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Seminar on Public Opinion & Populism in the US and Europe

3 April 2017 by WPIT

Time:  11:45 – 1:30 pm

Preregistration Required: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/EUC4-3-17
Lunch provided for all pre-registered guests starting at 11:45 am.

Location: George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, Orientation Theater, Texas A&M University

Description: This seminar will address current trends in public opinion and populism in the U.S. and Europe, and how they are changing. Clifford Young is President of Ipsos Public Affairs in the United States and also leads Ipsos global election and political polling risk practice. Ipsos is one of the world’s leading independent market research companies. Young specializes in researching social and public opinion trends and election polling, and has lead polls on over 100 elections around the world. He is also an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins and an instructor at both Columbia University and University of São Paulo, where he teaches courses on public opinion and election forecasting.

 

This This seminar supports the Texas A&M University Democracy on Edge Project and the College of Liberal Arts Democracy Initiative.


For more information contact: Ann Klaus, European Union Center, annklaus@tamu.edu 

Tagged With: Bush School of Government and Public Service, Clifford Young, College of Liberal Arts, EUC, European Union, Political Science, Public opinion and populism, TAMU, Texas A&M University

Fernando Palomo “A Journey through the World’s Most Popular Sport”

29 September 2016 by WPIT

Hispanic Heritage Month Speaker Series

Fernando Palomo


Bristol, CT – March 8, 2013 – Photo Studio: Portrait of Fernando Palomo (Photo by Joe Faraoni / ESPN Images)

Fernando Palomo uses his vast soccer background to bring depth and insight to his work as the lead soccer play-by-play commentator covering European soccer in Spanish. He is the host ofFuera de Juego, ESPN Deportes and ESPN International’s highest-rated international soccer program since 2006.

Palomo regularly contributes to ESPN’s soccer coverage in English as a studio commentator and play-by-play for select marches.

Palomo joined ESPN in 2000 as a SportsCenter anchor for ESPN in Latin America.   He also served as an anchor for SportsCenter for ESPN Deportes from 2004 – 2006.

Tagged With: College of Liberal Arts, ESPN, Fernando Palomo, Histpanic Studies, IIDEA Grant, International Studies Department, ODDI, Organization Development & Diversity Initiatives, Political Science, Political Science Speaker Series, Texas A&M University

IIDEA: Hélène Landemore (Yale Univ) “Rousseau’s Mistake: Representation and the Myth of Direct Democracy”

18 April 2016 by WPIT

Helene LandemoreHer current research interests include democratic theory, theories of justice, the philosophy of social sciences (particularly economics), constitutional processes and theories, and workplace democracy.
She is the author of Hume. Probabilité et Choix Raisonnable (PUF: 2004) and Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many (Princeton University Press 2013). She is also co-editor with Jon Elster of Collective Wisdom: Principles and Mechanisms (Cambridge University Press 2012).

Her articles have been published in, among others, Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, and Political Psychology.

She is currently working on a new project on democratic innovations in post-representative democracy.

Tagged With: College of Liberal Arts, Hélène Landemore, IIDEA Grat COL, Texas A&M University, Yale University

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