September 16, 2025, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Join us at the Institute of Governmental Studies LibraryonTuesday, September 16th at 4:00pm for "California Democracy in Peril?: Voting Rights, Redistricting, and Accountability in the Trump Era - IGS Poll Results Presentation and Panel." This event will feature new IGS Poll data, conducted in partnership with the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, followed by a moderated discussion on the results and the impacts it will have on the upcoming referendum. A panel of experts will discuss the many challenges facing democracy in California in the 2020s. With rising polarization nationally, the president’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles, ICE raids across the state, and recent challenges to voting rights, do the state’s voters believe democracy is in crisis? What reforms would voters like to see in order to have greater trust in our political institutions? What do voters think about the upcoming referendum on redistricting?
Panelists:
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Eric Shickler, Jeffrey & Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Institute of Governmental Studies; UC Berkeley
- Angelica Salceda, Director, of the Democracy, Speech, & Technology Project; ACLU
- Angelo Ancheta, Senior Research and Policy Counsel; Demos
- Catherine E. Lhamon, Executive Director of Edley Center on Law and Democracy, UC Berkeley
Moderator:
- Scott Shafer, Senior Editor, Politics and Government and Co-host of Political Breakdown, KQED
The event will be followed by a light reception.
This event is sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Studies.