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This is an online event hosted by the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House, a hub for global engagement and international policy research.

This event is FREE, but you must register at Event Brite, at which point you'll be emailed a link to the Zoom event and a password you'll need to log in - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/elections-and-infections-politics-during-a-global-pandemic-tickets-106270473848?

EVENT TITLE:
"Elections and Infections: Politics During a Global Pandemic"

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
On the eve of the June 2 Pennsylvania primaries, UPenn's Perry World House is hosting a special virtual event to discuss politics and voting during a pandemic. They'll address several issues, such as:

  • How can states hold elections in a time of social distancing?

  • Could policies like mail-in voting help?

  • How has the crisis changed Donald Trump’s chances for reelection?

  • What does this crisis mean for the global order?

  • How are other countries responding to the challenge of holding elections in the age of COVID-19?

  • What can this crisis teach us about the resilience of democratic systems?

Join Perry World House, Penn’s Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies, and the Fels Institute of Government for answers to these and more questions with Congressman Charlie Dent and Professor John Lapinski.

Sign up for this virtual event, and details of how to take part will be in your order confirmation email.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

  • Charlie Dent is a Global Order Visiting Fellow at Perry World House. He has a bachelor's degree in international politics from Pennsylvania State University and a masters in public administration from Lehigh University. From 1991 to 2004, he served in the Pennsylvania General Assembly, and then won election to the United States House of Representatives in 2004, where he represented Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district from 2005 to 2018. During that time, Dent was known as a fiscally conservative Republican with moderate social views and a reputation for bipartisanship. During his tenure, he served on the House Committee on Appropriations, where he chaired the Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, and sat on the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Agencies Subcommittee. Previously, he served six years on the Homeland Security Committee. Dent is currently a senior policy advisor at DLA Piper and a contributor on CNN.

  • John Lapinski is the Robert A. Fox Professor of Political Science, Faculty Director of the Robert A. Fox Leadership Program and the Director of the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies. He also serves as the Faculty Director for the Executive Masters of Public Administration program within the Fels Institute of Government and as the Director of the Elections Unit at NBC News. In his role for NBC News, Lapinski is responsible for projecting races for the network and produces election-related stories through exit polls for NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, Telemundo, and all of NBC’s digital properties. Dr. Lapinski earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 2000, and previously was an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Yale University. He came to Penn in 2006. His primary area of research is concerned with understanding national elections as well as lawmaking in Congress through empirical analysis. He is the author of The Substance of Representation (Princeton University Press, 2013) and co-author (with David A. Bateman and Ira Katznelson) of Southern Nation (Princeton University Press, 2018).

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