[ICPSR] This week at the Summer Program: first free Blalock lecture!

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*First Blalock lecture of 2021 is TOMORROW*
*Date*: July 1, 2021, 7:30pm EDT
*Speaker*: Tina Eliassi-Rad, Northeastern University
*Title*: What can Complexity Science do for Democracy?
*Abstract*: In this talk we will discuss the following questions. What is
democratic backsliding? Is democratic backsliding an indicator of
instability in the democratic system? If so, which processes potentially
lead to this instability? If we think of democracy as a complex system, how
can complexity science help us understand and mitigate democratic
backsliding? This talk is based on these two papers: K. Wiesner et al.(2018)
<https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6404/aaeb4d> in European Journal of Physics
and T.Eliassi-Rad et al. (2020)
<https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-0518-0> in Humanities & Social
Sciences Communication.

These lectures are *free *to join and open to the public! If you can't make
it, a recording will be posted to the Summer Program YouTube channel
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgQWgr9Np3SKx54T_0hbo-Q>.

Join via Zoom with this link <https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock> at 7:30pm
EDT this Thursday.
*Short Workshop Feature: African Americans' Social and Political Attitudes*

Dates: August 2-6
Instructor: Darren Davis, University of Notre Dame

This workshop examines the evolution of African Americans’ social and
political attitudes, and the methodology used to measure them. Evolving
from a view that posited African Americans were largely homogenous and did
not possess coherent opinions to a view that African Americans’ attitudes
were an afterthought or serendipitous to studying Whites’ attitudes,
African Americans’ attitudes are now considered more relevant and
legitimate. Research in public opinion has begun to understand the
complexity and methodological challenges involved in measuring African
Americans’ attitudes. Through the examination of the etiology of prominent
attitudinal constructs among African Americans, such as the early work on
political alienation, linked-fate, political tolerance, group consciousness
and linked-fate, colorism, authoritarianism, and black racial resentment,
students will develop a greater awareness of the challenges involved in
racial research.

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