UC Berkeley
For Planning For The Development Of A Political Economy Center
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Amount$200,000
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Program
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Date Awarded6/2/2022
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
This is a planning grant to design and launch a new center for the study of political economy at UC Berkeley. Political economy — the analysis of the interplay of markets and government — is a critically important domain of research and theorizing, relevant to addressing a wide range of global challenges. Berkeley has an exceptional faculty working in this field and a strong curricular foundation, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. This initiative seeks to build on and extend these strengths, making Berkeley a leading institution in the development of usable knowledge in this field, enhancing its training of the next generation of scholars, and encouraging engagement with relevant communities beyond the academy.
About the Grantee
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Address
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1608 Fourth Street, Suite 220, Berkeley, CA, 94710-5940, United States
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for support of the Political Psychology of American Democracy project
The Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP) at UC Berkeley is a graduate school that engages in research and analysis while also training students to deploy a broad toolkit for problem-solving. This grant supports GSPP’s Political Psychology of American Democracy project, which will launch a three-wave national public opinion study that tracks and analyzes the public’s political attitudes, beliefs, emotions, and behaviors toward democracy.
for support of the CEGA Global Networks Program
The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at the University of California at Berkeley works to produce rigorous evidence about what works to expand education, health, and economic opportunities for people living in poverty. This grant supports CEGA’s set of interconnected activities, including hosting fellowships for social scientists from East and West Africa, organizing convenings that connect African scholars to global networks of faculty and Ph.D. students for mentorship and collaboration, and increasing access to research, dissemination, and policy engagement opportunities for African researchers. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for the Berkeley Wildlife program
The mission of the University of California system is to serve society as a center of higher learning, providing long-term societal benefits through transmitting advanced knowledge, discovering new knowledge, and functioning as an active working repository of organized knowledge. This grant supports UC Berkeley’s program, Berkeley Wildlife, which provides solutions-oriented, cutting-edge, and interdisciplinary research, while also training the next generation of scientists and professionals to tackle complex problems in wildlife ecology, management, and policy. (Substrategy: Advance Conservation Protections)
