IGS Biennial Report Available

The Institute of Governmental Studies has released its 2006-2008 biennial report, which details and highlights the Institute's public activities, research, events, student projects, and other activities as a campus organized research unit. Click here for the full report.

IGS Annual Salon Dinner Web Album Now Online

Some of the photographs taken at the IGS Annual Salon Dinner on March 29, an event which featured MSNBC anchor and political commentator Chris Matthews, are now available in a web album for viewing. Click here to view the album.

Webcasts from "Proposition 13 at 30" Conference Now Available

Webcasts from the Proposition 13 conference co-sponsored by IGS on June 6 are now available online. This conference on the 30th anniversary of the passage of Proposition 13 examined the political, economic, and fiscal legacy of the law. Click here for webcast viewing options.

"The Voices of Tomorrow": A Film about IGS

IGS is proud to present a short film that showcases what we do and who we are. Learn how IGS is a place that combines the practical work of politics with the theoretical dynamism that will shape tomorrow's generation of national and state leaders. Click here.

"Democratic Politics in the European Parliament"

This recent book from Cambridge University Press, some of the research from which previously appeared in an IGS Working Paper co-authored by Simon Hix, Abdul Noury, and Gérard Roland, has won the Richard Fenno Prize from the Legislative Section of the American Political Science Association for 2008. Click here for the publisher's page link.

"California's New Political Geography"

This new book from the IGS Press offers an engaging perspective on recent developments in California's political geography. It discusses numerous recent statewide trends, including the population shifts that have contributed to California's emerging partisan divides. Click here for more details and information on ordering.

"Public Opinion and Constitutional Controversy"

This new book, edited by Nathaniel Persily, IGS Director Jack Citrin, and Patrick Egan, is the first all-inclusive, systematic study of how public opinion impacts the American judicial system and electoral politics. Some of the constitutional controversies that the book examines include desegregation, school prayer, abortion, the death penalty, affirmative action, gay rights, assisted suicide, and national security. [Oxford University Press, 2008, 376 pages. Publisher link here.]