Presidential Politics | Lecture 2
This course explores how issues of race, class, faith and gender have shaped the candidates, campaigns, and our society. The course analysis spans the presidential race from the announcements of more than ten presidential hopefuls to the current competition between Senators Obama and McCa
From playlist Course | Presidential Politics in the 2008 Election
How to Abolish the Electoral College (National Popular Vote Interstate Compact)
2016 joins four other years in which the winner of the election lost the popular vote. Our democracy is meant to strive for one person, one vote, but the electoral college makes some people matter more than others, and allows less popular candidates to win. However, we can get rid of the e
From playlist Voting and Election Reform
From playlist Election 2016
History of the Presidential Nomination Process
In this lecture, Dr David Andersen (Durham University) sketches out the system of presidential elections in the United States and explores the historical origins of this system. We note the silence of the Constitution on the subject of presidential elections and consider how this ambiguity
From playlist Government and Politics
(New Version Available) Introduction to Voting Theory and Preference Tables
Updated Version: https://youtu.be/WdtH_8lAqQo This video introduces voting theory and explains how to make a preference table from voting ballots. Site: http://mathispower4u.com
From playlist Voting Theory
ISPS MIDTERM 2014: Expert Perspectives and Predictions
Join two of Yale's top election experts, David Mayhew and Eitan Hersh, and Senior Data Scientist for The Huffington Post, Natalie Jackson, for a moderated discussion of what to expect on Election Day 2014 and beyond. ISPS Director, Jacob Hacker, moderates this special event hosted by the Y
From playlist The Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS)
Congressional Leadership: Crash Course Government and Politics #8
This week Craig Benzine explores the leadership structure of congress. We’ll break out the clone machine to examine the responsibilities of the speaker of the house, the majority and minority leaders, and the majority and minority whips in both the Senate and the House. As the leadership h
From playlist U.S. Government and Politics
Political Parties: Crash Course Government and Politics #40
Today, Craig is going to talk about political parties and their role in American politics. So, when most people think about political parties they associate them with the common ideologies of the voters and representatives within that party, but the goal of a party is NOT to influence poli
From playlist U.S. Government and Politics
Election Basics: Crash Course Government and Politics #36
This week Craig is going to give you a broad overview of elections in the United States. So as you may have noticed, there are kind of a lot of people in the U.S, and holding individual issues up to a public vote doesn't seem particularly plausible. So to deal with this complexity, we vote
From playlist U.S. Government and Politics
Congressional Elections: Crash Course Government and Politics #6
This week Craig Benzine talks about the importance of elections in the strongest branch of the U.S. Government: Congress. He'll talk about the frequency of elections in the Senate and House, the typical characteristics of a candidate, and the motivating factors our congresspeople follow to
From playlist U.S. Government and Politics
A live discussion about the 2012 U.S. presidential election with political historian Beverly Gage.
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The Imprint of Congress: “The History”
Widely considered to be one of the leading scholars on the American Congress, David R. Mayhew, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Yale University, gave a series of three lectures in September 2015 on “The Imprint of Congress” for the Henry L. Stimson Lectures on World Affa
From playlist The Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS)
Presidential Politics | Lecture 1
October 6, 2008 lecture by Professor Al Camarillo for the Presidential Politics: Race, Class, Faith & Gender in the 2008 Election (CSRE12) course. Professor Camarillo discusses why and ow race, faith, gender and class matter. The 2008 U.S. Presidential Election is unprecedented. The n
From playlist Course | Presidential Politics in the 2008 Election
Democratic Deliberation and Solving Extreme Partisan Polarization with Larry Diamond & James Fishkin
What happens when a random sample of 500 Americans are brought together--with neutral moderation, balanced briefing papers, and a norm of mutually respectful listening--to discuss the great issues of our time? Hear from James Fishkin and Larry Diamond as they discuss the results of their
From playlist Stanford Alumni Faculty Talks
Nobel Laureate Martti Ahtisaari on Youth and Peace
In an interview with YaleGlobal editor Nayan Chanda Nobel Laureate Martti Ahtisaari talks about his mission for independence of Namibia, peace in Aceh, his concerns about youth unemployment and social unrest in the Middle East, hails the UN resolution on the Responsibility to Protect (R2
From playlist YaleGlobal
Jack Rakove: “Which Mattered More: Marbury v. Madison or McCulloch v. Maryland?”
History professor Jack Rakove uses two famous Supreme Court decisions to examine the early development of judicial review in his Stanford course, "The Constitution: A Brief History."
From playlist Stanford Historian Jack Rakove: "The Constitution: A Brief History"
Mathematics Public Lecture Moon Duchin
Political Thicket, Mathematical Quagmire: How voting is and is not a math problem
From playlist Mathematics Research Center
Best of The History Guy: Forgotten Heroes of the American Revolution
From The History Guy Vaults, five episodes about forgotten heroes of the American Revolution. Nearly a full hour of The History Guy. 0:00 - Hercules Mulligan, Patriot Spy 11:55 -John Laurens, Forgotten Patriot 25:21 - Samuel Whittemore, Official Hero of the State of Massachusetts 31:35
From playlist American Revolution
Math for Liberal Studies - Lecture 2.5.2 Runoff Voting
This is the second video lecture for Math for Liberal Studies Section 2.5: Miscellaneous Voting Methods. In this lecture, I discuss various kinds of runoff elections. Specifically, we discuss methods for eliminating candidates and recalculating the results to avoid having to hold a new spe
From playlist Math for Liberal Studies Lectures
The Field of Blood: Congressional Violence in Antebellum America, with Prof. Joanne Freeman
At the Yale Presidential Inauguration Symposia on October 12th 2013, Joanne Freeman, Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, presented a lecture entitled, "The Field of Blood: Congressional Violence in Antebellum America". In the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s, the United S
From playlist Yale Presidential Inauguration Symposia