This webinar is part of the Series - Agenda 2020: Making Sense of the American Election.

In this talk, Professor Vavreck will shed light on the dynamics of the 2020 US presidential election, with a particular focus on the role of COVID-19, how it affected most Americans' lives, how attitudes about mitigation strategies were politicized by elites, and how it might have affected the outcome of the election.

Speaker:
Lynn Vavreck, Marvin Hoffenberg Professor of American Politics and Public Policy at UCLA

Moderator:
Peter Loewen, Director of PEARL, Professor in the Department of Political Science & Munk School

Sponsored by PEARL (Policy, Elections & Representation Lab), Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Department of Political Science.

Lynn Vavreck is the Marvin Hoffenberg Professor of American Politics and Public Policy at UCLA, a contributing columnist to The Upshot at The New York Times, and a recipient of the Andrew F. Carnegie Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences. She is the author of five books, including the “most ominous” book on the 2016 election: Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America, and The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election, described as the “definitive account” of the 2012 election. Political consultants on both sides of the aisle refer to her work on political messaging in The Message Matters as “required reading” for presidential candidates. Her 2020 election project, NATIONSCAPE, is the largest study of presidential elections ever fielded in the United States. Interviewing more than 6,000 people a week, NATIONSCAPE will complete 500,000 interviews before the inauguration in 2021. Professor Vavreck holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Rochester and held previous appointments at Princeton University, Dartmouth College, and The White House.

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