LUCIR US Elections Roundtable 1: Comparative perspectives on campaigning, polarisation, and political violence

• Date: 24 October
• label.tijd 17:15 - 19:00
• Location: Wijnhaven

Before the 2024 US elections...

How has the Democrats’ new nominee for president Kamala Harris changed the election campaigns? Who are the undecided voters and how do the campaigns try to gain their support? What role has political violence, including the attempted assassinations of Donald Trump, played in the campaign? What is the likelihood that we will see more protest, (legal) conflict, or even political violence? Will the democratic institutions again hold?

Please join the round table to discuss these and other questions with panelists from the social sciences and humanities providing insights on contemporary US politics from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. After short inputs from the panelists, there will be time for the audience to ask questions.

Panel

• Andrew Gawthorpe, Institute for History, Leiden University: Campaign strategies and the electoral map
• Jessie Morgan, Leiden University Center for the Arts in Society: Political violence
• Josh Robison, Institute of Political Science, Leiden University: Polarisation, gender/race, and voting
• Daniel Thomas, Institute of Political Science, Leiden University: Democracy in America?

Moderator: Corinna Jentzsch, Institute of Political Science, Leiden University

Registration

Please register via the registration link if you wish to attend this event.

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