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PIPE* Research Talk: Jennifer Merolla, UCRiverside

October 10, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Terrorism, Gender, and the 2016 Presidential Election


Jennifer Merolla, Professor, Political Science, University of California, Riverside, received her PhD in Political Science from Duke University, 2003. Prior to joining the University of California, Riverside, she served as Assistant Professor (2003-2009) and then Associate Professor of Political Science (2009-2015) at Claremont Graduate University.


Merolla’s research focuses on how the political environment shapes individual attitudes and behavior across many domains such as candidate evaluations during elections, immigration policy attitudes, foreign policy attitudes, and support for democratic values and institutions.  


The 2016 U.S. presidential election was unusual in many ways, including the fact that it featured Hillary Clinton as the first woman major party nominee and Donald Trump as the first modern day major party candidate without extensive political experience. It was also an election in which terrorism was more salient than it has been in recent U.S. presidential contests. These factors combine to offer the opportunity to evaluate the degree to which gender, experience, and a heightened context of terrorism shape candidate evaluations. Of particular interest are evaluations of the candidates’ leadership capacities given objective differences in their foreign policy experiences.




*Political Institutions and Political Economy (PIPE) Collaborative is a university-wide research endeavor jointly sponsored by the Price School’s Bedrosian Center and the Office of the Provost. This collaborative will include faculty and graduate students with common interests in various aspects of political institutions and political economy. The program will be designed to encourage research that crosses disciplinary boundaries.



  • Political institutions refers to systems of politics and government, or structures of voluntary cooperation that resolve collective action problems in society

  • Political economy most commonly refers to studies that draw upon economics, political science, and law to explain how political institutions, the political environment, and the economic system influence each other

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Date:
October 10, 2017
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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Website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pipe-research-talk-jennifer-merolla-ucriverside-tickets-38291066611

Venue

Verna and Peter Dauterive Hall
645 Exposition Boulevard, Rm. 302, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Los Angeles, CA 90089 US
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Organizer

Bedrosian Center on Governance and Office of the Provost
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Bedrosian Center