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 featured a variety of different topics, such as the impact of social media, the rise of women candidates, partisan change in the electorate, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Join us in December of 2022 for our next symposium.
2020 Virtual Panel Recording and Participants:
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