This bimonthly seminar involves California public officials and politicians in an ongoing examination of policy issues facing the state. Speakers include state legislators, key political operatives, and scholars of California politics. Topic range from public policy to the operation of political institutions. Campaigns and Elections Campaign managers, consultants, pollsters, fundraisers, and grassroots technicians discuss the tactics, strategy, and mechanics of political campaigns. Guests review past campaigns and current issues with emphasis on practical politics.
Guests come from the world of practical politics, government, academia, and the media.
The goal of this seminar is to bring to Berkeley scholars who are doing the most interesting and innovative work in the emerging literatures on American political development and historical institutionalism. This seminar meets about eight times a year and is co-sponsored by IGS, the Political Science Department and the Haas School of Business. Guests are leading academic political research theorist who use formal models and rational choice theory as an approach to understanding legislative institutions and political behaviors. The UK Seminar meets about six times a year and provides interested faculty and graduate students the opportunity to monitor current developments in the United Kingdom's politics and government. Topics of interest include party realignment, electoral strategy, freedom of the press, higher education, and patterns of social and cultural change.