IGS Directory Jack Citrin is cited in a San Francisco Chronicle article about Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado abandoning his gubernatorial campaign.
Ethan Rarick is quoted in a Contra Costa Times article on the retirement of Rep. George Miller, D-Martinez. Rarick heads the Matsui Center at IGS.
"How patronage politics ate the Port Authority," an article in the Washington Post by Phil Rocco and Chloe Thurston (current and former IGS grad students), explains the patronage system behind the current scandal surrounding New Jersey Gov. Chis Christie.
Former Chief Justice Ron George, the subject of Chief: The Quest for Justice in California, was interviewed December 12 on KQED Radio's Forum program.
California Lawyer has published an excerpt from Chief: The Quest for Justice in California. Released last month by Berkeley Public Policy Press, the new book is an oral history of Chief Justice Ronald M. George conducted in 2011 by IGS oral historian Laura McCreery.
"Funding Immigrant Organizations: Suburban Free-riding and Local Civic Presence," by Els de Graauw and IGS Affiliated Faculty member Irene Bloemraad, was published in the American Journal of Sociology 119(1).
Max Neiman is quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about elections results in two California cities undergoing bankruptcy reorganization. Neiman is senior resident scholar at IGS.
Matsui Center Director Ethan Rarick, author of a biography of Pat Brown, is mentioned in a SF Business Times article about a new UC Berkeley Library grant to organize the Pat Brown archive.
The L.A. Times today wrote about the release of the new book Chief: The Quest for Justice in California, the oral history of Chief Justice Ronald M. George conducted by Laura McCreery, who directs the California Supreme Court Oral History Project at IGS. Chief is published by IGS.
Paul Pierson, IGS affiliated faculty member, will be a featured speaker at next week's Uncharted: The Berkeley Festival of Ideas.