Carsey Policy Hour

Andrew Smith is the Director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. He has more than 35 years experience in academic survey research, currently as Director of the Survey Center since 1999, following positions at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Cincinnati. As Director, Smith is responsible for overall staff and financial management of the UNH Survey Center. Smith is also Professor of Practice in Political Science in the UNH Department of Political Science where his teaching and research has focused on survey methodology, elections, and public policy. Smith is a member of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and is past President of its New England Chapter. He is also a founding member and past President of the Association of Academic Survey Research Organizations (AASRO). His methodological research has included work on question wording effects, question and response order effects, the issue of non-attitudes in surveys, and methods of improving the accuracy of pre-election surveys. He regularly presents at academic conferences on public opinion and political science.

Dante Scala is a professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire. He has been an observer of New Hampshire politics for more than two decades and has written two books on the Granite State and the presidential nomination process, as well as numerous shorter works.