Governance / Democracy

Research Interest

Irene Farah

Graduate Student
City & Regional Planning

Irene Farah is a PhD student in City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, interested in analyzing the structural inequities in the labor market. In particular, she studies street vendors in Mexico City and how their physical and political positions impact their health by analyzing their commuting behaviors and access to healthy food.

Janet Napolitano

Professor
Goldman School of Public Policy

Janet Napolitano is a Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. She served as the twentieth president of the University of California, from 2013 to 2020, and Secretary of Homeland Security from 2009 to 2013. She is a former two-term Governor of Arizona, a former Attorney General of Arizona, and a former U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona.

Shelley Liu

Assistant Professor
Goldman School of Public Policy

Shelley Liu is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on conflict and development in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on how governments develop the state after conflict, how citizens respond to development policies, and how access to education and information mediates the relationship between citizens and their government.

Ernesto Dal Bó

Professor
Haas School of Business

Ernesto Dal Bó is the Phillips Girgich Professor of Business and the Chair of the Business and Public Policy Academic Group at the Haas School of Business. His reserach focuses on a range of topics: political influence, social conflict, corruption, morality and social norms, state formation, the development of state capabilities, and the qualities and behavior of politicians and public servants.

Jason Wittenberg

Professor
Political Science

ason Wittenberg is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies religion and politics, ethnic conflict, historical legacies and elections, with recent work on antisemitism and democracy, in Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet region.

Martha Wilfahrt

Assistant Professor
Political Science

Martha Wilfahrt is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She studies African politics with a focus on redistributive politics, state-society relation and historical legacies. On-going projects include research on the long-run impact of precolonial statehood on contemporary governance in West Africa and work examining how colonialism impacted community development strategies.

Rachel Stern

Professor
Law

Rachel Stern is a Professor of Law and Political Science and currently holds the Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She studies law in mainland China and Hong Kong, especially the relationship between legal institution building, political space, and professionalization.

Andrew Little

Assistant Professor
Political Science

Andrew Little is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies authoritarian politics, communication and information manipulation, and conflict, exploring the causes and political consequences of "nonstandard" belief formation with the use of formal models.

John Connelly

Professor
History

John Connelly is a Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies modern East and Central European political and social history, comparative education, the history of nationalism and racism, and the history of Catholicism.

Jennifer Bussell

Associate Professor
Political Science
Goldman School of Public Policy

Jennifer Bussell is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. She studies the foundations of democratic politics in economically developing states, with an emphasis on the political economy of development, democratic representation, and governance, principally in South Asia and Africa.