<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="6" color="#000000">The Center for Korean Studies</font></b></div><div><p align="center" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="6" color="#000000">University of California, Berkeley</font></b></p><p align="center" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="6">cordially invites you to<br></font></i></p><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_1588843a45683553" alt="Inline image 1" width="352" height="544"><br></div></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><div style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><div style="text-align:center"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:start"><p style="text-align:center;padding:0px;margin:0px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></p></div></div></div></div></div><br><br></div><h3 style="display:inline;padding:0px;margin:0px"><div style="text-align:center"><span style="text-align:start"><font color="#000000" size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><div style="display:inline">​Election Polling and Democratic Consolidation in Taiwan and Korea</div></font></span><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;text-align:center"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"><font color="#000000" size="2"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">​December 1​</div> | <div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">​9 a.m. ​</div>-<div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​4</div> p.m. | <div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">​Social Science Matrix, 820 Barrows Hall​</div></font></div><div style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="2" color="#000000"><br></font></div></span></div></h3><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"><div style="text-align:center"><font color="#000000"><label style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;max-width:100%;margin-bottom:0px;font-weight:bold;font-family:"open sans",sans-serif;text-align:start">Sponsors:</label><span style="font-family:"open sans",sans-serif;text-align:start"> </span><a href="http://ieas.berkeley.edu/" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"open sans",sans-serif;text-align:start" target="_blank">Institute of East Asian Studies</a><span style="font-family:"open sans",sans-serif;text-align:start">, </span><a href="http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"open sans",sans-serif;text-align:start" target="_blank">Center for Korean Studies</a><span style="font-family:"open sans",sans-serif;text-align:start">,<div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div></span><a href="http://ieas.berkeley.edu/ccs/" style="box-sizing:border-box;outline:0px;font-family:"open sans",sans-serif" target="_blank">Center for Chinese Studies</a><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">,​</div><span style="font-family:"open sans",sans-serif;text-align:start"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">​</div> </span><a href="http://matrix.berkeley.edu/" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"open sans",sans-serif;text-align:start" target="_blank">Social Science Matrix</a></font></div></div><p style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center;padding:0px;margin:0px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></p><p style="font-family:"open sans",sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-size:15px;line-height:22px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Polling the opinions of voters has become a regularized electoral institution in post-Third Wave democracies like Korea and Taiwan. At the same time, the use, influence, and even accuracy of polling in elections has increasingly come under scrutiny. This conference convenes leading scholars of electoral politics in Korea and Taiwan, as well as counterparts from the United States. The conferees examine the ways in which polling informs and facilitates, or impedes and frustrates, democratic competition. Among the topics that panelists will present on include the role of political parties and mass media, public trust and confidence in polling, the responsiveness of politicians to polls, and technological challenges and innovation in our methods of gauging public opinion.</p><p style="font-family:"open sans",sans-serif;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-size:15px;line-height:22px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><label style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;max-width:100%;margin-bottom:0px;font-weight:bold">Event Contact:</label> <a href="mailto:ieas@berkeley.edu" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,50,98)" target="_blank">ieas@berkeley.edu</a>, <a href="tel:510-642-2809" value="+15106422809" target="_blank">510-642-2809</a></p><p style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center;padding:0px;margin:0px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></p><p style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center;padding:0px;margin:0px"><font color="#000000">For more information, please click <a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=104356&date=2016-12-01&filter=Secondary%20Event%20Type&filtersel=829" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</font></p></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span class="m_6920617659750859707gmail-m_-6026190994961078940gmail-HOEnZb" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></font></span></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div></div></div></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div>