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What Influences Voters' Allegiance?

Thursday, September 13, 2012
Just in time for the November elections, a new book by IGS affiliated faculty Gabriel Lenz examines the standard assumptions around voter behavior and representation. Follow the Leader: How Voters Respond to Politicians' Policies and Performance (University of Chicago Press) looks at the way voter preferences shift around...
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'Subversives' sheds light on Cal in the '60s

Monday, September 10, 2012
Over 50 years after the Free Speech Movement exploded at UC Berkeley, a new book, "Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power," by Seth Rosenfeld exposes the extent of the FBI's attempts to stop it. Rosenfeld spent 30 years researching the story—part of that time as a Jacobs Fellow at IGS—...
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"Permanent" Presidential Campaigns

Friday, September 7, 2012
Former IGS grad student Brendan J. Doherty has just published a new book: The Rise of the President's Permanent Campaign (University of Kansas Press). Branden graduated from UC Berkeley with a PhD in Political Science in 2006; he is now an associate professor of political science at the U.S. Naval Academy.
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New Book on Get-out-the-Vote

Thursday, August 16, 2012
Prof. Lisa García Bedolla, an affiliated IGS faculty member, has just published a new book: Mobilizing Inclusion: Transforming the Electorate through Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns . Exploring and comparing a wide variety of efforts targeting ethnoracial voters, Lisa García Bedolla and Melissa R. Michelson present a new...

Sekhon and Caughey Win Miller Prize

Monday, August 6, 2012
Congratulations to Jasjeet Sekhon and Devin Caughey, who are co-winners of the 2012 Miller Prize, awarded by the Society for Political Methodology for the best work appearing in Political Analysis in the previous year. Caughey and Sekhon were cited for their piece, "Elections and the Regression-Discontinuity Design:...

Nick Robinson Elected Head of LAUC

Tuesday, July 31, 2012
IGS Library Director Nick Robinson has been elected Vice President/President-Elect of the Librarians Association of the University of California (LAUC).
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IGS Survey on Open Primaries

Monday, July 9, 2012
As California held its first statewide open primary in June, an IGS survey showed that (as many who voted for the open primary system hoped) moderate candidates may prevail. “It looks like voters want to vote for more moderate candidates and will do so if the ballot provides the opportunity,” said Professor Gabriel Lenz ,...

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