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Sarah Anzia was quoted in The Atlantic: To be sure, the recent literature doesn’t show that voters treat male and female candidates identically. As the

David Broockman was quoted in The New York Times: A new study available in preprint from Joshua Kalla, an assistant professor of political science at Yale,

Gabriel Lenz, a political science professor at UC Berkeley, said there is a flip side, in that Trump has had political success in suggesting to

Eric Schickler was quoted in the BBC: Dianne Feinstein’s death could throw the race to replace her into chaos. A senate race featuring high-profile, ambitious Democrats

Cecilia Mo was quoted in Science: Researchers had theorized that national service programs could improve dismally low voting participation rates among young adults. But the analysis

An op-ed by Paul Pierson was featured in The New York Times: To many Americans, the 2024 election is an unwelcome contest between the felonious

In a recent essay discussing Booker T. Washington’s “ethics of ambivalence,” for example, political scientist Desmond Jagmohan argues that although “we value truthfulness and sincerity

“What our study shows,” study authors Alyssa Mooney, Alissa Skog, and Amy Lerman told me in an email exchange, “is that automating record clearance alone

David Broockman was quoted in The New York Times: As Trump rose to the presidency, one explanation that swept political science was the power of

The filibuster is in trouble. President Joe Biden has come out in favor of reforming it, and Democrats in the Senate are weighing alternatives. But

UC Berkeley political science Professor Desmond Jagmohan said there’s a pattern of politicians — on both the left and right in the Bay Area —

Sean Gailmard was quoted in Mission Local: The San Francisco general election on March 5 drew in a stunning amount of cash: Over $11 million raised on

Sean Gailmard, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, describes how many universities outside these red states see academics leaving due to political reasons

David Broockman was quoted in Vox: Groups that want to defeat President Donald Trump have already spent a decent chunk of money making and airing

David Broockman was quoted in The New York Times: In 2017, David Broockman, Gregory Ferenstein and I conducted the first large-scale survey of the founders

Public education is one of America’s hottest political flashpoints, yet, counterintuitively, making it more political will help lower the temperature.

In late July, the House passed a bill that would shore up endangered pensions for millions of private-sector retirees and workers in trucking, mining and

In an analysis of the complexity of the current Democratic predicament, Sarah Anzia, a professor of public policy and political science at Berkeley, addressed the

"Young people, even with their higher turnout in 2018, were far less likely to participate than those 40 and up,” said Sarah Anzia, a political