MPP Faculty Spotlight: Professor Akee
Learn about Professor Akee's past and current research projects and classes he teaches in social policy.
Events for May 9 - Apr 25
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Public Policy
MPP Diversity Summit: Amplifying Intersectional Voices & Ideas
This is an opportunity to hear about UCLA MPP alumni and attend public policy webinar sessions on different topics from diverse lenses.
Analyzing the Latino Vote in the 2020 Elections
Virtual CA, United StatesA conversation about the impact of the record Latino voter turnout on key races, particularly in the presidential battleground states, and what it means for future elections.
Career Paths Speaker Series: Kelsey Mulcahy
ZoomKelsey is a public policy research manager on Facebook’s Data for Good team. She helps build survey data products that nonprofits and universities can use to improve the well-being of communities during times of crisis. She has also been a research program manager on Facebook’s Academic Relations team, focused on building strategic collaborative programs to […]
Opportunities and Obstacles for Rental Housing Registries
Virtual CA, United StatesPanel includes a California assemblywoman who is working to expand rental housing registries to aid in the enforcement of tenant protections.
Ethnography to Ethno-Graphic: Representing the Work of the Police
Virtual CA, United StatesA discussion led by Didier Fassin, whose research on police work in poor neighborhoods on the outskirts of Paris continues to echo in the public sphere.
UCLA Big Data and Politics Seminar
ZoomWebinar emphasizing the importance of studying coalitions among political actors, with new data on the politics of social media related to Pakistan’s 2018 general election.
PPASS: Adam Goodman
ZoomAdam Goodman Assistant Professor of History and Latin America and Latino Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago Title: The Deportation Machine Abstract: The Deportation Machine traces the long and troubling history of the US government’s systematic efforts to terrorize and expel immigrants over the past 140 years. In a sweeping and engaging narrative, Adam Goodman examines how […]
PPASS: Lucy Martin
ZoomLucy Martin Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Title: Marketing Taxation? Experimental Evidence on Enforcement and Bargaining in Malawian Markets Abstract: Many developing countries appear stuck in a cycle of low state capacity: insufficient tax revenues limit public goods provision, but citizens will not pay taxes until governance improves. There is […]
Homes for All: Building Coalitions for Equitable Planning in L.A.
Virtual CA, United StatesLuskin Summit continues with a panel on lessons learned from coalitions across the U.S. that achieved political and legislative wins while strengthening protection for those vulnerable to housing displacement.
