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CAPS Seminar
You’re invited to join us for the CAPS Seminar, “Inside the Decision Desk,” where Stephen Ansolabehere and Costas Panagopoulos will be discussing their work providing expertise on U.S. elections to news organizations leading up to and on election night. The talk will be followed by light refreshments.
About the Speakers
Stephen Ansolabehere is the Frank G. Thompson Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is a scholar of U. S. elections, representation, and public opinion. He is the principal investigator of the Cooperative Congressional Election Survey, a collaborative research effort involving more than 250 researchers at over 60 universities, and he runs the Harvard Election Data Archive. He has published in fields of political science, law, economics, and statistics. His books include Going Negative: How Political Advertising Shrinks and Polarizes the Electorate and The End of Inequality: One Person, One Vote and the Transformation of American Politics. He has just finished Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think About Energy in the Age of Global Warming. He consults with CBS News Election Decision Desk. He is a Truman Scholar, a Hoover National Fellow, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University.
Costas Panagopoulos is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University. During Fall 2024, he will be Visiting Scholar in the Department of Government and an affiliate of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard. Between 2006-2020, Professor Panagopoulos was part of the Decision Desk team at NBC News. Since the 2022 cycle, he has been on the Decision Desk at Edison Research, which conducts exit polls and analysis for the National Election Pool that includes NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN. He is a leading expert in campaigns and elections. He has authored, coauthored or edited 11 books and over 100 peer-reviewed articles, including Battleground: Electoral College Strategies, Execution and Impact in the Modern Era (co-authored with Daron Shaw and Scott Althaus) published last month by Oxford University Press.
About the Seminar
The CAPS Seminar is a monthly series highlighting research by CAPS affiliates and fostering discussion among members of our community.