On Friday, April 21st, 2023, Air National Guardsman, former Congressman, and senior political commentator Adam Kinzinger came to Dartmouth College to deliver a speech entitled, "Empowering the Reasonable Majority: Rejecting Division, Defending, and Repairing American Democracy."
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In his evening lecture, titled "Do Voters Actually Care About Federal Budget Deficits? How Partisan Bias Shapes the Importance of Issues," Professor Kane unpacked the findings in this paper, sharing his hypothesis that "partisans will adjust the importance of deficit spending based upon the party of the incumbent president."
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Meyer directed the media program for Raphael Warnock's Senate campaigns and more than twenty others through the years. In addition to political campaign ad programs, he has advised labor unions, EMILY's List, and nonprofit organizations. Drawing from these professional insights, Meyer came prepared on Monday with anecdotes from the industry and heaps of advice for aspiring young professionals.
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On February 3, Dean Lacy, chairman of the government department, and Harry Enten, a 2011 graduate and senior analyst at the data journalism site FiveThirtyEight, spoke on how the polls could be so wrong, and if the polls were in fact wrong.
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In July, political scientist, New York Times contributor, and Dartmouth Professor of Government Brendan Nyhan organized the 2016 Dartmouth Experiments Conference. This two-day event brought together researchers who use quantitative data to investigate phenomena surrounding elections, voter behavior, and public opinion. As an intensive quantitative research workshop, the conference featured presentations of new findings and study designs by graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and junior faculty who study American politics.
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