The opinion polls through August, September and October 2024 have revealed an incredibly close Presidential election contest in the US. This was one of the closest presidential contests in the modern era with the outcome potentially on a knife edge. Professor Carman discussed a week before the US elections the state of the contest and what we could have expected on election day. 

Speaker Bio

Christopher J. Carman (Ph.D., 2000, University of Houston) is the Stevenson Professor of Citizenship at the University of Glasgow. He has previously taught at the Universities of Strathclyde and Pittsburgh. His research focuses on political representation and its alternatives (e.g., public petitions systems), elections and electoral processes, public opinion and public (environmental) policy. He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals as well as co-authored several books examining politics, elections and representation in the United States, Scotland and the wider United Kingdom.

At the University of Glasgow Professor Carman has served as the Head of Subject (Politics & International Relations), the Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences (the largest School in the University, made up of the subject areas of Politics; Sociology; Urban Studies & Public Policy; Economic & Social History; and Central & Eastern European Studies); the Deputy Head of the School and Research Convener of Social and Political Sciences and the Glasgow Academic Dean of the Glasgow-Nankai Joint Graduate School.

 

First published: 18 October 2024

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