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The Accuracy of Pre-election Polls: A Comparative Perspective In-Person
SMU Tower Center in collaboration with the SMU Department of Political Science present: The Accuracy of Pre-election Polls: A Comparative Perspective
Date: Monday, November 11, 2024 - 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Location: Florence Hall, Room 304, 3rd floor, 3330 University Blvd. Dallas, TX 75205
Parking: Daniel Parking Center, 3330 Daniel Ave, Dallas, TX 75205
(Accessible parking and elevator. For more accessibility questions email us at tower@smu.edu.)
The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Please click below for registration.
Featured Lecturer: Christopher Wlezien, Hogg Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin
Christopher Wlezien is Hogg Professor of Government. He joined the University of Texas faculty in 2013 from Temple University in Philadelphia. Previously he taught at Oxford University, where he was Reader of Comparative Government and a Fellow of Nuffield College. While at Oxford, he co-founded the ESRC-funded Oxford Spring School in Quantitative Methods for Social Research. One of his major area of research addresses the evolution of voter preferences expressed in pre-election polls over the course of an election cycle.
His current work in the area undertakes cross-national analysis, the first article on which examines how political institutions condition the structure and evolution of electoral preferences in more than 300 elections in over 40 countries. A related article assesses pre-election poll errors in those elections, data for which is publicly available at my poll datasets site. Recent methodological research explores issues in the application of the “timeline” approach to studying electoral dynamics, and points to an approach for simultaneously assessing the effects of different system, party, and election-level variables. An initial analysis highlights the importance of party characteristics, which effectively mediate institutional influences.
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- Date:
- Monday, November 11, 2024
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)