POL SCI 141E · POLISCI 141EElectoral Politics: Elections, Media, and Strategy
Political Science · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Designed for juniors/seniors. Analysis of elections and media, including game-theoretic analysis, Downs spatial model of elections, valence characteristics in elections, campaign finance, endogeneity problems in social sciences, liberal bias in media, industrial organization of news industry, and effects of media on voter decisions.
May be applied toward Field III or V. P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Spring 2026
- Winter 2027
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 30.
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POL SCI 141E
- POL SCI 30Politics and Strategy
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
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