"Can you really predict an election?" ask pollsters
A panel of some of the biggest names in political forecasting are to discuss at a University of Manchester event whether it really is possible to predict an election. A panel of some of the biggest names in political forecasting are to discuss at a University of Manchester event whether it really is possible to predict an election.
(Media-Newswire.com) - A panel of some of the biggest names in political forecasting are to discuss at a University of Manchester event whether it really is possible to predict an election. A panel of some of the biggest names in political forecasting are to discuss at a University of Manchester event whether it really is possible to predict an election.
Professors David Sanders, Richard Nadeau, Matt Lebo and Michael Thrasher will assess how successful the art of predicting elections has been – and how it is likely to change in the future.
The roundtable is one of the issues up for discussion at a two day international symposium called ‘Methods and Models for Election Forecasting: the UK General Election of 2010’.
The event is organised by the Democracy, Citizens and Elections Research Network ( DCERN ) at The University of Manchester.
It is sponsored by the University’s Institute for Social Change, EPOP - a specialist group of the Political Studies Association of the UK and Routledge Publishers.
Notes for editors Roundtable – the future of forecasting will take place from noon to 1PM on Saturday 20 March at the Chancellors Conference Centre, Manchester.
Moderator: Professor Michael Lewis Beck ( University of Iowa ) Participants: Professor David Sanders ( University of Essex ) Professor Richard Nadeau, ( Université de Montréal ) Professor Matt Lebo ( Stony Brook University ) Professor Michael Thrasher, ( University of Plymouth )
Mike Addelman Media Relations Faculty of Humanities The University of Manchester 0161 275 0790 07717 881567 michael.addelman@manchester.ac.uk
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