EVENTS

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The Institute for Public Affairs welcomes students and guests for a discussion on the current and future role of the Republican Party in Philadelphia city politics.

Special guests include:

Michael Meehan-

     Meehan is Counsel to the Republican City Committee since 1994 and leader of the Philadelphia GOP, the third generation of Meehans to have led the GOP since Mayor Barney Samuel.  Barney Samuel was the city's last Republican Mayor, from 1941 to 1952.

Sam Katz-

     Katz is a Philadelphia businessman and politician, who had three unsuccessful attempts at the Mayor's office as the Republican candidate.  He ran in 1991, 1993 and 2003.

Al Schmidt-

     The Republican candidate for City Controller in 2009, Schmidt is the former Executive Director of the Republican City Committee.  He was recently hired by state Republican Committee Chairman Rob Gleason as "senior advisor" to the state Republican Party.

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Campaigns and Elections Speaker Series:

 

SPRING 2010

All talks are from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm, 914 Gladfelter Hall, The Russell Weigley Room

 

            "The Next Republican Majority"

Bartels is a professor of politics and public affairs and the Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs.  He directs the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics in Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School.   He has published numerous articles on electoral politics, public opinion, the mass media, and political methodology in The American Political Science Review, The American Journal of Political Science, and other leading scholarly journals and volumes.  His current work focuses on the American electoral process, the political economy of economic inequality, and democratic theory.  His latest book, Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (2008) was published by Princeton University Press and the Russell Sage Foundation.

 

  • Thursday, February 18, 2010: Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania

            "Still a House Divided?: The Present and Future of American Racial Politics"

Rogers Smith is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.  His work focuses on constitutional law, American political thought, and modern legal and political theory, with special interest in questions of citizenship, race, ethnicity and gender.  He is the author of numerous articles and books including Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics (2004), Stories of Peoplehood: The Politics and Morals of Political Memberships (2003), and Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History (1997) which was a finalist for the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in history and won several awards from the American Political Science Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the Social Science History Association.  He currently chairs the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism.  He has a B.A. from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

 

           "Connecting Public Opinion and Social Movement Events: The Case of the U.S. Women's Movement"

Lee Ann Banaszak is Associate Professor of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University.  Her primary research interests are comparative political behavior, social movements, and women and politics.  She has been published in the American Political Science Review, Electoral Studies and Public Opinion Quarterly, among other journals.  She is the author of several books including Why Movements Succeed or Fail, The Women’s Movement Inside and Outside the State, and Women’s Movements Facing a Reconfigured State (edited with Karen Beckwith and Dieter Rucht).

  • Monday, March 15, 2010: Justin Phillips, Columbia University and the Russell Sage Foundation

            "Explaining Democratic Performance in the States" [paper]

Justin Phillips is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and currently a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar.  He has published articles in the American Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization.  His current research projects include analyzing the effects of public opinion on sub-national policymaking and evaluating the power of state governors in negotiations with legislatures.  His research interests include American politics, state and urban politics, direct democracy and tax policy.

 

  • Monday, April 26, 2010: Mark Franklin, European University Institute

            "Electoral Change"

 

FALL 2009

  • Monday, September 21, 2009: Jack Nagel, University of Pennsylvania

"The US Electoral College and the Probability of Disputable Outcomes under Direct and Indirect Elections"

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm, 914 Gladfelter Hall

 

"Why the Reed Rules?: The Post-Reconstruction South, Republican Party-Building, and Congressional Development"

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm, 914 Gladfelter Hall

 

"Gender and Election to the State Legislatures: Then and Now"

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm, 914 Gladfelter Hall

 

"Informing Legislators of Constituent Opinion: Results from a Field Experiment"

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm, 914 Gladfelter Hall

 

 

SPRING 2009

"Re-evaluating the Theory of Surge and Decline: Seat Change Requires Competition"

11:00 am - 12:30 pm, 914 Gladfelter Hall

 

"Judges, Litigants and the Design of the Courts" [paper]

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm, 914 Gladfelter Hall

 

  • Monday, March 30, 2009: John Lapinski, University of Pennsylvania

"Lawmaking and Policy Substance"

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm, 914 Gladfelter Hall

 

  • Monday, March 16, 2009: Jeff Cohen, Fordham University

"The Congressional Roots of Presidential Approval" [paper]

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm, 914 Gladfelter Hall

 

"Information, Turnout and Incumbency in Local Elections "

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm, 914 Gladfelter Hall

 

"A New Partisan Voter" [ paper]

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm, 914 Gladfelter Hall

 

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