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In this second event in our series on democratic backsliding in the U.S., panelists from across the UC Berkeley campus touched on the weakening of Congress, Trump and the courts, the pressures on civic institutions, and the possible dynamics and implications of popular protest, among other urgent topics.

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

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

Berkeley Political Economy program director Steven Vogel was also invited to share a book recommendation.

Sarah Anzia, a BESI participating faculty member and a leading scholar of local politics, was recently invited on the "Manhattan Insights" podcast to shed light on the political dynamics that shape the functioning of communities.