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2020 Woody Jones Award Recipients

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The Woody Jones award honors excellence in research by political science undergraduates. In 1994, Woodrow Jones Jr. made history by becoming the dean of the College of liberal Arts and first African American dean at Texas A&M University.  Woody was committed to the importance of a Liberal Arts education, a commitment to diversity, and a passion for undergraduate education.

This year produced three outstanding research papers that will share the award.

The winners are:

 

Yanairem Moreno

“INCENTIVES TO INVEST: THE CASE OF MEXCIO” which examines the role of FDI on political violence.

 

Taylor Nicole Torres

“LATINX POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT AND THE EFFECTS OF EXECUTIVE LEVEL ACTION” which examines how the Latinx population mobilizes in response to executive level action on immigration.

 

William Black

“THE EFFECTS OF GENDER OF A JURY MEMBER ON VERDICTS AND PUNISHMENT” which examines how the sex of a jury member, as well as the sex of the offender and victim, affects the decision-making process in the sentencing phase of a crime.

 

 

Seminar on Public Opinion & Populism in the US and Europe

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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 

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

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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.

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

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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.