Congratulations to Professor Thad Dunning, whose co-authored book Brokers, Voters and Clientelism: The Puzzle of Distributive Politics has been selected as both the recipient of the APSA Luebbert Prize for the best book of 2013 in comparative politics and the 2013 Best Book Award from APSA's Comparative Democratization Section.
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Many congratulations to Professor and former Executive Vice-Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer, who was recently elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Congratulations to Daniel A. Tuchler and Shelby H. Nacino who were selected to receive the inaugural William "Sandy" K. Muir Student Leadership Endowment Awards for 2014. This endowed prize is named in honor of Professor Muir and given to deserving Berkeley undergraduate students who have demonstrated a high level of academic distinction and a strong commitment to being leaders in campus, community, or public affairs.
Professor David Collier at the University of California, Berkeley, is this year’s winner of the Johan Skytte Prize in political science. He has been awarded the prize for ‘his contributions to concept development in political science and the development of methods for qualitative analysis’. The Johan Skytte Prize is one of the greatest and most prestigious awards in political science. The Johan Skytte Prize will...
On May 10-11, UC Berkeley hosted a delegation of PhD candidates from the department of Government from Uppsala University in Sweden. Participants from Uppsala included Lars Wikman, Pernilla Thunberger, Markus Holdo, Nadja Grees, Malin Holm, and Lina Eriksson. Participants from Berkeley included Doug Ahler, Christopher Chambers-Ju, Jason Klocek, Emily Hertz, Phil Rocco, and Geoffery Upton.
"Symposium: Fieldwork in Political Science: Encountering Challenges and Crafting Solutions" published in the April 2014 (47.2) issue of PS: Political Science and Politics. SYMPOSIUM CONTRIBUTORS Christopher Chambers-Ju is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the electoral participation of teachers’ unions in developing democracies; how the teaching profession can become politicized, and how it is politically...
Congratulations to UC Berkeley Political Science alum Zarko Perovic who was selected as a Rhodes Scholar. Read the full story here: http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/11/25/2012-berkeley-alum-named-rhod…
Professor Leo Arriola is the recipient of a best book award from the African Politics Conference Group (APCG), an organized section of APSA and the African Studies Association. More information at the link below. http://africanpoliticsgroup.org/index.php/2013/11/congratulations-to-th…
Professor Gabe Lenz is the recipient of the 2013 Emerging Scholar Award, for the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section of the American Political Science Association. This award is presented to the top scholar in the field within ten years of his or her doctorate.
Affiliated faculty member Lisa García Bedolla received the 2013 Ralph Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association for her book, co-authored with Melissa R. Michelson, Mobilizing Inclusion: Transforming the Electorate through Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012). The Ralph Bunche Award is given annually for the best scholarly work in political science that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism.