SIO222: What Happened in the UK Election? with Dr. Kristi Winters
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 1 January 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Recently, Boris Johnson's party won a significant majority in what seems to be the final nail in the Brexit Coffin. Many a liberal around the world are shocked and saddened by this, and many a columnist in the US has a hot take on what this portends for US politics. Here to give us more info than we can feasibly fit into 60 minutes is Dr. Kristi Winters, who has been studying British political elections for around 10 years.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. I'm Thomas that's Jamie. How you you? I am good. I'm excited because we have a guest today. I think this is this the first time you and I have had a guest together? I think it is. Wow. Well I'd like to welcome |
| 0:46.1 | our guest, Christy Winters, how's it going, Christy? It's going very well. Thank you both for having |
| 0:50.5 | me on the show again. Thank you for coming on. |
| 0:53.8 | Yeah, I had, it's funny, I'd put out the call |
| 0:56.5 | for somebody to maybe talk to about the UK general election |
| 1:01.1 | and I was expecting, I have so many friends who are who are British born and raised and then |
| 1:07.0 | Christie said oh I've been studying this just so happens I've been studying you know British elections for I don know, 10 years or something you said. |
| 1:14.0 | And I thought, well, sorry, I can't pass up the opportunity to have Christie back on. |
| 1:19.3 | It's been far too long since we spoke. |
| 1:22.1 | So, sorry, it's, it, in the end, it's going to be three Americans talking |
| 1:26.2 | about the UK election. But, Christie knows her stuff and has been studying this a ton. So hey do you want to give just |
| 1:34.1 | to start off Chris do you want to kind of tell the story of why you maybe know what |
| 1:38.8 | you're talking about about this stuff? Yeah fair enough. Very quick version is when I, after I got my undergraduate degree and went out and worked in politics for a while in America, I then decided to get my master's degree and went to the UK to do it. And I did it in political behavior, got my master's degree and went to the UK to do it and I did it in political behavior, got my |
| 1:54.1 | master's but that was also where I met who the guy who became my PhD supervisor |
| 1:58.7 | who was also running the British election study of Britain and when I applied for my PhD first year, |
| 2:04.0 | I also applied to be the senior research officer |
| 2:06.7 | of the British Election Study of Britain. |
| 2:09.0 | And I had the opportunity to watch him |
| 2:10.6 | and the team of Harold Clark and Marion and Paul Whiteley, David, Marion and Harold |
| 2:17.6 | watch them put together the study and conduct it and then see the results. |
| 2:22.3 | And then later on when I earned my PhD, |
| 2:25.0 | I applied for and became a postdoctoral fellow of the British Academy. |
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