A UCLA-led group of racial and ethnic politics researchers from across the nation are already gearing up to make sense of the 2020 presidential election.

They will interview 6,200 people a week, every week, between July 2019 and election day 2020. The survey will allow them to investigate and compare people’s issue priorities and political preferences across units as small as mid-size cities across the U.S. The project was developed in consultation with UC faculty members Michael Tesler (Irvine) and Kevin Esterling (Riverside) with support from the survey firm LUCID, Inc. Graduates students Aaron Rudkin, Alex Hayes, Tyler Reny, Brian Hamel, Derek Holliday, and Bradley Mankoff will staff the project.

Professor Arthur Stein, Professor Robert Trager, and their research team have received a UC Multicampus-National Lab Collaborative Research and Training Award exceeding $3 million for their research project, “Political Conflict and Stability in Dynamic Networks.”