After every midterm and presidential election, the Elections Research Center hosts a symposium in December. The all-day event features academic experts and political professionals who analyze the results of the elections in Wisconsin and around the country.
Past symposiums in 2016 and 2018 featured a variety of different topics, such as the impact of social media, independent voters, the gender gap, the rise of women candidates, and socioeconomic change in the electorate.
Join us in December of 2020 for our next symposium. Come back to this page or follow us on Twitter to be notified of the date.
2018 Panels and Participants
- Highlights of Elections 2018 (Barry Burden)
- The Political Impact of Social and Economic Change Since 1965 (Katherine Cramer)
- Worldview and the 2018 Election (Marc Hetherington)
- Measuring Success for Women in Election 2018 (Kelly Dittmar)
- A Look Back at the Politics of 2018 (Karen Tumulty)
- (Undisclosed) Campaigns on Social Media (Young Mie Kim)
- Can Digital Literacy Save Us from Fake News? (Brendan Nyhan)
- The 2018 Wisconsin Elections: What Changed, and What Didn’t? (Charles Franklin)
- The 2018 Elections within the Wisconsin Communication Ecology (Michael Wagner)
2016 Panels and Participants
Journalists Look at the Presidential Campaign
- Molly Ball, The Atlantic
- Dan Balz, Washinton Post
Campaign Communications
- Erika Franklin Fowler, TV Advertising in the 2016 Campaign
- Young Mie Kim, Digital Advertising
- Dhavan Shah, Understanding Election Dynamics via Social Media
Ideology and Independents
- Samara Klar, Independent Voters in the 2016 Election
- Michael Wagner, Ideological Heterogeneity and the 2016 Election
Demographic Groups in the Electorate
- Barry Burden, Understanding the 2016 Gender Gap
- Katherine Cramer, The Politics of Resentment
- Michael Tesler, Racial Attitudes in 2016
The Larger Electoral Structure
- Gary Jacobson, Congressional Elections of 2016
- Byron Shafer, 2016 in the Long View
The U.S. Senate Election in Wisconsin
- Charles Franklin, Marquette Law Poll
- Brian Reisinger, Ron Johnson campaign
- Tom Russell, Russ Feingold campaign