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Vinod Aggarwal - Professor, Political Science
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The Berkeley Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC) brings together scholars from Berkeley and around the world to conduct interdisciplinary research on U.S.–China strategic competition and the changing political economy of the Asia-Pacific. Our work focuses on high-tech competition—including artificial intelligence, semiconductors, quantum technologies, and...
Social SciencesVinod Aggarwal - Professor, Political Science
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project examines how international trade and geopolitical pressures influence the development of technical standards in China. Technical standards establish requirements for product quality, safety, compatibility, testing, and production processes. Although standards are often presented as technical rules, they can also affect which firms and products are able to enter...
Social SciencesVinod Aggarwal - Professor, Political Science
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
For three decades after the Cold War, the United States championed open markets. Foreign companies were welcomed to invest, build, and hire, and capital moved across borders with little political friction. That consensus has unraveled. Politicians now compete to sound tough on foreign business, Congress introduces a growing stream of...
Social SciencesDavid Broockman - Professor, Political Science
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Scholars and commentators argue that Congress is broken because both parties' politicians take increasingly extreme positions on issues, failing to listen to voters. However, these claims are based on assuming that politicians of both parties don't adjust which proposals they make as voters' demands and the world change. In other...
David Broockman - Professor, Political Science
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Scholars and commentators have long taken for granted that electing minorities to local government matters, but we know surprisingly little about what changes when local governments become more diverse. Do cities spend more money, or do their spending priorities shift? Do the issues discussed in city council meetings changed? Or...
Jennifer Bussell - Professor, Political Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project explores the intersection of politics and clothing, across time and space. In particular, we are interested in the ways that clothing has been, and is, used to solve political "problems," including those related to economic development, geographic expansion, the projection of power, social movements, and individual or group...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesMarika Landau-Wells - Professor, Political Science
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Threat perception has always played a major role in foreign and domestic policy-making. From Covid to climate change to terrorism, policy-makers have made decisions about which potential threats to address and which to ignore. My book investigates how policy-makers in the U.S. and in other countries determine...
Social SciencesXiaobo Lü - Professor, Political Science
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
How do political parties mobilize citizens when elections are not the primary means of allocating political power? This project addresses this question by examining CCP party building from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Focusing on subnational variation, the project seeks to uncover the mechanisms underlying the CCP’s uneven organizational development...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesMichaela Mattes - Professor, Political Science
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
How do countries move from rivalry and conflict toward more cooperative relations? Why do some attempts at rapprochement succeed, while others stall or collapse? Consider a few examples. France and Germany transformed from “hereditary enemies” to close partners at the heart of European integration. The United States and Vietnam fought...
Social SciencesHunter Rendleman - Professor, Political Science
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Public service is under strain. Government agencies today face unprecedented political attacks and mounting challenges in attracting and retaining skilled workers. Yet the strength of the state depends on its people: without committed professionals, government cannot carry out its core functions. From public health to law, education, and regulation, a...
Social SciencesHunter Rendleman - Professor, Political Science
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Note: This project is co-mentored by Cailin Slattery, Assistant Professor in the Business and Public Policy Group at the Haas School of Business (cailin.slattery@berkeley.edu), and Hunter Rendleman, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science (hrendleman@berkeley.edu) Project Description Lawyers perform an indispensable role in modern democratic societies...
Social SciencesEric Schickler - Professor, Political Science
Status: Open Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
State parties regularly produce platforms that outline their positions on major issues facing the state and nation. These platforms have been used by scholars to understand the development of party polarization, changes in party positions on major issues, and dynamics of accountability and responsiveness in the U.S. political system. They...
Social SciencesScott Straus - Professor, Political Science
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
A consistent finding in genocide and mass atrocity literature is that prior episodes predict future onsets, yet the causal mechanisms explaining why violence recurs remain theoretically underspecified. This project addresses that gap by developing four interlocking hypotheses: (1) accountability absence, where impunity enables recurrence; (2) armed group persistence, where perpetrating...
Social SciencesSteven Vogel - Professor, Political Science
Status: Open Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
I will be focusing primarily on the GEN Global Citizens Forum project in Fall 2026. The Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS) in Tokyo and its partners around the world have launched the GEN Forum to inspire the younger generation and to address the most pressing social, economic, and environmental...
Social SciencesMartha Wilfahrt - Professor, Political Science
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
In an era of democratic instability and electoral autocracy, understanding when and where viable opposition parties emerge is critical. This question is particularly pressing in sub-Saharan Africa, where opposition parties vary in their capacity to contest elections. This project seeks to a) develop a descriptive dataset of the region’s...
Social Sciences