BCAD faculty affiliate Desmond Jagmohan was featured in The Hill
Desmond Jagmohan, who teaches political science at the University of California, Berkeley, also argued Tuberville’s comments were an attempt to “frame African Americans as a criminal element,” while appealing to racial fears among his base.
BCAD faculty affiliate Marika Landau-Wells’s book research on security and threat perception was featured in UC Berkeley News
Marika Landau-Wells was quoted in UC Berkeley News: In a period of major conflict, two primal fears can become pronounced, said Marika Landau-Wells, a UC Berkeley political scientist who studies how political leaders and the public perceive threats. One is fear of death. The other is fear of contamination. These fears colored the U.S. response to […]
BCAD faculty affiliate Gabe Lenz’s research on drivers of political polarization was featured in The New York Times
Gabe Lenz was quoted in The New York Times: There are very real — and substantial — policy differences separating the Democratic and Republican Parties. At the same time, what scholars variously describe as misperception and even delusion is driving up the intensity of contemporary partisan hostility. Gabriel Lenz — a political scientist at Berkeley and one […]
BCAD faculty affiliate Gabe Lenz’s research on elections and the economy was featured in The Atlantic
Economic recovery ahead of an election can sometimes spell victory: Gabriel Lenz, a political-science professor at UC Berkeley, pointed to Harry Truman as an example of an incumbent who managed to win after a mediocre economy picked up just ahead of the election, in his case in the fall of 1948. In general, Lenz noted, even unpopular presidents have seen their approval ratings rise as the economy improves ahead of elections.
BCAD faculty affiliate Gabriel Lenz’s book about how voters evaluate politicians was featured in The Economist
Gabriel Lenz, of the University of California, Berkeley, went so far as to write a book called “Follow the Leader?” about this phenomenon. Mr Lenz establishes that the folk view of elections, in which citizens form opinions and then vote for politicians who carry them to Washington, is misleading. Instead, they largely do the reverse. First, they pick a party and its leader. Then they adopt the party’s preferences.
BCAD faculty affiliate Gabriel Lenz’s research on political opinion formation was featured in The Washington Post
Gabe Lenz was quoted in The Washington Post: “Leader persuasion” is a well-documented phenomenon in political science. Before the 2000 election, for instance, more than two-thirds of Americans broadly supported giving workers the option to invest Social Security funds in the stock market. Then GOP nominee George W. Bush promoted the idea and Democrat Al Gore […]
BCAD faculty affiliate Amy Lerman was featured in The New York Times
When voters choose candidates for higher office thinking of crime, they often misunderstand where and how criminal justice decisions get made, said Amy Lerman, a political scientist at Berkeley. The federal government controls a small fraction of the whole picture. In the U.S., there are 51 prison systems, and about 18,000 police departments.
BCAD faculty affiliate Amy Lerman’s book about the government reputation crisis was featured in The Washington Post
In her new book, “Good Enough for Government Work,” Amy Lerman argues that the U.S. government faces a massive public reputation crisis. “The tendency of Americans to associate ‘public’ with ineffective, inefficient, and low-quality services,” she writes, “is a central feature of our modern political culture.”
BCAD faculty affiliate Amy Lerman’s policy feedback research was featured in The New York Times
Amy Lerman was quoted in The New York Times: “The wisdom from much of the political science research is that partisanship trumps everything,” said Amy Lerman, a political scientist at the University of California at Berkeley, and author of “Good Enough for Government Work.” “But one of the insights from the policy feedback literature in particular […]
BCAD faculty affiliate Amy Lerman’s book about criminal sentencing’s impact on perceptions of political efficacy was featured in The Washington Post
Experiences like arrest or incarceration also affect how people view the government. The social scientists Amy Lerman and Vesla Weaver, for instance, have shown that people who have been arrested or incarcerated tend to believe that they would always be viewed by their government as criminals, not full citizens.
BCAD faculty affiliate Cecilia Mo’s research about social exclusion and political partisanship was featured in The Washington Post
Similarly, Alexander Kuo, Neil Malhotra and Cecilia Mo found that Asian Americans view the Republican Party as hostile to Asian Americans. When Whites suggest Asian Americans do not belong in the United States, Asian Americans become more supportive of the Democratic Party and view the Republican Party in a negative light.
BCAD faculty affiliate Cecilia Mo’s research about the link between politics and sports was featured in USA TODAY
The links between politics and soccer in countries that care deepest about soccer have been suggested for years and were detailed in an extensive 2010 report by Cecilia Mo, Andrew Healy and Neil Malhotra of Stanford University.
BCAD faculty affiliate Cecilia Mo cross-national research about politics and soccer was featured in FiveThirtyEight
Cecilia Mo, a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley, cautioned that even being seen as the more civil or morally upright candidate can become a liability because there’s more room for disappointment.
BCAD faculty affiliate Paul Pierson’s book about the Republican Party was featured in The Washington Post
Hacker and Pierson — professors of political science at Yale and the University of California at Berkeley, respectively — make clear that they’re not claiming our politics are orchestrated by all-powerful plutocrats, like “Bond villains in a hidden lair inside a volcano.” But they offer a strong case that the Republican Party’s dependence on its top donors explains much of its trajectory in recent decades, culminating in the rise of Trump.
BCAD faculty affiliate Paul Pierson co-authored an op-ed in Foreign Affairs about the politics of the Senate filibuster
An op-ed co-authored by Paul Pierson was featured in Foreign Affairs: It is a measure of the chaos of Donald Trump’s presidency that just months after the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, nobody in Washington seems to remember it. Congressional Republicans transitioned seamlessly from backing the president as he inflicted gratuitous harm on the economy […]
BCAD faculty affiliate Paul Pierson was featured in Bay City News/Local News Matter
Paul Pierson was quoted in Local News Matter: Political scientists, economists, sociologists and historians among others are forming the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative to research the intersection of markets and government — a branch of research often referred to as political economy. “We need fresh thinking,” said Paul Pierson, a political science professor and the inaugural director […]
BCAD faculty affiliate Eric Schickler was featured in POLITICO
Eric Schickler was quoted in POLITICO: With the possibility that House Republicans could empower Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry to run the House temporarily amid its speakership crisis, another question loomed: Would the move put an acting speaker into the line of presidential succession? “Speaker pro tem, even if authorized to act as if he were […]
BCAD faculty affiliate Eric Schickler was featured in The Los Angeles Times
The figures underscore the “ambivalence and complication in how the public thinks about policing,” said Berkeley political science professor Eric Schickler, co-director of the Institute of Governmental Studies…
BCAD faculty affiliate Eric Schickler was featured in KQED News
Eric Schickler was quoted in KQED: Even here in California, President Joe Biden’s decision to bow out of his reelection campaign has transformed the 2024 election, according to a new poll from UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS). Eric Schickler, co-director of IGS, said Harris is benefitting from voter enthusiasm following Biden’s departure. “It says […]
BCAD faculty affiliate Robert Van Houweling was featured in POLITICO
Robert Van Houweling was quoted in POLITICO: But, are politicians actually two-faced? Or do they appeal to voters with divergent opinions some other way? After all, striking this delicate popularity balance is often crucial to ensuring reelection, particularly when issues arise that don’t just split along party lines, but divide the parties themselves. To explore these […]
