Ronald Loveridge received the Bob Stewart Award, the highest honor presented by Keep Riverside Clean & Beautiful, recognizing more than three decades of civic leadership and community engagement in Riverside. #UCR #Riverside #PublicService

UCR researchers, including Prof. Marissa Brookes, have been awarded a $250,000 Sloan Foundation grant to study the clean energy transition at the San Bernardino rail logistics hub. The project examines how electrification affects workers, communities, and policy decisions #ClimatePolicy #CleanEnergy

Prof. Kevin Esterling delivered the closing keynote at UC Open Summit 2026 at UC Berkeley, where he examined how open-source and proprietary AI systems shape democracy and public discourse. #AI #Democracy #PublicSphere #PoliticalScience #UCOpenSummit

Professors Kim Yi Dionne and Farah Godrej have been named associate editors of Political Research Quarterly, joining the journal’s new editorial team. A major recognition of their contributions to the field. #PoliticalScience #AcademicPublishing

Jieun Lee was selected for UCR’s Dissertation Program Award, a competitive Graduate Division fellowship recognizing her academic accomplishments. The award provides two quarters of support for focused dissertation research in 2026–27. #PoliticalScience #PhDLife #AcademicTwitter

Graduate student Wataru Onishi (2026) develops a framework outlining the limitations of partisan motivated reasoning and supports it with evidence from the UK Partygate scandal. Published in Research & Politics, 13(1) doi.org/10.1177/2053... #PoliticalBehavior #PublicOpinion #ComparativePolitics

Support UCR Moot Court ⚖️ They’ve raised $1,325 so far, but every bit helps cover travel + competition costs for students competing at top levels. If you can, donate or share: tinyurl.com/38fvcezk Invest in the next generation of legal advocates.

Honored to give the Lindon Barrett Award in Black Studies talk. 📅 Dec 4, 3:00 PM 📍 HMNSS 1500, UCR I’ll share work from “Here and Now,” on how everyday Black life makes utopia a lived practice of imagining + living otherwise —hope to see you there #BlackUtopias #Otherwise #BlackLiterature #fiction

Congrats to PhD student Donald Zarate on his new publication in Political Research Quarterly: “From Exclusion to Utopia: A Comparative Study of Intentional Community Formation.” Read full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Here's how three professors started a research academy - training undergrad students in research methods and then matching them to faculty mentors to apprentice as RAs for 10 weeks! Ft. @dadakim.bsky.social & @ucrpolisci.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1017/S104... #polisky #academisky

💫Thrilled to support two amazing @ucrpolisci.bsky.social PhD students on the market this year: Felicity Turkmen @fulyafelicity.bsky.social & Eun-A Park @kafei0220.bsky.social. Their exciting projects bridge Comparative Politics & IR, and writing letters for them made me want to spotlight their work.

Check out this new @bjpols.bsky.social article from Asst. Prof. @nicholasnapolio.bsky.social: “Executive Policymaking Coalitions, Veto Activation, and Collective Action Problems.” The article explores how agency coalitions activate veto points and leverage congressional collective action problems.

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The final paper from my dissertation is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social! I argue that federal agencies collaborate in the policymaking process in order to induce collective action problems in Congress and to pit oversight committees against each other so that agency policies stick.

Congrats to UCR PoliSci PhD candidate Miki Hayashi on being named a UC Institute on Global Conflict & Cooperation Dissertation Fellow! Her work explores how great power economic ties to rivals shape alliances. More via @ucigcc.bsky.social → ucigcc.org/funding/diss... #UCR #PoliticalScience

Proud to celebrate 10 years of the Ronald O. Loveridge Public Service Fellowship! This year’s 13 fellows continue the tradition of service, gaining hands-on experience across California in government, advocacy, and policy. See highlights from the Sacramento reception in the photo collage below.

Greg B. Hutchins@gregbhutchins.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to 2025 Ronald O. Loveridge Public Service Fellows. I still fondly remember my time as a fellow in 2017, and I know it has certainly shaped my career since. Proud of my home department @ucrpolisci.bsky.social for keeping this program running.

New publication in @pnas.org from UCR’s Ben Newman! They find future cops start college already holding more right-leaning views than their peers on race, gender, immigration, and more. Differences shrink for non-Whites, but drop sharply for women. Full study → doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #polisky

One of my @ucrpolisci.bsky.social undergraduate students wrote this blog post! I'm so grateful for our partnership with @3streamsblog.bsky.social to bring political science research to a broader public. If you're not already following @poscresearch.bsky.social, please check out what we're sharing.

Political Science Research@poscresearch.bsky.social · last yr.

🇨🇳 Is #China really socialist? New research featured on @3streamsblog.bsky.social questions whether a country with booming markets, billionaire elites, and weak labor rights fits Marx’s vision of socialism. Dive in 👇 medium.com/3streams/is-... #polisky #Socialism

Check out this new publication from UCR’s @dioferrari.bsky.social! Does feeling threatened lead voters to back more conservative candidates? A new experiment finds partisanship and policy matter more than status threat. Read in J. Exp. Pol. Sci: doi.org/10.1017/XPS.... #UCR #polisky

🚨 New NSF-funded project! UCR’s Nick Weller & USC collaborators are using AI to analyze LAPD traffic stop footage. The goal? Understand officer-driver communication and improve outcomes. Learn more: dornsife.usc.edu/everydayresp... #polisky #UCR

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Congratulations to UCR Political Science PhD candidate Eunseong Oh, winner of the 2025 John T. Williams Dissertation Prize from PolMeth! Her project uses deep learning and multi-modal data to measure bipartisan cooperation — an exciting step forward for political methodology. #UCR #polisky

Congrats to Kashish Rai and Lauren Vega, recipients of #UCR Political Science’s Outstanding Student Award! 🎉 Honorable mentions: Faridah Adelotan and Sophia Fu. We’re proud of your academic excellence and service! More info can be found here: politicalscience.ucr.edu/awards-schol...

Congratulations to @jieun-lee.bsky.social on receiving a Dissertation Research Grant from the Russell Sage Foundation! 🎓 Her project on partisan dehumanization and its political consequences is timely and important. 👏 🔗 www.russellsage.org/awarded-proj...

Political Consequences and Remedies of Partisan Dehumanization in the

Partisan dehumanization—conceiving members of the other party as less than fully human beings—is not a new phenomenon nor is it limited to elite partisans. Recent studies find that rank-and-file membe...

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Congrats to Donald Zarate (PhD student, Political Science) on winning UCR’s 2025 Lindon Barrett Award for his essay “Here and Now: Black Perspectives on Antiutopianism.” A powerful reflection on Black utopian traditions and their radical possibilities. 👏 #UCR

New publication alert! Current PhD candidate @hobbsadam.bsky.social and recent PhD graduate Deren Onursal develop and test a general theory of protest radicalization in "The Dynamics of Protest Radicalization." Read more here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #polisky #politicalscience

Gregory Hutchins (PhD Candidate) and UCR GSA Advocacy Officer visited DC to advocate for UCR. He met with Congressman Takano’s office alongside UCR alum Tanner Martson (Legislative Correspondent) and current student Jasmine Esmail (UCDC intern at UC Fed Advocacy). Great job! #UCR #Advocacy #HigherEd

The UCR chapter of @pisigmaalpha.bsky.social is hosting a symposium for undergraduate and graduate students interested in political science research on Friday, May 23rd in SSC MPR-1. See attached flyer for full itinerary. Hope to see you there! #UCR #UCRCHASS @ucrchass.bsky.social

Don't forget to come see @snsoroka.bsky.social present his co-authored research today! See flyer for more details.

UCR Political Science@ucrpolisci.bsky.social · last yr.

We are excited to be hosting @snsoroka.bsky.social to present his co-authored project "Political Polarization as a Co-Adaptive Process." See the flyer for more details. We hope to see you there. @ucrchass.bsky.social #polisky #politicalscience #polarization

We are excited to be hosting @snsoroka.bsky.social to present his co-authored project "Political Polarization as a Co-Adaptive Process." See the flyer for more details. We hope to see you there. @ucrchass.bsky.social #polisky #politicalscience #polarization

Publication alert! Departmental PhD graduate Nick Willis and current Professor @indridi.bsky.social published an article in the journal French Politics. See below for more information: Read here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #polisky #Elections #UCRPoliSci

🎉 Congrats to Sarah Siddique & Harry Muttram! 🎉 We’re proud to announce that both have been named Outstanding Teaching Assistants for 2024–2025 by UCR’s Graduate Division 👏 Their dedication to undergraduate teaching and excellence in the classroom reflect the very best of our department.

Congrats to UCR PhD alum @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social on their new publication in Contemporary Political Theory! 🐻✨ Kehlenbach critiques the Lockean property model of data and offers a compelling alternative lens to view data. Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...