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Alumni Election Integrity Lecture featuring Prof. Michael Alvarez

In this episode of Election Science Office Hours, Professor Alvarez's guest will be Jennifer Morrell, CEO and Co-Founder of The Elections Group, where she develops professional resources for elections officials and consults on election administration and auditing. Jennifer will discuss her work, and that of her team at The Elections Group, in the field during the 2024 election cycle with a focu...

In this episode of Election Science Office Hours, Professor Alvarez’s guest will be Tommy Gong, Deputy County Clerk-Recorder in Contra County, California. Tommy will share the programs Contra Costa put into place for the 2024 election in an effort to increase public trust and discuss how they worked - and most importantly, what is most applicable to future elections. Tommy Gong has spent over t...

In this episode of Office Hours, we'll talk about "What are the prospects for Ranked Choice Voting?" RCV was on the ballot, and lost, in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and South Dakota. Alaska's electorate also has voted to reject their RCV/Top-4 process. What is RCV? Why did it fail in all of these states? Why did it get repealed in Alaska? What are the future prospects for...

This is a very special post-Election Day episode of Office Hours where Professor Alvarez sat down with his fellow Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project (VTP) Co-Director, Charles Stewart III, PhD, to dissect and discuss what happened on Election Day - and more importantly - what happens next! Professor Stewart is an established leader in the analysis of the performance of election systems and t...

An important problem for election scientists is studying the in-person voting experience. A lot can be learned from quantitative data. But a lot can also be learned from qualitative observation of polling places and voting centers. Here Office Hours host Prof. Alvarez outlines the general approach he has developed over the past two decades for polling place and voting center qualitative observa...

In this episode of Office Hours, we'll talk with Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan about the November 5, 2024 election already underway throughout the United States., including in Los Angeles County, the nation's largest and most diverse local election jurisdiction serving 5.4 million registered voters, over 500 political districts, and providing election services in...

The Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy (LCSSP) at Caltech hosted a webinar on October 16, 2024 from 10 am to 12 pm PDT on the potential impacts of the recent Supreme Court Loper Bright (post-Chevron) decision on future regulation of biotechnology products. The panelists provided their perspectives and answered participant questions to explore how the Supreme Court's decision to overt...

What can be done between now and Election Day to boost voter confidence, especially in Southern California? How can we help deal with rumors and misconceptions about voting by mail? What are the biggest issues that may arise in vote centers and polling places? How we boost voter participation in this important election? We had a roundtable discussion of these issues on Friday, October 4th, at 1...

A guidebook for election officials was created by R. Michael Alvarez, Co-Director of the Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy on October 22, 2024.

“Technology and the Future of Capitalism: Attitudes Toward Market Institutions in an AI-Driven Economy,” Stephen Weymouth (Georgetown University)

“Resilient Democracies,” Carles Boix (Princeton University)

“Messaging about Different AI Development Timelines Fails to Change the Public’s Policy Preferences,” Baobao Zhang (Syracuse University)

“What If You See It? Workers’ Perceptions of and Reactions to LLMs,” Italo Colantone (Bocconi University)

AI Workshop - Panel 6: Attitudes Toward AI - Beatrice Magistro et al.

AI Workshop - Panel 5: The Economic and Political Foundations of AI - Ramit Debnath

AI Workshop - Panel 5: The Economic and Political Foundations of AI - Ethan Bueno de Mesquita

AI Workshop - Panel 5: The Economic and Political Foundations of AI - Victor Menaldo

AI Workshop - Panel 4: Public Opinion on AI Regulation - Yotam Margalit

AI Workshop - Panel 4: Public Opinion on AI Regulation - Shir Raviv

AI Workshop - Panel 4: Public Opinion on AI Regulation - Aina Gallego

AI Workshop - Panel 3: The Distributional Effects of Generative AI - Jason Anastasopoulos

AI Workshop - Panel 3: The Distributional Effects of Generative AI - Matthias Haslberger

AI Workshop - Panel 3: The Distributional Effects of Generative AI - David Holtz

AI Workshop - Panel 3: The Distributional Effects of Generative AI - Tobias Tober

AI Workshop - Panel 3: The Distributional Effects of Generative AI - Felipe Balcazar

AI Workshop - Panel 1: Technological Change and Politics - Stephen Chaudoin

AI Workshop - Panel 2: AI, Elections, and Political Communication - Morgan Wack

AI Workshop - Panel 2: AI, Elections, and Political Communication - D. Schiff & K. Jackson-Schiff