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Center for Policy Studies
Public Affairs Discussion Group |
| Election Post-Mortem – or Interim Report |
Joe White, Ph.D. - Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy |
Friday November 8, 2024
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Meeting Both In-Person and by Zoom
Alternate Room: Mather House 100
Case Western Reserve University
Dear Colleagues:
Last Friday Professor Sutton and I offered some hopefully-informed guesses about what will happen on election day.
Or, more precisely, what the voting that has been going on for a while and the voting that will happen Tuesday and the counting that will happen afterwards will all add up to.
But next Friday we will know, sort of, maybe, what actually happened. Although it still might not be quite clear. Four years ago the media outlets didn’t call the election until the Saturday after. This year could easily be as uncertain.
But even if it’s uncertain we will know a lot more about the endpoint, and patterns of voting, and possible explanations, and reactions to the results.
Though I’ll be shocked if the House is obvious, given how long it takes to count votes in California.
So I will consult over the week with friends and data sets and try to explain what happened, or what’s going on. We will be joined in person and over zoom by a few other scholars. And we’ll try to figure out, together, what the country will be like next year.
Best wishes for safety and security for you and yours,
Joe White
Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Policy Studies
About Our Guest
Joe White is organizer of the Public Affairs Discussion Group due to his position as Director of the Center for Policy Studies in CWRU’s College of Arts and Sciences. He holds the Luxenberg Family Professorship in Public Policy with his primary appointment in the Department of Political Science and a secondary appointment in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences.
Dr. White joined our faculty in 2000 and served as Political Science Department Chair from 2003 – 2015. Before coming to CWRU he was an Associate Professor of Health Systems Management at Tulane University, and first Research Associate and then Senior Fellow in the Governmental Studies Program of the Brookings Institution. He earned his A.B. from the University of Chicago and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley, all in political science.
Dr. White’s research focuses especially on both U.S. federal budgeting and health care policy and politics. A lot of his health policy work compares policies across rich democracies. He has authored or co-authored three books, co-edited two, and authored or co-authored 85 articles or book chapters. These include his book with Aaron Wildavsky on budgeting during the Reagan administration, and nine other articles or chapters about presidents and budgeting. His c.v. and a selection of his work can be found at https://policy.case.edu/research/health-care-federal-budget-articles/.
Schedule of Friday Lunch Upcoming Topics and Speakers:
November 15: How Businesses Are Using – or Trying to Use – Generative AI. With Kalle Lyytinen, Ph.D., Iris S. Wolstein Professor of Management Design and Distinguished University Professor.
November 22: The Google Antitrust Case(s). With Anat Alon-Beck, J.D., Assistant Professor of Law, and colleagues.
December 6: The Housing Affordability Crisis: Causes and Consequences. With Daniel Shoag, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Economics.
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