BCAD faculty affiliate Robert Van Houweling’s research on political positioning was featured in Vox
Rob Van Houweling was quoted in Vox: Campaign promises are very successful at tying politicians’ hands, and signing pledges for outside groups — such as a promise not to raise taxes — is the most successful of all, two political scientists at Stanford, Michael Tomz and Robert Van Houweling found in research on political positioning published in 2012. […]
BCAD faculty affiliate Robert Van Houweling was featured in UC Berkeley 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 the second-most-populous state, Texas. Six of the 16 most-populous states will be among the nine to hold primaries that day, meaning 28.75 percent of the U.S. population will have a […]
BCAD faculty affiliate Omar Wasow’s research on protest movements was featured in The New York Times
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 spread is the “ovation model,” said Omar Wasow, a political science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies how protest movements can affect politics… “The conflict there then […]
BCAD faculty affiliate Omar Wasow was featured in an interview by National Public Radio
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 generational divide? For some insight, we called Omar Wasow. He’s an assistant professor in the political science department at the University of California, Berkeley. We started on the question of […]
BCAD faculty affiliate Omar Wasow’s social movements research was featured in Al Jazeera
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 for the Democratic Party,” said Omar Wasow, assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. “These protests accelerate that generation gap,” Wasow told Al Jazeera…Wasow, who studied […]
BCAD faculty affiliate Omar Wasow’s research on public perceptions of violent protests was featured in The New Yorker
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 protest movements and their effects on politics and elections… I would say that nonviolent protests can be very effective if they are able to get media attention, and that there […]
BCAD faculty affiliate Omar Wasow was featured in CNN
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 to their status or economic well-being, one scholar says. Omar Wasow is one of the leading voices on race in America.
BCAD affiliate Hunter Rendleman research on political participation of women was featured in FiveThirtyEight
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 its own “Year of the Woman.” But now that the 2022 primaries are long over, we can say that any signs that Republican women would continue to gain on their […]
BCAD faculty affiliate Stephanie Zonszein’s research about pandemic-era unemployment links to hate crimes was featured in Penn Today
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 young male individuals, and those are exactly the type of people who are most likely to be hit by unemployment related to tourism and transportation, the sectors that were most […]
BCAD faculty affiliate Stephanie Zonszein’s research about voter perceptions of noncitizen voting was featured in University of Florida News
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 for this principle often hinges on the perception of who will benefit. The findings shed light on a hotly debated topic of noncitizen voting rights in the United States. Looking […]
BCAD faculty affiliate Cecilia Mo’s research about the influences of politician wage increases was featured in POLITICO
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 2016 finding that in states where governors earn more money, the minimum wage tends to be higher and corporations tend to contribute a higher share of overall state tax revenue.
BCAD affiliate Professor Gabriel Lenz’s research on the economy and elections was featured in The Atlantic
A strong economy could work in the president’s favor, but only if consumer attitudes stay positive too.
BCAD faculty affiliate Eric Schickler was featured in The New York Times
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 year, a quarter, $115.4 million, has come from the securities and investment industry, the financial core of the Republican establishment. In 2016, this industry effectively shunned Trump, giving him a […]
BCAD director and faculty affiliate David Broockman’s research on political advertising was featured in POLITICO
A study of more than 600 political ads found there’s no way to predict what makes one effective.
BCAD affiliate Sean Gailmard was featured in POLITICO
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 May
BCAD faculty affiliate Robert Van Houweling was quoted in UC Berkeley News
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 arcane workings of the filibuster pose a threat, too, because it increasingly is being used to block majority rule. Most often, Republicans are using it to freeze movement on popular […]
BCAD affiliate Hunter Rendleman research on political representation was featured in FiveThirtyEight
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 this so-called “descriptive representation” increases Americans’ trust in politicians and engagement with politics. But in the U.S., the percentage of people of color running for office lags far behind their share of the population (41 […]
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