Important Information |
|---|
Public Opinion for Policy & Market DevelopmentCourse Available by Arrangement Only. Group Discounts are available.
Course ObjectiveTwo of ANU's foremost researchers together with a team of past and current practitioners will attempt to answer these questions Who Should Attend?Public opinion research is becoming an increasingly important for policy-makers in making public policies, for parties and politicians in mobilising votes in elections, and for private sectors in understanding citizens' needs and interests. Accordingly, this course is useful to anyone interested in designing, utilising and accurately interpreting public opinion research such as political party staff, campaign managers, journalists, political commentators, media personnel , social policy researchers, staff of professional organisations charged with interpreting trends and opinions, industry lobbyists and advocacy groups and ministerial staff and advisors. Learning OutcomesAttendees will gain a valuable insight into the methodological analysis involved in polling and surveying of public attitudes and opinions and develop a far more critical and rigorous approach to the interpretation of opinion polling data and evaluations. Attendees will also develop an appreciation of unconventional event forecasting methods that rely upon decision markets such as futures markets and betting markets in attempts to more accurately predict outcomes. Attendees will also gain an insight into how Australian political parties have increasingly used opinion polls as determinants for policy making and agenda setting in the last decade of elections and assess to what extent this practice continues today. Course ContentDay One (Dr Yusaku Horiuchi)
Course ConvenorsDr Yusaku Horiuchi is a political scientist and senior lecturer at ANU's Crawford School of Economics and Government. Yusaku received his master's degree in Economics from Yale University and his doctoral degree in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Yusaku has a wide range of research interests that spans electoral politics, distributive politics, East Asian politics and economy, public opinion, and research methodologies. Yusaku's research articles have appeared in top journals, including American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution. Dr Andrew Leigh is an economist in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University and holds a BA(Hons) and LLB(Hons) from the University of Sydney, and an MPA and PhD from Harvard University. Andrew?s current research is in the fields of labour economics, public finance and political economy. He has previously worked as a lawyer for Minter Ellison (Sydney) and Clifford Chance (London), and as Associate to the illustrious Justice Michael Kirby of the High Court of Australia. Andrew has also worked as a researcher for the British Labour Party, as senior trade adviser to the Australian Labor Party, and as a research fellow with the Progressive Policy Institute based in Washington DC. Andrew has published numerous research articles in the disciplines of economics, public policy and law, and over 40 opinion pieces. His research findings have been discussed in the Australian, Australian Financial Review, Christian Science Monitor, Economist, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, Time Magazine, and Washington Post. Andrew was a co-editor (with David Burchell) of The Prince's New Clothes: Why do Australians Dislike Their Politicians? and a co-author (with Macgregor Duncan, David Madden and Peter Tynan) of Imagining Australia: Ideas for Our Future. |
