The Mervyn Dymally African American Political & Economic Institute (MDAAPEI) will hold its first Policy Roundtable Discussion of 2018 this Friday, December 14th, 2018 from 10 a.m. to 12:00 noon at the Welch Hall Building in the Claudia Hampton Lecture Hall (WH 165). The roundtable discussion will be held in partnership with the University’s Business & Public Policy School’s Public Policy Institute and the Organization Leadership Effectiveness Lab.
The purpose of the roundtable is to discuss the release of the Institute’s Constituency Awareness Survey, conducted from October 17-23, 2018 (two weeks before the November 6th, Midterm Elections), to ascertain the levels of awareness the public had around important policy proposals on the November ballot. The survey conducted by the EVITARUS Public Opinion Research firm, sought to understand public awareness of state and local policy proposals in high intensity National election cycles, in determining how public knowledge extends beyond knowledge of candidates and whether the public’s levels of civic engagement extended beyond voting. This survey is part of the MDAAPEI’s continuing research on the voting patterns and political awareness levels of low income voters, “low education” voters and unsophisticated voting practices that stemmed from these populations in the 2016 Presidential election results.
Executives from EVITARUS will be in attendance to present the polling results and the underlining assumptions captured in the survey. A post election analysis report will be presented by Institute Director, Dr. Anthony Samad, to assess whether the post-election outcomes of the November, 2018 state and countywide ballot initiatives are consistent with the “Blue wave” Democratic party partisanship that swept throughout the state and how the policy results will affect low income, low education and underserved voting populations.
Elected officials, CSUDH faculty and staff, community stakeholders and the press are invited. Light refreshments will be served. To confirm your attendance, contact MDAAPEI Coordinator, Ms. Gladys Jackson, at (310) 243-2659 or email her at [email protected].
