Mark Baldassare is a nonresident scholar at Carnegie California. He is also a senior fellow at the Bedrosian Center on Governance in the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy at USC. He is statewide survey director and the Miller Chair in public policy at the Public Policy Institute ofCalifornia. For the previous 15 years, he also served as president and CEO of PPIC. Prior to that, he served as PPIC’s director of research and senior fellow. He is a leading expert on public opinion and survey methodology, and has directed the PPIC Statewide Survey since its founding in 1998. He is an...
Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
Martin Bisgaard is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University, Denmark. He studies the electoral link between voters and politicians and his current project deals with how politicians think about voter behavior. His work has appeared in American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science and Journal of Politics. Martin will usually be around IGS in January and August.
Kellie Hogue is a Research Associate of the Institute of Governmental Studies, mentoring Jo Freeman Women in Politics Cal-in-Sac Fellows conducting research on public policies that affect women, and a Senior Researcher at California Research Bureau, where she effectively combines qualitative and quantitative approaches with data science tools and methods to provide optimal research and information-based solutions for a legislative and gubernatorial clientele.
Her current research projects, in partnership with the California Commission on the Status of Women and...
Tonya D. Lindsey is a senior researcher at the California Research Bureau where she uses her expertise in research methods to analyze a wide variety of policy questions at the request of legislators, the governor’s office, and their staff. Her publications include analyses of inequity, open government principles, race in California prisons for men, and mass media ownership among other policy-related topics. She is a lecturer in the sociology department at California State University, Chico where she teaches social statistics, research methods, and public sociology. Her...
Thomas E. Mann is Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution and Resident Scholar, Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He held the W. Averell Harriman Chair at Brookings between 1991 and 2014 and was Director of Governmental Studies between 1987 and 1999. Before that, Mann was executive director of the American Political Science Association.
Born on September 10, 1944, in Milwaukee, he earned his B.A. in political science at the University of Florida and his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. He first came to...
Professor Kathleen Morris is the founder of California Public Counsel, a private law firm specializing in representing public entities. She taught for over a decade at Golden Gate University Law School, where she was a tenured professor, and has also taught at Yale, U.C. Berkeley, U.C. Davis, and Rutgers law schools. In 2006, she co-founded (with Dean Heather Gerken) Yale Law School’s “San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project,” which flourishes today.
Professor Morris is a proud graduate of U.C. Berkeley Law School (J.D....
Dr. Smith holds the appointment of Distinguished Scholar in Residence with the Institute for Governmental Studies at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) where he has been responsible for the Harold Smith Seminar Series on Defense and National Security and is a major participant in its successor series.
In 1960, after receiving the PhD in nuclear engineering from MIT, he joined the faculty of UCB where he published extensively on the optimal control of nuclear systems and on the interaction of radiation with surfaces. He retired as professor and chairman of the Department...