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Four experts on American politics assembled Thursday at the University of California, Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies to try to make sense of one of the wackiest presidential contests in United States history. How did we get here? Terri Bimes , assistant research director at IGS, a lecturer in political...

Berkeley — U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) announced today that she is donating more than two decades of her congressional papers to the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. She also will be the first speaker in the new Barbara Boxer Lecture Series at UC Berkeley, an annual event launching in 2017...

The IGS Poll is a research tool to measure public opinion about major California issues, providing a snapshot of voter opinion and producing data for further academic analysis. The Institute conducted a new poll of California registered voters from June 29 to July 18, measuring voter opinion on critical ballot measures...

IGS is pleased to welcome the Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) research network, a major program that aims to advance evidence-based policymaking in the United States andabroad, and to improve the quality of empirical research in the social sciences. EGAP was established in 2009 and previously housed at Columbia...