Online Talk and Discussion: Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries

Project number:

24-1126

Speaker:

Dr. Mike Cowburn, European New School of Digital Studies
European University Viadrina

Date:

Tuesday, November 26, 6 pm

Location

Online. Please register here for the webex event.

In cooperation with:

John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien (JFKI) der Freien Universität Berlin

About the event:

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.

Speaker

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 & MethodsBritish Journal of Political SciencePolitical Research QuarterlyAmerican Politics Research and Party Politics. He also serve as the co-PI of the Digital Campaigns & Elections (DiCE) Lab: www.dicelab.eu