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| Sunshine Hillygus - Presidential Elections |
Editor: Christopher Parkerson
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Talk about timeliness! The day following the Inauguration of Barack H. Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America, we heard a fascinating presentation on "Presidential elections, polling and political behavior".
Our speaker was D. Sunshine Hillygus, the Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government at Harvard and one of the country's experts on presidential elections, polling and political behavior. During this past election she has given talks all over the world about the presidential election.
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| She will talk about the exit polling and data gathered during the
presidential election. Sunshine is director of the Harvard Program on
Survey Research. Her research and teaching interests include American
voting behavior, campaigns and elections, survey research, and
information technology and society. Her work has been published in the
American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the
British Journal of Political Science, and Political Behavior, among
others. She is co-author of The Hard Count: The Social and Political
Challenges of the 2000 Census (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006) and The
Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in Political Campaigns (Princeton
University Press, 2008). She is also a faculty affiliate of the
Institute for Quantitative Social Science and on the executive
committee of the Center for American Political Studies. |
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