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UC Berkeley political scientist Steve Fish is helping to launch an initiative called Banguns in response to the Sandy Hook massacre. Those signing the initiative pledge to vote for, or financially support, only those elected officials who actively support effective new gun-control legislation
Tag: public policy
Voters act on performance, not policy, new book says
October 2, 2012:
Politicians may focus on policy issues in hopes of persuading voters, but a new book by a UC Berkeley political scientist says that’s not what matters most to voters.
Sept. 21 conference explores California’s fiscal crisis
September 13, 2012:
The Institute of Governmental Studies is sponsoring a Sept. 21 conference to explore “California’s Fiscal Crisis: Prospects for Deficit Reduction and Pension Reform in the Golden State.”
Media Advisory: Berkeley experts to assess court rulings on Affordable Care Act
June 27, 2012:
UC Berkeley experts will review the high court’s ACA actions in a special panel on Monday.
Public policy Dean Henry Brady promotes election polling to make more voices heard
May 15, 2012:
UCTV’s “Prime Vote” features Henry Brady’s video commentary, Don’t Hang Up! Why Voters Should Respond to Pollsters,”as he makes a case fo folks to stay on the line and make their opinions heard, especially in an electoral season increasingly dominated by rich donors and highly paid lobbyists.
Granholm hosts nightly political show, ‘The War Room’
February 13, 2012:
Former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm, a faculty member at Berkeley in law and public policy, now hosts a prime-time political show. “The War Room with Jennifer Granholm” airs Monday through Friday on Current TV.
Climate change and business research initiative gains traction
January 6, 2012:
Environmentalists and corporations don’t always see eye-to-eye on climate change. But the Climate Change and Business Research Initiative has shown that the two sides’ objectives can not only co-exist, but be mutually beneficial. The program — connecting leaders from business, government, nonprofits — is run jointly by the law schools at UC Berkeley and UCLA.
Big Ideas for Jobs Creation: A Q&A with Karen Chapple
November 7, 2011:
Thirteen big ideas for programs and policies to create badly needed jobs in the United States were unveiled Monday at a Washington, D.C., briefing.
New research points to lessons from Dutch cannabis system
September 13, 2011:
The Netherlands’s system of quasi-legal retail marijuana sales – steadily evolving since 1976 – may have modestly increased the number of marijuana users, but does not seem to have intensified their use of marijuana or the likelihood that they will move on to harder drugs, says a new UC Berkeley study in the journal Addiction.
Former Michigan Gov. Granholm to teach at UC Berkeley
January 24, 2011:
Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and her husband, leadership coach and author Daniel Mulhern, will teach interdisciplinary courses on campus starting this spring semester.
UC Berkeley students help improve Wikipedia’s credibility
November 5, 2010:
This semester, Wikipedia began collaborating with 10 public universities, including UC Berkeley, in a 17-month pilot program called the WikiProject Public Policy Initiative. The program aims to improve the quality and curriculum of Wikipedia pages about public policy issues by having students and professors create and update content as part of their course work.
Congresswoman Doris Matsui visits campus and its Matsui programs
November 1, 2010:
On Oct. 29, Congresswoman Doris Matsui came to the campus for a first-hand look at the programs at Berkeley’s Robert T. Matsui Center on Politics and Public Service, and to visit The Bancroft Library, which houses the collection of papers donated by her late husband, Congressman Robert Matsui of Sacramento.
