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SUMMARY:Culture wars\, voting and polarization: divisions and unities in m
 odern American politics - Prof Andrew Gelman (Columbia University)
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CONTACT:Simon Lacoste-Julien
DESCRIPTION:On the night of the 2000 presidential election\, Americans sat
  riveted in front of their televisions as polling results divided the nati
 on's map into red and blue states. Since then the color divide has become 
 a symbol of a culture war that thrives on stereotypes--pickup-driving red-
 state Republicans who vote based on God\, guns\, and gays\; and elitist\, 
 latte-sipping blue-state Democrats who are woefully out of touch with hear
 tland values.  But how does this fit into other ideas about America being 
 divided between the haves and the have-nots?  Is political polarization re
 al\, or is the real concern the perception of polarization?  We address th
 ese questions using recent and historical research.\n\n*BIO*: "Andrew Gelm
 an":http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/ is one of the leading quantitati
 ve researchers at the interface of social science and statistics. He has r
 eceived numerous honors for his work\, including the Outstanding Statistic
 al Application award from the American Statistical Association\, the award
  for best article published in the American Political Science Review\, and
  the Council of Presidents of Statistical Societies award for outstanding 
 contributions by a person under the age of 40.\n\nAndrew has written sever
 al books on statistical methods\, as well as "'Red State\, Blue State\, Ri
 ch State\, Poor State'":http://redbluerichpoor.com/\, a book about U.S. vo
 ting patterns. He is also well known for his "blog":http://www.stat.columb
 ia.edu/~gelman/blog/\, 'Statistical Modeling\, Causal Inference\, and Soci
 al Science'\, which covers topics such as data analysis\, statistical grap
 hics\, politics\, social science and academics in general.\n\nAndrew recei
 ved his undergraduate degrees in math and physics at MIT and his PhD in st
 atistics from Harvard. He is currently a professor of statistics and polit
 ical science and director of the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia Uni
 versity.\n\n*DIRECTIONS*: Directions to the main building of the Departmen
 t of Engineering can be found "here":http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/
 Directions .\nThe room LR4 is on the ground floor\, just to the right from
  the main entrance.
LOCATION:Engineering Department - LR4
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