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Democratic backsliding in the United States

On February 11, BESI invited legal and political scholars from across the UC Berkeley campus to help contextualize a rapidly infolding constitutional crisis.

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Brian Judge: Democracy in default

Since the 1980s, liberal democracies have turned to finance as a way to depoliticize distributive conflict.

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Daniel Chandler: Free and equal

Chandler's take makes the case for a progressive agenda that would reshape society for the better.

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Rachel Weber: Seizing the means of prediction

Analysts and speculators don't have any special cognitive access to the future. But that doesn't stop them from trying their hand at divination, says Rachel Weber. The consequence is our dysfunctional real estate market.

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BESI in the news

BESI Director Paul Pierson and BESI Climate lead Jonas Meckling recently offered insights in the New York Times.