Lecture to focus on ‘making sense’ of presidential election

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Posted: April 19, 2024 - 1:32 PM

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October 11, 2016 News

“How Did We Get Here? Making Sense of the 2016 Presidential Election” will be the focus of an Oct. 19 lecture at the University of Maine by political science professor Mark Brewer.

The 7 p.m. lecture in 100 Corbett Business Building is free and open to the public, and presented by UMaine Conference Services. For more information or to request a disability accommodation, call 581.4091.

In his lecture, Brewer will provide perspective on the 2016 American presidential election, which has been characterized as unlike any in the modern era, and put the race in historical context. He also will discuss what the 2016 presidential race tells us about the current state of American representative democracy.

Brewer’s research interests focus on political behavior, including partisanship and electoral behavior at both the mass and elite levels, the links between public opinion and public policy, and the interactions that exist between religion and politics in the United States.

Brewer is editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Political Science and author or editor of many books and articles in academic journals, including “Parties and Elections in America,” seventh edition (with L. Sandy Maisel, Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) and “Polarization and the Politics of Personal Responsibility” (with Jeffrey M. Stonecash, Oxford University Press, 2015).