Study highlights key social forces shaping worldwide academic freedom trends

UC Irvine sociologists find liberty to teach and learn is being threatened

Roxane Cohen Silver

NSF supports research studying how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine affects Americans

Roxane Cohen Silver leads UCI team awarded a RAPID grant to begin survey

Democracy in action

UCI’s Louis DeSipio and David Meyer put presidential politics into perspective

Vicente Fox talks democracy, Mexico at UCI

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox will discuss the future of democracy in Latin America April 8.

Which way democracy?

Leading a team of social scientists, Russell Dalton is taking the pulse of the governed

Son of former Shah of Iran to speak at UCI

Reza Pahlavi will talk May 6 on “Iran-U.S. Relations at a New Crossroad,” a lecture sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democracy and the Department of Political Science.

Opinion: We need the GOP to flatten the curve

The Hill, April 7, 2020 (Opinon)

Rick Hasen, Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science

Heading off an ‘election meltdown’

Feb. 28 conference will explore what-if scenarios that could undermine public acceptance of November vote results

Ezra Klein, Vox co-founder and editor-at-large, to deliver Peltason Lecture at UCI

EVENT:  Ezra Klein, editor-at-large and one of the founders of Vox, the award-winning news and opinion website, will speak on identity politics at UCI’s 16th Peltason Lecture. WHEN/WHERE:   4-5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, in Pacific Ballroom D in the Student Center (bldg. 113, grid D5 on campus map: https://www.parking.uci.edu/maps/documents/UCI-CampusCore_2018.pdf), followed by a reception. INFORMATION:  The […]

Former congressman named Dean’s Visiting Professor in UCI School of Social Sciences

Former U.S. Rep. John B.T. Campbell III has been appointed the 2015-16 Dean’s Visiting Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Previously held by former California Assemblyman Jose Solorio, the position involves teaching two undergraduate courses: The U.S. Congress and The American Legislator, the latter of which is a new class Campbell is developing for the spring quarter.