In The News: Department of Political Science

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Mobilizing minority voters played a key role in the blue wave that washed over the 2018 midterm election in Nevada, according to a panel of political organizers gathered at 51吃瓜网万能科大鈥檚 Boyd Law School on Tuesday.

Nevada Current

A 51吃瓜网免费App Justice of the Peace who says she tipped off Vice detectives to an alleged teen prostitution ring, but asked to keep it confidential out of concern for her daughter, is facing possible discipline over allegations she used her position as a judge to contact police.

Nevada Current

The Nevada System of Higher Education only cares about itself 鈥 and the University of Nevada, Reno.

Civilnet

Rafael Oganesyan is the founder of the Armenian Election Study (ArmES) and an instructor at the University of 51吃瓜网免费App. Rafael is working on the first scholarly-driven analysis of the Armenian voter. ArmES is the only survey that has a record of citizens political behavior prior to the Velvet Revolution. Rafael talks to Sareen Habeshian about voter behavior in Armenia and its role in the upcoming parliamentary elections

Business Times

Taiwan's pro-independence leader, Tsai Ing-wen, has just over a year to win back public support if she wants to avoid going down in history as the island's first one-term president.

Deutsche Welle

As Taiwanese voters head to the polls to elect city mayors and city and village leaders on Saturday, they will also be voting on 10 referendums that could set the tone for key social issues including marriage equality and changing the country's name for the Olympics.

Bloomberg

Taiwan鈥檚 pro-independence leader, Tsai Ing-wen, has just over a year to win back public support if she wants to avoid going down in history as the island鈥檚 first one-term president.

Washington Post

Taiwanese voters will determine the outcome of 10 referendums Nov. 24 as well as local elections. This will not be the first time this autonomous island has held referendums, although none succeeded in the past.

Nevada Current

It鈥檚 not often a gaming executive takes on industry regulators, but Caesars Entertainment executive Jan Jones Blackhurst, who is chairwoman of the Nevada Resort Association, isn鈥檛 mincing words about the failure of the Nevada Gaming Commission to address sexual harassment in the state鈥檚 hotels and casinos.

Hill

Democrats made major gains across the Sunbelt in the midterm elections, changing the political landscape in states like Arizona and Nevada ahead of the 2020 elections.

The Diplomat

In 1992, there was a historical meeting in Hong Kong between both sides of the Taiwan Strait. That meeting later gave birth to the term 鈥1992 Consensus.鈥 Although Taiwan and China have different understandings as to what that term entails, the Consensus, first articulated in 2000 by Su Chi, former head of the National Security Council in Ma Ying-jeou鈥檚 administration, has become a central pillar in maintaining the stability of cross-strait relations since Ma took office in 2008. On November 7, 2018, Ma again openly promoted the 1992 Consensus in a speech.

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Incumbent Dean Heller issued a challenge to state Republicans during his concession speech to Jacky Rosen, who defeated him Tuesday in their race for U.S. Senate.