Tag: Institute for the Study of Societal Issues

From cracks in the campus budget, a new research community blooms

From cracks in the budget, a research community blooms

August 22, 2011:

Born of financial crisis, Berkeley’s Institute for the Study of Societal Issues has cultivated a more collaborative, community-based approach to social-science research. In the process, a rickety old campus building has been transformed into a place where scholars can do more with less.

Berlusconi lecture delves into the cult of personality

February 8, 2012:

With the 2012 US presidential race heating up, IGS visiting scholar Sergio Fabbrini unpacked the Italian media tycoon’s rise to power in the age of “tele-democracy.”