Leading Questions

US presidential election: what the party platforms say – and what government officials need to know

Leading Questions

Show Notes

In this special edition of Global Government Forum’s Leading Questions podcast, which is based on a GGF webinar held in September, we look at the key issues in the upcoming United States presidential election.

Join Siobhan Benita as she discusses the key issues of the campaign with Dr Thomas Gift, the associate professor of political science and director of the Centre on US Politics (CUSP) at UCL, and Kevin R. Kosar, a resident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Listen to this podcast to find out the key issues shaping the campaign, the policy priorities being set out by the parties, and the early actions that the next president will likely take.

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