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  • Political Science at Cal
    • Background
    • 150 Years of Women at Berkeley
      • Jessica Blanche Peixotto
      • Hanna Pitkin
      • Sadako Ogata
      • Ruth Berins Collier
      • Judy Gruber
      • Wendy Brown
      • Pearl Alice Marsh
      • Kathleen Thelen
    • Travers Conference Archives
      • Can California meet the challenges of the 21st Century?
      • The Governmental Response to Covid-19: Lessons and Preparing for the Next Pandemic
      • Reforming Congress?
      • Is America Breaking Apart?
      • Parties and Partisanship in the Era of Twitter and Trump
      • Changing Washington? Prospects for Republican Rule Under Donald Trump
      • Election 2016
      • Money and Politics
      • Accountability in Higher Education
      • California's Energy Future
      • Financing California: Strategies for Fiscal Housekeeping
      • Managing the Delta: The Governance Challenges of Adaptive Management
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      • Research Workshop in Quantitative Modeling
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