Elections and public opinion with Professor Sir John Curtice and Professor Sara Hobolt

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4.1 • 102 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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On this episode of UKICE (I Tell), Professor Anand Menon talks to Professor Sir John Curtice and Professor Sara Hobolt about the media and political discourse around polls, their predictions for the UK general election and what is at stake in the upcoming European Parliament election.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, happy new year. Welcome to this first episode of the Eukis Itel podcast for 2024.
0:11.1	I'm delighted to have not one but two eminent guests with me this week. Sarah Hobolt,
0:15.7	Sutherland Chair of European Institutions and Professor at the LSE, our less illustrious neighbor, and she's a fellow
0:22.1	of the British Academy to boot and has worked for years on and off with UK and a changing Europe,
0:26.3	and Sir John Curtis, who's Professor of Politics, Strathclyde University, senior research fellow
0:31.3	at UK and a Changing Europe, and Natsen, and apparently hosts a competitor podcast.
0:37.2	Welcome to both of you.
0:39.0	Thank you.
0:39.7	Hi, Anand.
0:40.7	Polling is what I want to talk to you about,
0:42.5	because you're both amongst the sort of best in the academic game
0:47.3	at studying, writing about assessing public opinion.
0:54.0	When you look at, I mean, you know, we've seen a lot in the last few weeks of chat public opinion.
0:54.6	When you look at, I mean, you know, we've seen a lot in the last few weeks of chatter about
0:58.8	polls in the newspapers and with politicians.
1:03.0	Do you sometimes sort of look at that and roll your eyes and think, you know, these people
1:06.9	just need to think about these things a bit more carefully?
1:10.2	Or do you think actually we're quite good in public discourse
1:12.7	at talking about and using polls?
1:14.9	I think we focus too much on polls.
1:18.8	When we think about it becomes all about the horse race of politics
1:23.2	when it's polling.
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