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Vinod Aggarwal - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The Berkeley Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC) brings together scholars from various disciplines, institutes, and centers from Berkeley and around the world to foster collaborative research on APEC and other trade-related issues. We are looking for students interested in working on the US-China superpower competition, particularly...
Social SciencesVinod Aggarwal - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
In a world of rising inequality and globalization, international coordination on tax policy has increased in importance. In this project, I investigate how international tax coordination was formed between states and how changes to the global tax rules affect the international investment environment. I argue that the global minimum tax...
Social SciencesVinod Aggarwal - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Business and Politics is an internationally ranked, peer-reviewed international political economy journal. This is a fantastic opportunity for students who desire social science writing and editing experience. This URAP also provides a unique inside look at the academic publishing process...
Social SciencesVinod Aggarwal - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
While most developing countries have adopted renewable energy policies, adopters vary widely in their success to kickstart a renewable energy industry. Some have installed a lot of renewable energy like Thailand and Vietnam, while others like Indonesia struggle to sustain investment. This project leverages firm level data to understand how...
Social SciencesChristopher Ansell - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Advanced German, Polish, or Hungarian language skills are needed to participate in this project.** The European continent has undergone major shifts since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Eleven countries have emerged from a totalitarian Communist system, embracing capitalism and democracy and joining the European Union. These transitions had major...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesChristopher Ansell - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The European Union is a complex international organization that influences all aspects of contemporary European politics and society. While scholars have studied how the European Union interacts with nations a great deal, it is often portrayed as having a limited capacity to enforce its rules and norms at the national...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesChristopher Ansell - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Parliamentary questions are one of the key means of oversight in the European Union. This project aims to analyze the ways that this oversight process is used at the European level through large scale, quantitative text analysis, machine learning, and statistical methods as well as finalize the data structure for...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesDavid Broockman - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Scholars and commentators argue that Congress is broken because both parties' politicians take increasingly extreme positions on issues, failing to listen to voters. However, these claims are based on assuming that politicians of both parties don't adjust which proposals they make as voters' demands and the world change. In other...
Ryan Brutger - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
My research studies international negotiations, international organizations, and domestic public support for international cooperation and economic policies. This includes a range of substantive issues, such as the negotiations surrounding the Iran-nuclear deal, the World Trade Organization, climate-change talks, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and antitrust policy. My research...
Social SciencesJennifer Bussell - Professor, Political Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will evaluate the relationship between the responsiveness of politicians to individual requests for assistance and their future political performance. Specifically, we will merge previously collected experimental data on the response, or lack thereof, of politicians in India to requests for help accessing government services, with subsequent data on...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJennifer Bussell - Professor, Political Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines the character of global clothing production and (re)use. At this stage of the project we will be collecting descriptive qualitative and quantitative data on (1) the political economy of clothing production and distribution, with an emphasis on fast fashion; (2) patterns of secondhand clothing trade, (3...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJennifer Bussell - Professor, Political Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project seeks to understand the dynamics of the textiles industry in India, with special attention to the political economy of production. In this stage of the research, we will be focused on collecting background materials about the industry, including statistics on both small-and large-scale production, documentation of...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesLowell Dittmer - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project consists of the analysis of Beijing's grand strategiy under Xi Jinping, bearing in mind that this strategy has political, economic, anc cultural dimensions.HOw? By reading selected texts of Chinese leaders and intellectuals...
Social SciencesLowell Dittmer - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Sino-American relations have polarized in the past decade or so, with a major impact on American strategic orientation. The focus of this project is the Indo-Pacific strategy currently being worked out to defend American political and economic interests. We are interested in the origins, rationale, and feasibility of...
Social SciencesMarika Landau-Wells - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
People are exposed to stories of all kinds in their daily lives, including appealing but false stories such as conspiracy theories. One way to understand the causal influence of stories on beliefs and behaviors is to use them as experimental treatments. The outcomes of these experiments can vary widely depending...
Social SciencesMarika Landau-Wells - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Threat perception has always played a major role in foreign and domestic policy-making. From Covid to climate change to terrorism, policy-makers have made decisions about which potential threats to address and which to ignore. This project investigates how policy-makers in the U.S. and in other countries determine...
Social SciencesMarika Landau-Wells - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Neuroscientists have studied the brain's response to threatening stimuli since the earliest days of brain imaging. Yet there is no single catalogue of threat perception studies and their findings. Meta-analysis involves using data from many studies to characterize the collective state of knowledge in a field. This project seeks...
Social SciencesMarika Landau-Wells - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Social scientists often assign categorical values to text data in order to structure it (e.g., categorizing statements made by Congress members as pro- or anti-immigration). Traditionally, this coding has been done manually by humans who read and categorize the texts of interest. This method risks both systematic error (e.g...
Social SciencesAila Matanock - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This research project examines policing in places that have had civil conflict and related crime, as well as peace agreements and interventions, specifically. We are focusing on a review of community-oriented policing in these contexts as well as how the end of conflict changes policing...
Social SciencesAila Matanock - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This research project examines how and why foreign intervention occurs by domestic invitation, as well as to what effect these invited interventions have on the rule of law. Intervention by invitation is increasingly used by intergovernmental organizations pooling resources to deal with transnational concerns. The treaties that enact these agreements...
Social SciencesAila Matanock - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This is one of three pieces of a collaborative project between Professors Arriola, Matanock, and Mattes.) Countries around the world are increasingly confronting violent irregular threats such as insurgencies and terrorism. Yet, many countries have proven unable to effectively deploy their security institutions (including regular militaries, paramilitaries, and police) when...
Social SciencesCecilia Mo - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This uses focuses on designing and implementing a nationally-representative survey to examine the prevalence, knowledge, and attitudes surrounding child trafficking and forced labor in Jamaica. Previous studies have reported that in Jamaica, 1 in 12 children work at least one hour a week and of those working children, 71.3...
Social SciencesCecilia Mo - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines of how official narratives of Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation War in national social studies textbooks have shifted over time. Since independence, history textbooks in Bangladesh have been sites of contestation, undergoing politically motivated revisions with each new regime that has come into power. With the goal of examining...
Social SciencesCecilia Mo - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Throughout history, women have often been omitted from narratives and histories of war. A Woman’s War, an oral history project that includes narratives of over 120 women across six countries---Bangladesh, Egypt, Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Vietnam, and the United States---seeks to examine the intersection of individual and collective experiences...
Social SciencesCecilia Mo - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project focuses on the impact of mental health in post-conflict and forced migration contexts. There are two primary research areas within the larger project: (1) producing a systematic review article on how living through and beyond trauma impact communities affected by conflict and forced migration, and (2) conducting...
Social SciencesAlison Post - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Despite historical experience and health state capacity, Brazil has struggled to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Whereas past administrations have proactively mobilized resources to combat pandemics, Bolsanaro’s administration has taken a more passive role, claiming that the negative effects of quarantine measures outweigh positive benefits. The lack of a federal...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesAlison Post - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
What are the main types of concerns that citizens bring to mayors and city councilors in Latin America? What sorts of incentives do public officials have to address these concerns? And how do these dynamics vary between cities of different sizes? In this project, we will investigate local-level politics...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesSteven Vogel - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
I will be actively working on several projects in Fall 2023. 1) I will be conducting research for an international project sponsored by the Canon Institute in Japan called the Global Order Framework Project. The project goals include developing guidelines and metrics for monitoring the behavior of governments and firms...
Social SciencesMartha Wilfahrt - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
How does the precolonial past influence contemporary African politics? This question animates a growing literature on precolonial legacies, yet this work has been hindered by imprecise and incomplete data on the nature of precolonial political organization. This project builds an original Atlas of Africa's precolonial polities in the 19th century...
Social SciencesMartha Wilfahrt - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The construction of the African colonial state saw extensive re-arranging of political space as European colonial powers sought to extend their control across newly claimed territories. In many cases, these subnational boundaries largely persist to the present, raising the question of how colonial visions of state-building influence contemporary...
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