BYU | Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy (CSED)

12/13/2022

Congratulations to all our wonderful fellows for their performance at the Mary Lou Fulton Research Conference! They've worked hard this entire semester and brought back awards for CSED with their original research.

A special congratulations to Grace, Ashlan, and Kathryn who won 1st place in the Center for Civic Engagement category, and to Jacob and Elle who won second place in the Political Science category!

We can't wait to see what our fellows will do next semester!

11/17/2022

We had a great post-midterm panel on Tuesday! A big thanks to Damon Cann, Jim Curry, Alejandra Aldridge and Kelly Patterson for the great discussion!

11/14/2022

A reminder that this event is happening tomorrow!! You won't want to miss it!

Mark your calendars for a post-midterms panel hosted by CSED! We are having some great guest panelists from various Utah universities. We hope to see you November 15th at 4pm!

For more event details: https://fhss.byu.edu/midterm-elections

11/04/2022

Mark your calendars for a post-midterms panel hosted by CSED! We are having some great guest panelists from various Utah universities. We hope to see you November 15th at 4pm!

For more event details: https://fhss.byu.edu/midterm-elections

10/31/2022

Throughout the coming month we will be posting some of our 2022 American Family Survey findings!

Here's what we found when asking how long Americans think abortion should be legal.


Visit https://www.deseret.com/american-family-survey-2022
to learn more!

10/04/2022

The Brookings launch of the 2022 American Family Survey has been a great discussion so far! It is still streaming, check out the discussion panel here:
https://www.brookings.edu/events/the-2022-american-family-survey/

10/04/2022

The Brookings launch of the 2022 American Family Survey has been a great discussion so far! It is still streaming, check out the discussion panel here:

On Tuesday, October 4 the Brookings Center on Children and Families, Deseret News, and Brigham Young University will host an event to dive into the findings of the 2022 American Family Survey. Researchers from Deseret and BYU will present key takeaways and a panel of experts will follow.

09/26/2022

https://www.brookings.edu/events/the-2022-american-family-survey/
Get ready for the release of the 2022 American Family Survey! Check out Brookings on October 4th at 1PM EDT to tune in to our discussion panel!

On Tuesday, October 4 the Brookings Center on Children and Families, Deseret News, and Brigham Young University will host an event to dive into the findings of the 2022 American Family Survey. Researchers from Deseret and BYU will present key takeaways and a panel of experts will follow.

09/20/2022

https://www.deseret.com/2022/9/19/23362299/study-latter-day-saint-mormon-missions-change-political-views-on-immigration
Take a second today to read this interesting new study recently published in the Journal of Politics from the Director of CSED, Chris Karpowitz, and his colleagues about LDS Missionaries and their changing political views on immigration!

Utah is a Republican-leaning state but has sometimes been an outlier on issues related to immigration

09/07/2022

Introducing our 10 undergraduate fellows for the 2022-2023 school year!

Each of these fellows are gifted students and display a passion for political science research. Throughout the coming weeks we will be more formally introducing each fellow, as well as the CSED scholars at BYU.

Stay tuned for new research projects that these fellows and their scholar mentors will be working on!

08/29/2022

CSED presents the Mark Walton campaign collection!

Stay tuned for our showcasing of this extensive political memorabilia collection throughout the school year.

Go to our website http://csed.byu.edu to learn more about our program and this collection.