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“The 2024 US Elections — Where We Are Now,” Professor David Brady

November 6, 2024 interview with David Brady

via Stanford Graduate School of Business

Articles

Congress Needs To Reclaim Its Role In Policymaking

November 15, 2024 By Brandice Canes-Wrone, Matthew Chervenak

via The Hill

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Podcasts

Restoring Confidence In Congress: Will The House Come To Order?

By most metrics – a 16% job-approval rating, failing to deliver budgets much less conducting itself in a stately manner – the U.S. House of Representatives isn’t living up to the Founding Fathers’…

November 14, 2024 interview with Bill Whalen , Brandice Canes-Wrone , Daniel Lipinski

via Matters of Policy & Politics

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Hoover Institution Discussion On The 2024 Presidential Election Results

November 12, 2024 interview with Brandice Canes-Wrone, Douglas Rivers, David Brady

via C-SPAN

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Election 2024: YouGov's Final Projections With Doug Rivers

November 4, 2024 interview with Douglas Rivers

via YouGov

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America’s Shifting Latino Vote: Tectonics Trumps All?

November 25, 2024 interview with Bill Whalen, David L. Leal

via Matters of Policy & Politics

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Douglas Rivers

Senior Fellow

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Douglas Rivers

Senior Fellow

Douglas Rivers is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science at Stanford University. He is also the Chief Scientist at YouGov PLC, a global polling firm.

Morris P. Fiorina

Senior Fellow

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Morris P. Fiorina

Senior Fellow

Morris P. Fiorina is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. His current research focuses on elections and public opinion with particular attention to the quality of representation: how well the positions of elected officials reflect the preferences of the public. During the course of his forty-year career Fiorina has published numerous articles and books on national politics including Congress—Keystone of the Washington Establishment (Yale University Press, 1977), Retrospective Voting in American National Elections (Yale University Press, 1981), and Divided Government (Allyn & Bacon, 1992). The Personal Vote: Constituency Service and Electoral Independence, coauthored with Bruce Cain and John Ferejohn (Harvard University Press, 1987), won the 1988 Richard F. Fenno Prize. He is also coeditor of Continuity and Change in House Elections (Stanford University Press and Hoover Press, 2000). The third edition of his 2004 groundbreaking book Culture War: The Myth of a Polarized America (with Samuel J. Abrams and Jeremy C. Pope) was published in 2011. He coedited Can We Talk? The Rise of Rude, Nasty, Stubborn Politics (Pearson, 2013). Most recently he published Unstable Majorities (Hoover, 2017). Fiorina has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. He has served on the editorial boards of more than a dozen journals on political science, law, political economy, and public policy. From 1986 to 1990 he was chairman of the Board of Overseers of the American National Election Studies. Fiorina received his BA degree from Allegheny College and his MA and PhD from the University of Rochester. He lives in Portola Valley, California.