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Can Madison’s Constitution Survive Our Polarized Politics?

Monday, May 2, 2016

The potential conflict between America’s modern, polarized political parties and the country’s two-century-old constitutional system was the focus of a two-day conference April 29-30 organized by IGS Affiliated Faculty members Paul Pierson and Eric Schickler, two of the country’s leading political scientists. The Hewlett...

A Conversation with Eric Schickler

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Eric Schickler is Professor and Department Chair of Political Science at UC Berkeley. His research interests include Congress, American political development, rational choice theory, political parties, and public opinion. Schickler is also an IGS Affiliated Faculty member. Here, he discusses his research and forthcoming...

Refugee children from Syria at a clinic in Ramtha, northern Jordan (9613477263)

Former Gardner Fellows Win Funding for Humanitarian Projects

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Former John Gardner Fellows Kati Hinman and Megan Majd have received Projects for Peace awards to help them fund international initiatives focused on conflict prevention, resolution and reconciliation. Megan will be traveling to Turkey to work with Syrian refugee women and children. Her project will help Syrian women and...

Game Changers Book Talk Examines Key California Elections

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Can voters truly change things by going to the polls? The answer is yes, according to the four authors of " Game Changers: Twelve Elections that Transformed California ," which won the California Historical Society Book Award in 2014. Steve Swatt , Susie Swatt , Jeff Raimundo , and Rebecca LaVally spoke at IGS about the...

A Conversation with Gabe Lenz

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Gabe Lenz is an Associate Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley. His research interests include elections, public opinion, political psychology and political economy. Lenz is member of the IGS Faculty Advisory Committee and a contributor to the IGS Poll. Here, he discusses his research and forthcoming work. What...

panelists at Annual review of presidency event

Panel Examines Obama Legacy, 2016 Election

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

President Obama will leave office with a legacy of significant accomplishments, but also with a vestige of disappointment among voters who once invested too much hope in his historic victory, according to panelists at the 35th annual IGS/Matsui Center Review of the Presidency . The panelists – Tom Mann of IGS, Julia Azari...

Do Political Party Stereotypes Fuel Partisanship?

Monday, April 11, 2016

Public perceptions of Democrats and Republicans are not very aligned with reality, says a new study by IGS Graduate Fellow Doug Ahler and social scientist Gaurav Sood. Ahler and Sood have published new research on people’s misperceptions of political party composition. By asking people to estimate the share of supporters...

Josh Kalla on Reducing Prejudice

Thursday, April 7, 2016

Josh Kalla had always been interested in politics as a child. Spring of his freshman year at Yale, he took a class about the use of field experiments in political and social science and was hooked. “The thought of running a rigorous experiment in political science, and learning something true about the world was just so...

Can the Supreme Court Save America from Plutocracy?

Thursday, March 17, 2016

UC Irvine law professor and election-law blogger Rick Hasen scheduled his IGS book talk long before President Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the timing of Hasen’s talk on March 16 turned out to be perfect. Just hours after Obama’s nomination of Garland, Hasen spoke about his new book,...

Upcoming Fellowship and Award Deadlines

Monday, February 29, 2016

Get your applications ready! Deadlines this week for several IGS fellowships and awards: Local Government Fellowship -- applications due February 29 Martin Award -- applications due March 1 John Gardner Fellowship -- applications due March 2

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