The 2024 presidential and congressional elections are a pivotal moment for American democracy. Their outcomes will shape policy directions, test democratic institutions, influence Supreme Court appointments, and determine legislative power, impacting both domestic and global affairs.

This is the first in a series of four panel discussions in which Stanford’s leading social scientists will draw on their cutting-edge research to examine the multifaceted issues at play in this especially consequential election. We will explore the historical context of the presidential elections, the sources and degree of social polarization, the role of race and socio-economic status in voting, public opinion, vote and voter manipulation, electoral integrity, and the comparative dimensions of the elections in the United States.

PANELISTS:

• Beatriz Magaloni, Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
  • "The US Elections in a Year of Voting Across the Globe" 
• Shanto Iyengar, William Robertson Coe Professor and Professor of Political Science and of Communication
  • "Campaign Strategy in an Era of Polarization"
• Nathaniel Persily, James B. McClatchy Professor of Law at Stanford Law School; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
  • "Administering the 2024 Election" 

Co-sponsored and co-organized by the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University; the Center for Revitalizing American Institutions, at the Hoover Institution; and the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences.