Events

The discussion on presidential transitions featuring Willie Gaynor (2016 Trump Transition Team & 2000 Bush Transition Team), Jon Carson (2008 Obama Transition Team) and Gary Hollibaugh Jr. (Associate Prof. of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh).

The IOP hosted Dr. John Sides of Vanderbilt University and the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage Blog and Steve Schale, who was the executive director of Unite the Country during the 2020 election cycle. Our speakers provided expert insight on the 2020 election results and their impact on politics for 2021 and beyond.

The IOP hosted a live Zoom event on November 17, 2020. This post-election discussion with IOP Director Dr. Hans Hassell on “Campaigns in a New Environment: A Retrospective into Political Campaigns in 2020” elaborated on how political campaigns were different this election cycle and what that meant for politics in general.

 

The IOP@FSU held a timely event hosting G. Elliott Morris of The Economist who broke down the performance of election forecasting for the 2020 election. View this discussion with Dr. Brad Gomez, chair of the FSU Political Science Department on our YouTube channel.

IOP@FSU hosted an event with the FSU Alumni Association on November 4, 2020, where Dean Tim Chapin, from the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy, hosted a panel of esteemed faculty to explore American Democracy in action and our tradition of representative governance. Our featured panelists hosted a strictly nonpartisan discussion that provides information on next stages and explained emerging political processes. Registrants had the opportunity to submit questions ahead of time as well as ask our experts questions throughout the webinar.