Get Out The Vote: A How-To Guide
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Moderated by Juju Chang, co-anchor of ABC News’ Nightline
The upcoming election is critical, but fewer than two-thirds of eligible voters are expected to cast ballots. How can voter turnout be encouraged? Field experiments have become increasingly important ways of studying political behavior and guiding campaigns. Join us for an opportunity to hear political science Professor Donald Green and Mark Mullen, founder of the innovative non-profit organization Turnout Nation, discuss new concepts for increasing voter turnout and the experiments that prove they are effective.
Columbia's Summer Ideas Exchange is a unique opportunity for you to engage with some of the University’s most celebrated faculty. Do you have a question for Professor Green? If so, we want to hear from you. You can submit your question in advance with registration or live during the event on Columbia University’s Facebook page.
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Columbia’s Summer Ideas Exchange is a series of timely and dynamic conversations featuring some of the University's most accomplished and celebrated faculty across a variety of disciplines. These intimate and thought-provoking discussions and interviews preview some of the courses and content available during Columbia’s Summer Sessions coming up in May and June 2020. For more information on Columbia's Summer Sessions, please visit summer.sps.columbia.edu.
Donald P. Green is J. W. Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, where he has taught since 2011. Between 1989 and 2011, Professor Green taught at Yale University and directed its Institution for Social and Policy Studies. Professor Green is the author of four books and more than one hundred scholarly articles spanning a range of topics including voting behavior, mass media, partisanship, and hate crime. Much of his current work uses field experimentation to study the ways in which media messages mobilize and persuade. He is co-author of the textbook Field Experiments: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003. He co-founded the Experimental Research section of the American Political Science Association and served as its first president.
Originally from Dallas, Mark Mullen lives in San Francisco where he founded Turnout Nation. His lifelong work has focused on new ways to build and strengthen communities that value and promote civic engagement. Turnout Nation is a community of people who take on the responsibility to help ten people to vote in a clear organized way. After graduating from Wesleyan University he lived in Tokyo, Malawi, Palestine and for many years in Tbilisi, Georgia. There he worked for NDI.org, started Transparency.ge, Orbeliani.net and Radarami.org. He enjoys swimming, books, taking walks with his kids, and writing about himself in the third person.
Juju Chang is an Emmy Award-winning co-anchor of ABC News’ Nightline. She also reports regularly for Good Morning America and 20/20. Chang joined ABC News as an entry level desk assistant in 1987 and rose to become a producer for World News Tonight. Her first on-air job was reporting for KGO-TV in San Francisco. After a year in Washington, D.C. covering the White House, Capitol Hill and the presidential election for NewsOne, she co-anchored the overnight show World News Now. Chang’s work has been recognized with numerous awards including multiple Emmy’s, Gracie’s, a DuPont, a Murrow and Peabody awards. In 2017, she was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Front Page Awards. Born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in Northern California, Chang graduated with honors from Stanford University with a B.A. in political science and communication. She is married to WNET President and CEO Neal Shapiro and together they have three sons. Chang is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a founding board member of the Korean American Community Foundation.
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