Democracy Policy Lab | Research Behavior and Democracy Policy Political Psychology of American Democracy Money in Politics Election Admin & Redistricting Race, Civil Rights, and Democracy Labor and Democracy Young Americans’ Political Representation State Democracy Index State Voting Laws Roundup WA State Election Database People In the News Select Page The Democracy Policy Lab Your resource for research on the intersections of politics, policy, and democracy. Housed at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, our work uncovers the influence of campaign finance, election administration, civil rights, and labor policies on state-level democratic performance. Markets do not punish firms for maintaining DEI In January 2025, the Trump administration issued an executive order directing federal agencies to investigate and compel firms to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. New research shows that firms that maintained their DEI programs performed just as well as those that complied, suggesting there are areas where firms can resist pressure from the executive branch with minimal cost to financial performance. Read the paper A House Divided: Partisan Mismatch, Abortion Bans, and Relationship Duration Preliminary research from Democracy Policy Lab researchers Rachel Funk Fordham and Ernesto Tiburcio reveals fractured relationships in the wake of Dobbs. Read the paper May 2026 State Voting LAws Roundup Voters across the country will face new voting restrictions in the upcoming midterms. Read the latest roundup of state voting legislation from the Democracy Policy Lab and the Brennan Center for Justice. Read the full roundup How Normie Pundits Paved the Way for the Supreme Court Voting Rights Disaster In the wake of Louisiana v. Callais, faculty director Jake Grumbach lays out how a focus on partisan polarization led to the Supreme Court ruling. Read the article More Research Behavior and Democracy Policy Read more Money in politics Read more Labor and Democracy Read more Young Americans' Political Representation Read more Race, Civil Rights, and Democracy Read more Election Admin & Redistricting Read more The State Democracy Index 2.0 A quantitative measure of democratic performance across all 50 states within the U.S., from 2000 to 2023. Read more The State Voting Laws Roundup Tracking expansive and restrictive state voting legislation around the country. Read more WA State Election Database Estimated racial demographics in electoral precincts in Washington State. Read more Privacy policy  |  Nondiscrimination  |  Accessibility Copyright ©2026 UC Regents; all rights reserved Contact