48 faculty and 5 courses in Government at University of California, Los Angeles.
- Stuart Soroka, Professor h-index 55
Es on political communication, political behavior and political psychology. He has been especially interested in negativity (and positivity) in news coverage; in the ways in which media succeed (or fail) to inform the public about policy is
Notable: “Good News and Bad News: Asymmetric Responses to Economic Information” (2006) · 853 citations
- Daniel Treisman, Distinguished Professor h-index 47
Notable: “The causes of corruption: a cross-national study” (2000) · 3,921 citations
- Michael Thies, Associate Professor h-index 42
Notable: “Keeping Tabs on Partners: The Logic of Delegation in Coalition Governments” (2001) · 432 citations
- Anthony Pagden, Distinguished Professor h-index 35
Notable: “The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology” (1983) · 760 citations
- Lynn Vavreck, Professor h-index 32
Notable: “The 2006 Cooperative Congressional Election Study” (2008) · 381 citations
- Daniel Posner, Professor h-index 31
Es on ethnic politics, research design, distributive politics and the political economy of development in Africa. His most recent co-authored book, Coethnicity: Diversity and the Dilemmas of Collective Action (Russell Sage, 2009) employs ex
Notable: “Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision?” (2007) · 1,328 citations
- Matt A. Barreto, Professor of Political Science and Chicana/o Studies h-index 31
Notable: “Xenophobia in the time of pandemic: othering, anti-Asian attitudes, and COVID-19” (2020) · 414 citations
- Jeffrey B. Lewis, Professor h-index 29
Notable: “poLCA: AnRPackage for Polytomous Variable Latent Class Analysis” (2011) · 1,501 citations
- Gary M. Segura, Professor of Public Policy h-index 29
Es on issues of political representation and social cleavages, the domestic politics of wartime public opinion and the politics of America’s growing Latino minority. Professor Segura has published more than 55 articles and chapters, and he
Notable: “War, Casualties, and Public Opinion” (1998) · 424 citations
- Susanne Lohmann, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy h-index 27
Notable: “The Dynamics of Informational Cascades: The Monday Demonstrations in Leipzig, East Germany, 1989–91” (1994) · 1,050 citations
- Michael Ross, Professor and Vice Chair for Undergraduate Studies h-index 25
Notable: “Does Oil Hinder Democracy?” (2001) · 3,342 citations
- Efren Perez, Professor h-index 25
Notable: “Explicit Evidence on the Import of Implicit Attitudes: The IAT and Immigration Policy Judgments” (2010) · 270 citations
- Megan Mullin, Faculty Director, Luskin Center for Innovation; Professor h-index 21
Megan Mullin Faculty Director, Luskin Center for Innovation; Professor of Public Policy Courtesy Faculty
Notable: “Turning Personal Experience into Political Attitudes: The Effect of Local Weather on Americans’ Perceptions about Global Warming” (2012) · 485 citations
- Chad Hazlett, Professor of Political Science and Statistics h-index 20
Notable: “Making Sense of Sensitivity: Extending Omitted Variable Bias” (2019) · 974 citations
- Graeme Blair, Professor h-index 19
Notable: “Statistical Analysis of List Experiments” (2012) · 636 citations
- Natalie Masuoka, Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies h-index 18
Racial and ethnic politics, immigration, political behavior and public opinion. Her first book, The Politics of Belonging: Race, Public Opinion and Immigration (co-authored with Jane Junn) examines how and why whites, blacks, Asian
Notable: “Together They Become One: Examining the Predictors of Panethnic Group Consciousness Among Asian Americans and Latinos*” (2006) · 317 citations
- Michael Lofchie, Professor h-index 18
Es on the politics of economic reform in Africa. His most recent book is The Political Economy of Tanzania: Decline and Recovery (Penn Press, 2014), which focuses on that nation’s five decades of postcolonial development — exami
Notable: “The Politics of Africa's Economic Stagnation” (1986) · 252 citations
- Barry O'Neill, Professor h-index 17
Notable: “A problem of rights arbitration from the Talmud” (1982) · 831 citations
- Kathleen Bawn, Professor h-index 16
Notable: “A Theory of Political Parties: Groups, Policy Demands and Nominations in American Politics” (2012) · 848 citations
- Davide Panagia, Professor and Chair h-index 16
Es on the role of aesthetics in the study of political culture, looking particularly to how experiences of diversity, equality, and participation in multicultural societies shape public values and senses of shared belongings. He brings expe
Notable: “Ten Theses on Politics” (2001) · 711 citations
- Chris Tausanovitch, Professor h-index 16
Notable: “Representation in Municipal Government” (2014) · 443 citations
- Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld, Associate Professor h-index 16
Notable: “Spontaneous Collective Action: Peripheral Mobilization During the Arab Spring” (2017) · 345 citations
- Leslie Johns, Professor h-index 16
Es upon the use of international organizations to resolve interstate disputes. Her work has appeared in journals such as International Organization and Journal of Conflict Resolution. Prof. Johns is also the author of Strengthening Internat
Notable: “Under One Roof: Supply Chains and the Protection of Foreign Investment” (2016) · 189 citations
- Arthur Stein, Distinguished Research Professor h-index 15
Notable: “Coordination and collaboration: regimes in an anarchic world” (1982) · 672 citations
- Karen Orren, Distinguished Professor h-index 15
Notable: “Belated Feudalism: Labor, the Law, and Liberal Development in the United States.” (1993) · 130 citations
- Darin Christensen, Associate Professor h-index 15
Notable: “Defunding Dissent: Restrictions on Aid to NGOs” (2013) · 180 citations
- Dov Waxman, Professor of Israel Studies h-index 15
Es on the conflict over Israel-Palestine, Israeli politics and foreign policy, U.S.-Israel relations, Jewish politics, and contemporary antisemitism. He is the author of four books: The Pursuit of Peace and The Crisis of Israeli Identity: D
Notable: “Ideological Change and Israel's Disengagement from Gaza” (2008) · 50 citations
- Michael Chwe, Professor h-index 14
Jury decision making and television advertising. Professor Chwe has served on the faculty of the University of Chicago and New York University. He teaches courses on game theory for graduates and undergraduates. Education Northweste
Notable: “Farsighted Coalitional Stability” (1994) · 618 citations
- Richard L. Hasen, Professor of Law and Political Science h-index 14
Notable: “Lobbying, Rent Seeking, and the Constitution” (2011) · 154 citations
- Margaret Peters, Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Studies h-index 13
Es broadly on international political economy with a special focus on the politics of migration. Her book, Trading Barriers: Immigration and the Remaking of Globalization (2017, Princeton University Press) examines the relationship between
Notable: “Open Trade, Closed Borders Immigration in the Era of Globalization” (2014) · 148 citations
- Jonathan Homola, Associate Professor h-index 13
I) xenophobia and (support for right-wing) extremism, and ii) gender and politics. Jonathan’s regional areas of expertise are Western democracies and Eastern Europe. His research has been published in outlets such as the American Pol
Notable: “Legacies of the Third Reich: Concentration Camps and Out-group Intolerance” (2020) · 126 citations
- Veronica Herrera, Associate Professor h-index 11
Veronica Herrera Associate Professor, Luskin School of Public Affairs, by courtesy Department Faculty
Notable: “Reconciling global aspirations and local realities: Challenges facing the Sustainable Development Goals for water and sanitation” (2019) · 236 citations
- Giulia Sissa, Distinguished Professor h-index 9
Notable: “Filosofías del género: Platón, Aristóteles y la diferencia sexual” (1991) · 18 citations
- Connor Huff, Assistant Professor h-index 8
Notable: ““Who are these people?” Evaluating the demographic characteristics and political preferences of MTurk survey respondents” (2015) · 924 citations
- Georgia Kernell, Associate Professor h-index 8
Notable: “Institutional Context, Cognitive Resources and Party Attachments Across Democracies” (2005) · 134 citations
- Eric Min, Associate Professor h-index 7
Notable: “The Credibility of Public and Private Signals: A Document-Based Approach” (2018) · 94 citations
- Julia Payson, Assistant Professor h-index 7
Notable: “Cities in the Statehouse: How Local Governments Use Lobbyists to Secure State Funding” (2019) · 87 citations
- Salma Mousa, Assistant Professor h-index 6
Notable: “Building social cohesion between Christians and Muslims through soccer in post-ISIS Iraq” (2020) · 402 citations
- Lorrie Frasure, Professor h-index 6
Notable: “Choosing the Velvet Glove: Women Voters, Ambivalent Sexism, and Vote Choice in 2016” (2018) · 116 citations
- Daniel Thompson, Assistant Professor h-index 5
Notable: “Who Punishes Extremist Nominees? Candidate Ideology and Turning Out the Base in US Elections” (2018) · 104 citations
- Blake Emerson, Professor of Law h-index 5
Notable: “The Democratic Reconstruction of the Hegelian State in American Progressive Political Thought” (2015) · 21 citations
- Luwei Ying, Assistant Professor h-index 4
Notable: “Topics, Concepts, and Measurement: A Crowdsourced Procedure for Validating Topics as Measures” (2021) · 61 citations
- Tejas Parasher, Assistant Professor h-index 4
Lie in modern political and legal philosophy, particularly around questions of empire, political representation, and statehood. He is also interested in the fields of comparative and global political thought. His current research explores t
Notable: “Federalism, Representation, and Direct Democracy in 1920s India” (2021) · 20 citations
- Natasha Piano, Assistant Professor h-index 3
Notable: “Revisiting Democratic Elitism: The Italian School of Elitism, American Political Science, and the Problem of Plutocracy” (2019) · 46 citations
- Chris Zepeda-Millan, Associate Professor
- Mark A. Peterson, Professor
- Michelle Torres, Assistant Professor
In the fields of political methodology and political behavior. My current research agenda focuses on the ways in which we can make statistical and computer science methods accessible to political science. I am interested in developing a
- Scott C. James, Associate Professor
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.