Friday September 25, 2020
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Online Zoom Meeting
Dear Colleagues:
Greetings, and I hope that you and yours are healthy and safe in this socially-distanced time.
As part of that distancing, we’re continuing the “Friday Lunch” as an online event. After over thirty-years of in-person discussions it’s a bit of an adjustment; but this week we will take advantage of the change by hosting a speaker who does not have to come to campus (or Cleveland).
It will be a great pleasure to virtually welcome and hear from Chris Day about her current research. Professor Day’s studies focus on the politics of aging, and particularly both public opinion among the elderly and their organization into interest groups. Some of her work was with our late, greatly missed colleague, Bob Binstock.
Elderly voters in recent decades have moved from being relatively more supportive of Democrats to on balance supporting Republicans more. This can seem particularly puzzling considering that seniors have a greater stake in the core policies of the American welfare state, as constructed and defended by the Democrats: Social Security and Medicare. In her new work, Professor Day is using survey data to analyze how elderly voters think about economic and health care risks. One might think that seniors would differ from other voters if they had more (or less) fear of economic risks, such as of not being able to afford health care, or of national economic collapse. But do they – and, even if they do, how does that affect political attitudes?
She will report some results from her research and then we will discuss both that research and the broader patterns of political attitudes and participation among elder Americans.
Signing In
This semester’s discussions will begin at 12:30 p.m., the usual time. The meeting will be set up as from Noon to 2:00 p.m., so people are not all signing in at the same time and to allow for the discussion to run a bit long. Each week we will send out this newsletter with information about the topic. It will also include a link to register (for free) for the discussion. Every Monday the same information will be posted on our website: fridaylunch.case.edu.
If you register, you will automatically receive from the Zoom system the link to join the meeting. This week’s link for registration is:
https://cwru.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkf-ygrzgjE9HCIq9JSYL63hYkntGhIX_H
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Please e-mail padg@case.edu if you have questions about how the Zoom version of the Friday Lunch will work or any other suggestions. Or call at 216 368-2426 and we’ll try to get back to you. We are very pleased to be partnering this semester with the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program to share information about the discussions.
Best wishes for safety and security for you and yours,
Joe White
Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Policy Studies
About Our Guest
Christine L. Day is the author of AARP: America’s Largest Interest Group and Its Impact and What Older Americans Think: Interest Groups and Aging Policy, and co-author of Women’s PACs: Abortion and Elections. Her research has appeared in journals including The Journal of Politics, American Politics Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, American Review of Politics, Women and Politics, Social Science Quarterly, and in edited books.
Dr. Day’s current research focuses on interest group politics, particularly related to aging and to gender.
Schedule of Friday Lunch Upcoming Topics and Speakers:
October 2: Leading on Lead Poisoning: New Initiatives in Cleveland and the Role of Research. With Robert L. Fischer, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Co-Director, Center on Urban Poverty & Community Development, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences.
October 9: TBA
October 16: Covid-19 and the Economics of Health Care. With J.B. Silvers, Ph.D., John R. Mannix Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor of Health Care Finance.
October 23: COVID-19: Rapid Research and Rapid Revelations. With Mark Cameron, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences.
October 30: Election Forecast Discussion. Speakers To Be Determined
November 6: “Banning the Box”: The Substance and Politics of Legislation to Reduce Obstacles to Hiring Felons. With Daniel Shoag, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics.
November 13: Targeted Assassinations and Other Red and Not-So-Red Lines. With Shannon E. French, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Inamori Professor of Ethics, and Director, Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence
November 20: What’s the Beef? The Controversy Over the Health Effects of Red Meat. With Hope Barkoukis, Ph.D., Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Professor in Wellness and Preventive Care and Chair, Department of Nutrition.
December 4: The Economics of Sports After (?) COVID-19. With Jonathan Ernest, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics. |
