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From our new issue: "The Causes and Consequences of Refugee Flows: A Contemporary Reanalysis" by Andrew Shaver (Andrew Shaver) et al. #APSRNewIssue cambridge.org/core/journals/…

CAPE and UC Merced Political Science hosted students and faculty from San Joaquin Delta Community College to showcase our programs, pathways for transfer students, and hopefully recruit them as future bobcats! Thank you for visiting! #CAPEUCMerced #UCMerced #politicalscience

Come see us at our Political Science table THIS SATURDAY at Bobcat Day!

Registration is open for UC Merced's POLI 109 Legislative Simulation course! The course includes a field trip to the Capitol in Sacramento, and serves as a prerequisite for CAPE's Legislative Fellow program. Register now! #UCMercedCAPE #UCMerced #politicalscience #politics

How do life changes shape political behavior? Authors Ojeda, Jamila Michener, and Haselswerdt explore this question in the article, “The Politics of Personal Crisis: How Life Disruptions Shape Political Participation”. Read more at the open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Check out one of our latest research comics by UC Merced professor Anil Menon, "The Politics of Pain," based on an article with Nolan M. Kavanagh& Justin E Heinze in American Political Science Review escholarship.org/uc/item/8j2394…

Congrats to our Prof. Anil Menon on this new publication! Building on published papers & ongoing work from the past few years and integrating interdisciplinary research from the last few decades, this article is a valuable resource for both clinicians and policymakers!

Last weekend, CAPE Director and Professor Nathan Monroe hooded political science PhD student, Devon Moffett, and welcomed graduating fellows in the CAPE office. Congratulations to our political science graduates! #UCMercedCAPE #politicalscience #politics #classof2025 @UCMerced

Last week, we and CAPE at UC Merced ended the semester with our annual Bridges & Beyond event, bringing graduating and graduate PoliSci students together to network and build connections with faculty, campus administrators, and distinguished external guests. Congrats to our grads!

Professor and CAPE at UC Merced Director Nathan Monroe joined the conversation on Central Valley PolitiCast Ep. 64: To cut or not to cut? Future of Medicaid in the balance. Listen below! bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/to-…

Temnee Wright (’08) has realized a successful career as legal counsel at several Silicon Valley companies. Her interest in law was forged at UC Merced, where she made the most out of being a student in the university’s first undergraduate class. ucm.edu/zb6x1x

Last week, CAPE hosted our third annual legislative bootcamp, joined by The Maddy Institute and their Sacramento Interns. The Fellows and Maddy Interns have now started their six-week long Summer internships where they’ll be applying their bootcamp training! #UCMercedCAPE #polisci

NEW PODCAST EPISODE: Christopher Ojeda (UC Merced Political Science) joins host Lindsay Shingler to discuss his new book, "The Sad Citizen", and answer the question: “What do we do when what’s good for democracy is bad for our mental wellbeing?” Listen now: ucigcc.org/podcast/sad-ci…

Here are our hours for the summer! Feel free to stop by if you have any questions about the center or need any assistance! #CAPEUCMerced #UCMerced #politicalscience #politics

Congrats to Eliana Fonsah and our own Nihan Karagul🎉

Disappointment. Grief. Loss. A set of emotions far less incendiary but just as damaging to democracy. Read more about UC Merced PoliSci professor Christopher Ojeda's new book “The Sad Citizen: How Politics is Depressing and Why It Matters” here ⤵️ ucm.edu/z0oiu3

Female mayors in Mexico reduce some of the most serious forms of violence against women. Check out the new publication in PSRM Journal by UC Merced PoliSci Professor Marco Alcocer and coauthors Rachel Skillman and Angie Torres-Beltran. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Congrats Anil Menon on receiving the 2025 Award for Distinguished Early Career Research! This award recognizes an untenured UC Merced Senate faculty member for research and/or other creative activities that have had a major impact on the field. polisci.ucmerced.edu/news/2025/dr-a…

🚨New publication!🚨 What is the electoral cost of infringing on civil liberties? UC Merced Poli Sci professor Anil Menon & co-author Paweł Charasz tackle this question in a forthcoming registered report Journal of Politics @[email protected] ⤵️ doi.org/10.1086/737687

UC Merced political science professor, Anil Menon, and co-author Pawel Charasz, study the link between Poland's 2021 border emergency to shifts in voter behavior across two key elections. Read here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.10… UC Merced Political Science #CAPEUCMerced #politics