BCAD in the News

Robert Van Houweling was quoted in UC Berkeley News: California, the most-populous state, has moved its presidential primary up to Super Tuesday, March 3. So has

Omar Wasow was quoted in The New York Times: Protests, like many forms of group behavior, can be contagious. One way to understand how protest movements

Omar Wasow was quoted in National Public Radio: Meanwhile, older Americans are more likely to approve of Biden’s longtime support for Israel. So what’s driving this

Omar Wasow was quoted in Al Jazeera: “We’re already seeing evidence of a generation divide on Israel, and that is going to be a long-term issue

Omar Wasow was quoted in The New Yorker: I spoke by phone, on Friday afternoon, with Omar Wasow, a professor of politics at Princeton, who studies

There could be another reason why so many White Americans now accept marriage between Black and White people: They don’t perceive it as a threat

Hunter Rendleman was featured in FiveThirtyEight: In the last midterm elections, Democratic women won a historic number of congressional races. Two years later, the GOP had

Stephanie Zonszein was quoted in Penn Today: “We know from the literature on hate crimes and criminal behavior in general that the typical perpetrators are generally

Stephanie Zonszein was featured in University of Florida News: The right to vote is a cornerstone of electoral democracy, but a new study suggests that support

Renee Bowen, an economist at Stanford, and Cecilia Mo, a political scientist who is now at the University of California, Berkeley, released a paper in

A strong economy could work in the president’s favor, but only if consumer attitudes stay positive too.

Eric Schickler was quoted in The New York Times: According to OpenSecrets, of the $472.8 million Trump and allied PACs have raised through the middle of this

A study of more than 600 political ads found there’s no way to predict what makes one effective.

Sean Gailmard, a political science professor at the University of California, Berkeley and close observer of the recall, noted a shift in Newsom’s messaging since

Robert Van Houweling was quoted in UC Berkeley News: While the insurrection posed an existential threat to American democracy, Berkeley political and legal scholars say the

Hunter Rendleman was quoted in FiveThirtyEight: When people of color see politicians who look like them, it can have profound effects. Political science research suggests that