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Political Science in the News

Partnership between Jack Citrin Center for Public Opinion Research and Politico

Published by Serena Groen | Apr 15, 2025

POLITICO California and UC Berkeley’s Citrin Center for Public Opinion Research teamed up on the first-of-its kind poll, surveying political and policy influencers as well as voters on the top issues driving the debate in our state.

Here are some articles from the recent poll:

How Barbara Lee wins — or loses

Kamala Harris for governor? Poll shows how California voters feel about the idea.

Playbook: The Great Fightback?

Exclusive: Poll shows voters are wary of AI’s upsides

Bernie returns to a bruised progressive movement

Californians’ vote of no confidence

The X-odus that wasn’t

Newsom goes to the mat on Trump’s tariffs

Donald Trump vs. Kilmar Abrego Garcia

The Pentagon’s rogue innovation era might be over

The tech world responds (sort of) to Newsom’s tariff suit

Biz holds Bonta at arm’s length

Trump has California’s high-speed rail in his sights, but so do Democrats

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Please join us for a conversation with Mullissa Willette, a first-term CalPERS Board of Administration member. Willette will offer an insider's perspective on how the nation's largest public pension fund is governed and the key issues shaping its future.

Oct 23, 2026

Indispensable but Invisible: Legal Expertise and Juridical Capital in the Governance of Late Imperial China | Lecture by Li Chen

During the Qing period (1644–1912), late imperial China was in theory governed by approximately two thousand local administrators who were appointed for their mastery of the Confucian classics rather than for their administrative or legal expertise. How did these scholar-officials actually carry out the daily tasks of local governance, including judicial administration? Based on a forthcoming monograph, this talk analyzes the training and roles of the thousands of legal specialists who advised local officials behind the scenes and handled most of the judicial and other substantive administrative work on their behalf. Despite their important functions in local governance, these legal..

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Join the Citrin Center and the Institute for Governmental Studies at the Social Sciences Matrix on Friday, October 30th at 3:30pm for "California and the 2026 Midterms: A Pre-Election Roundtable on the State of the Electorate". This panel event will feature a presentation by Berkeley IGS Poll Director Mark DiCamillo on the latest round of statewide election-related data, conducted in partnership with the LA Times, followed by a moderated discussion with a panel of experts on the results. The discussion will cover the race for governor between Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton, prominent statewide ballot measures including Proposition 39 (Voter..

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The Rise and Fall of Tunisian Democracy: Populism, Polarization, and the Perils of Power-Sharing

The Rise and Fall of Tunisian Democracy: Populism, Polarization, and the Perils of Power-Sharing (Cambridge University Press, 2026) examines the politics of Tunisia after the Arab Spring. Tunisia emerged as the one success story to transition to democracy, winning a Nobel Peace Prize in 2015 for its focus on inclusion and power-sharing. How, then, did its democracy collapse in 2021?

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