The 2016 Elections: What Just Happened?
Four political scientists will offer their insights into the unexpected results of the 2016 elections, and what can we learn from them, in an event titled 鈥淭he 2016 Elections: What Just Happened?鈥
The event will take place on Thursday, March 2, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel on the University of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder campus.
The four experts who will speak are:
- ,听professor of government and director of the Women & Politics Institute at American University.
- ,听professor of political science and chair of the Department of Political Science at University of Denver.
- ,听associate professor of political science and associate director of the American Politics Research Lab at 欧美口爆视频 Boulder.
- , associate professor of political science at 欧美口爆视频 Boulder.
E. Scott Adler, 欧美口爆视频 Boulder professor of political science and director of the , which is sponsoring the event, has asked the panelists to consider two main sets of questions:
- How did we end up with this result? What happened in the electorate? Did the campaign matter?
- How did scholars and pollsters get it so wrong?
Lawless, an expert on women in politics and the choice of running for office, plans to address these questions specifically from the perspective of female candidates and voters.
Masket will discuss election-forecasting models and talk about a baseline of how Clinton or Trump 鈥渟hould鈥 have done as a way to evaluate how they actually did.
Sokhey will discuss patterns of political discussion in the general public as well as the role of religion during the election.听听
Wolak will address听how macropolitics helps explain this election outcome and why it is difficult for pollsters to foresee these kinds of outcomes.