California and the 2024 Election: Berkeley IGS Poll Pre-Election Panel

Join us at the Institute of Governmental Studies Library on Friday, November 1st at 12:00pm for "California and the 2024 Election." This panel event will feature a presentation by Berkeley IGS Poll Director Mark DiCamillo on the latest round of statewide election-related data, conducted in partnership with the LA Times, followed by a moderated discussion with a panel of experts on the results, the mood of the electorate, likely turnout, the race for the Presidency, national control of the House and Senate, and key statewide initiatives.

Panelists:

• Mark DiCamillo, Berkeley IGS Poll Director, UC Berkeley (Presenter)
• Marissa Lagos, California Politics and Government Contributor, KQED

• Laurel Rosenhall, California Politics Editor, LA Times
• Eric Schickler, Professor of Political Science & Institute of Governmental Studies Co-Director, UC Berkeley

Moderator:

• G. Cristina Mora, Associate Professor of Sociology & Institute of Governmental Studies Co-Director, UC Berkeley

The event will be followed by a light reception.

* This event will also be hybrid; virtual attendees will be able to join via Zoom Webinar. In order to attend, you must have an active email account and register via Zoom.*

This event is sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Studies.

About the Presenter:

Mark DiCamillo is director of the Berkeley IGS Poll, a non-partisan survey of California public opinion on matters of politics, public policy and public affairs conducted by the Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) at UC Berkeley. Working under IGS co-directors Eric Schickler and Cristina Mora, he is responsible for overseeing the design and execution of each poll, as well as preparing reports and press releases summarizing its findings to the news media. DiCamillo has been actively involved in measuring public opinion in California since 1978, when he joined Field Research Corporation, founded by legendary pollster Mervin Field. He worked under Mr. Field as assistant director of the statewide Field Poll for fifteen years, and in 1993 succeeded Field to become its director and served in that capacity through 2016. During his tenure, The Field Poll consistently was ranked among the nation’s most accurate and reliable polls in Nate Silver’s Fivethirtyeight.com’s biennial evaluation of major polling organizations across the United States. During this period DiCamillo was also Field Research Corporation’s Senior Vice President and in that role was responsible for conducting large-scale quantitative surveys for state and local government agencies, academic institutions, foundations and non-profit organizations. DiCamillo is a recognized authority on polling in California and is the author of hundreds of reports summarizing California public opinion. Since joining IGS he has worked to expand the operations of the IGS Poll, founded in 2011. For a listing of the press releases and poll reports authored by DiCamillo during his tenure as director of the Berkeley IGS Poll go to https://igs.berkeley.edu/research/berkeley-igs-poll. DiCamillo is a cum laude graduate of Harvard University and holds a Masters in Business Administration from Cornell University’s Johnson School of Business.

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About the Panelists:

​​Marisa Lagos is a correspondent for KQED’s California Politics and Government Desk and co-hosts a daily show and podcast, Political Breakdown, where she sits down with political insiders to dig into policy and politics — and offer a peek into the lives and personalities of those driving politics in California and beyond. At KQED, Lagos also conducts reporting, analysis and investigations into state, local and national politics for radio, TV, online and on stage. She has worked at the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner and Los Angeles Times.  A UC Santa Barbara graduate, she lives in San Francisco with her two sons and husband.

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Laurel Rosenhall leads the Los Angeles Times’ coverage of California politics, supervising a team that includes journalists in Sacramento, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Based in the Sacramento bureau, she manages coverage of the California Capitol and the state’s Congressional delegation. Rosenhall joined the company in 2021 and spent a year as a member of the editorial board writing about California politics and policy. Previously, she covered state politics for CalMatters and the Sacramento Bee. A lifelong Californian, Rosenhall grew up in San Francisco and graduated from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

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Eric Schickler is the Jeffrey & Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of three books which have won the Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Prize for the best book on legislative politics: Disjointed Pluralism: Institutional Innovation and the Development of the U.S. Congress (2001), Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the United States Senate (2006, with Gregory Wawro), and Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Power (2016, with Douglas Kriner; also winner of the Richard E. Neustadt Prize for the best book on executive politics). His book, Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932-1965, was the winner of the Woodrow Wilson Prize for the best book on government, politics or international affairs published in 2016, and is co-winner of the J. David Greenstone Prize for the best book in history and politics from the previous two calendar years. He is also the co-author of Partisan Hearts and Minds, which was published in 2002. He has authored or co-authored articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, Polity, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Social Science History. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of American politics, the U.S. Congress, rational choice theory, American political development, and public opinion.

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About the Moderator:

G. Cristina Mora is Associate Professor of Sociology and Chicano/Latino Studies (by courtesy) at the University of California, Berkeley. She completed her B.A. in Sociology at Cal in 2003 and earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University. Her research focuses mainly on questions of census racial classification, immigration, and racial politics in the United States and Europe. Her first book, Making Hispanics (2014), provides the first historical account of the rise of the “Hispanic/Latino” panethnic category in the United States. This work, along with related articles, has received wide recognition, including the American Sociological Association’s 2010 Best Dissertation Award and 2018 Early Career Award (SREM). She is currently working on two new book projects funded by the Russell Sage Foundation. The first, California Color Lines: Racial Politics in an Era of Economic Precarity (w. T. Paschel) examines the contradictions of racial politics in the nation’s most diverse and seemingly professive state. The second, Race and the Politics of Trust in an Age of Government Cynicism (w. J. Dowling and M. Rodriguez-Muniz) provides the first mixed methods examination of race and political trust in the U.S. In July 2020 she was appointed Co-Director of IGS along with Eric Schickler.

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