Atlantisches Forum am 7. Januar 2025: Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries

Atlantisches Forum: Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries

Join us for the book launch of Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries. In the course of the evening Dr. Cowburn will show how the congressional nomination process fundamentally changed in the twenty-first century, and examine how these changes have impacted the two parties. Contrary to the popular wisdom that primary elections are a force for polarization in Congress due to the positions of the primary voters, Dr. Cowburn instead shows that primaries impact party identity through the actions of political elites, especially the candidates themselves. [The event will be held in English]

Referent:

Dr. Mike Cowburn, European University Viadrina

Mike Cowburn is a postdoctoral researcher at the European University Viadrina. He works at the European New School of Digital Studies in the Chair of Digital Democracy. His research interests include intra-party factions, candidate selection, and political communication. His first book examines U.S. intra-party factions in congressional primary elections in the twenty-first century and considers their contribution to trends of partisan polarization in Congress. His research has also been published in many peer-reviewed journals, including Political Science Research & Methods, British Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, American Politics Research and Party Politics. He also serve as the co-PI of the Digital Campaigns & Elections (DiCE) Lab: www.dicelab.eu

Datum:

Dienstag, 7. Januar 2025, 18.00 Uhr

Ort:

Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität (RPTU) Kaiserslautern-Landau, Geb. 57, Raum 208/210 (Rotunde) 

In Kooperation mit der Atlantischen Akademie