policy hosted on Oct. 1 an informative webinar to help voter navigate the complexities of the 2024 California ballot propositions.