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American Immigration Attitudes and NIMBYism

UCR graduate students Jieun Lee and Harry G. Muttram examine whether Americans’ immigration attitudes change depending on spatial scale—national, state, city, or neighborhood. Their findings, published in PS: Political Science & Politics, show modest evidence of NIMBYism but little variation...
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Welcoming the 2025 Graduate Cohort

Welcoming the 2025 Graduate Cohort On Wednesday, September 24, 2024, the Department of Political Science hosted its annual New Graduate Student Orientation in the Jenkin Library. The event welcomed our incoming Ph.D. students and introduced them to faculty, staff, and...
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UCR to Host 20th Anniversary Meeting of PRIEC

The Department of Political Science at UC Riverside will host the 20th anniversary meeting of the Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium (PRIEC) on Friday, October 3, 2025. The event brings together scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates for a...
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UCR Political Science PhD Candidate Miki Hayashi Named UC IGCC Dissertation Fellow

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...
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Recent Publications

Lee, Jieun, and Harry G. Muttram. 2025. “American Immigration Attitudes and NIMBYism: Do Immigration Preferences Vary by Spatial Scale?” PS: Political Science & Politics, October 3, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096525101467.

Carreras, Miguel, Sofia Vera, & Giancarlo Visconti. "Money and Time in Access to Public Services: How Do Citizens Evaluate Different Forms of Bureaucratic Corruption?." Comparative Politics (2024).

 

Ferrari, Diogo (2022). The Effect of Party Identification and Party Cues on Populist Attitudes. Research & Politics.

Godrej, Farah. Freedom Inside? Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State (Oxford University Press, 2022) 

Liao, Steven, & Daniel McDowell. Closing Time: Reputational Constraints on Capital Account Policy in Emerging Markets. The Review of International Organizations

Insights

The U.S. Capitol lit up at night.
September 16, 2025
Representation translates into more support for LGBT rights 
In a study published in PS: Political Science & Politics, University of California, Riverside researchers found that openly lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) members of the United States Congress took more actions to promote LGB and trans people’s rights than non-LGB colleagues with otherwise similar backgrounds. 
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Texas congressional districts
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.
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Portrait of Donald Zárate, 27, a sergeant in the U.S. Army Reserve, and a graduated from CHASS with a BA in political science and a BS in psychology. (UCR/Stan Lim)
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.
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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.
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