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Event Date: October 9th, 2024
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM PT

Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era

Register to join us on October 9 for an Authors Meet Critics panel on "Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era," by UC Berkeley Professors Paul Pierson and Eric Schickler. The authors will be joined in conversation by Stanford University's Francis Fukuyama and Didi Kuo. Mark Danner will moderate.

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Research Highlights

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Published July 29, 2014

When Companies Manage Cities

UC Berkeley political scientist Alison Post’s new book explores the consequences of privatizing urban infrastructure.

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Research Highlights

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Published July 22, 2014

Do You Trust the Police?

A team of UC Berkeley researchers are helping devise new methods for measuring levels of trust between local communities and the police.

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