Department to Celebrate 75th Anniversary
The year 2012 marks the 75th Anniversary of the Department of Political Science at USC. The Department plans to mark this milestone with a day of celebration on September 14 and a fund-raising campaign. The day of celebration will start off with afternoon panels featuring distinguished alums, followed by a reception and dinner at the Inn at USC for the panelists and other invited guests. The featured dinner speaker will be Dr. Don Fowler, a former faculty member of the Department and a current member of its Partnership Board, as well as a well-known political consultant and a very popular Adjunct Instructor on the USC campus.
The alumni panelists will discuss how their careers have been affected by their experiences and education in the Department. One of the panels will consist of alums who earned their undergraduate or doctoral degree in the Department, and who have gone on to academic careers in Political Science. This panel, chaired by Dr. Lois Duke, currently at Georgia Southern University, will include: Dr. Ken Benoit (London School of Economics), Dr. Stefanie Lindquist (U Texas), Dr. Shannon Blanton (U Memphis), Dr. Mary Ellen Guy (U Colorado), and Dr. Jamie Morgan (U Georgia). A second panel will feature alums who have followed varied career paths. Chaired by Partnership Board member Dr. Steve Dillingham, currently Director of the Transportation Safety Institute in the US Department of Transportation, it will include: Otis Rawl (President and CEO of the SC Chamber of Commerce), Thad Westbrook (of Columbia’s Nelson Mullins law firm and a USC Board of Trustees member), Dr. Fred Carter (President, Francis Marion University), Dr. Janine Davidson (Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Plans and a faculty member at George Mason University), and (tentatively) Steve Benjamin (Mayor, City of Columbia).
SC Republican Primary Panel Discussion
The Department and College of Arts and Sciences are sponsoring a panel discussion on the SC Republican Primary on January 18 at 7pm in Gambrell Auditorium. Panelists will include Daniel Balz, Political Correspondent for The Washington Post, Thomas Edsall, the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School, and Jeffrey Zeleny, Political Correspondent for The New York Times. The panel will be moderated by Professor Laura Woliver of the Department and Women’s and Gender Studies.
James Fowler to deliver 2nd Annual Pi Sigma Alpha Lecture
“Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives”"
The USC chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society, is pleased to announce a public lecture featuring Professor James Fowler of the University of California, San Diego. Fowler is Professor of Political Science in the Division of Social Sciences and Professor of Medicine in the Medical Genetics Division at UCSD, and was recently named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
Professor Fowler is the author of an award-winning book on social networks with Nicholas Christakis (Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives) and has appeared on Stephen Colbert’s program on Comedy Central to discuss his work. His research is situated at the nexus of the natural and social sciences, and involves social networks, behavioral economics, evolutionary game theory, political participation, and genopolitics (the study of the genetic basis of political behavior). Professor Fowler's work has appeared in journals including Nature, Science, New England Journal of Medicine, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Politics.
The lecture – to be delivered on Wednesday, February 8 at 7pm in the Gambrell Hall Auditorium (Room153) – is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by USC’s Gamma Chi Chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national office of Pi Sigma Alpha, the Department of Political Science, and the College of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Harvey Starr Elected to Presidency of ISA
Distinguished Professor Harvey Starr, the Dag Hammarskjold Professor in International Affairs, has been elected to the position of President-elect of the International Studies Association. Harvey, who has been a member of the Department since 1989 and served as its Chair from 1998-2006, will serve as President-elect of the ISA for one year (2012-13), and then as President for one year (2013-14). The last member of our faculty to earn this prestigious honor was retired Distinguished Professor Charles Kegley, and it means that this Department and University has now had two Presidents of this prominent, international, professional association. Harvard and Ohio State have each produced 3 ISA Presidents, and only five other schools have produced 2 (the Universities of Southern California, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, and George Washington University).
The International Studies Association is the most respected and widely known scholarly association in the broad field of international studies, with a membership of 5,000 representing 80 countries across the globe. Founded in 1959, ISA creates communities of scholars within the broad field of international studies by dividing into six geographic regions and twenty-three section groups, providing opportunities to scholars to exchange ideas and research with local colleagues and within specific subject areas.
Distinguished Professor Keith Bybee to Speak at Constitution Day Event
As in years past, the Department has organized a Constitution Day lecture for the University and general public. The speaker this year is Professor Keith J. Bybee, the Paul E. and the Hon. Joanne F. Alper ’72 Judiciary Studies Professor at Syracuse University. Professor Bybee is Director of the Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media, and holds tenured appointments in both the College of Law and the Maxwell School’s Political Science Department at Syracuse. His research and teaching interests include constitutional law, the judicial process, legal theory, political philosophy, the politics of race and ethnicity, American politics, and the media. He has published three books and written articles appearing in a wide variety of academic journals.
Professor Bybee will speak at the Law School Auditorium at 7pm on September 15, on public skepticism and the American courts. The title of the talk is “All Judges Are Political—Except When They Are Not: Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of Law.” Professor Bybee will describe in this talk how we live in an age when many citizens regard judges as both fair interpreters of the law and as activists legislating from the bench. Although this pervasive public skepticism raises fears of institutional crisis or of the loss of legitimacy for our judicial branch of government, Professor Bybee argues that such skepticism is actually an expression of how our legal system ordinarily functions. American courts, Bybee contends, not only survive under suspicions of judicial hypocrisy, but actually depend on them.
The lecture is open to the public and is sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the School of Law, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Department.
Prof. Michael Ward to Speak at PSRW
Professor Michael D. Ward of Duke University will be presenting a paper on the “Evolution of the World Trade Network” at the Department’s Political Science Research Workshop on Friday April 8, from 3:30 to 5:00 pm in room 250 of Gambrell Hall. Professor Ward is Professor of Political Science at Duke, and he has published widely in the areas of international trade and conflict, political geography, and political methodology. He is co-author (with Kristian Gleditsch) of Spatial Regression Models (Sage, 2008). He is also the author or co-author of more than 90 journal articles, including articles in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Political Analysis, and Political Geography. Prior to joining the faculty at Duke University, Professor Ward was Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Distinguished Stanford Political Scientist to Discuss
2010 Elections
Inaugural Pi Sigma Alpha Lecture at USC
Professor Morris P. Fiorina, a leading scholar of American politics, will present the inaugural Pi Sigma Alpha lecture at USC on April 14 at 7pm in Lumpkin Auditorium (8th floor, Moore School of Business). The topic will be “The Road to (and from) the 2010 Elections.”
Fiorina is the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. His research focuses on American national politics—particularly public opinion, elections, and the quality of representation. The third edition of his groundbreaking book Culture War: The Myth of a Polarized America (with Samuel J. Abrams and Jeremy C. Pope) is due to be published later this year. Professor Fiorina has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and served as chairman of the Board of Overseers of the American National Election Studies from 1986 to 1990.
Pi Sigma Alpha is the national political science honor society. The Gamma Chi chapter at the USC-Columbia campus was chartered in 1959. This event is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by Pi Sigma Alpha, the Department of Political Science, and the College of Arts and Sciences. For more information, email finocchi@sc.edu.
Revolution in the Middle East?
USC Panel of Experts to Discuss
The Departments of Political Science and International Business, and the Walker Institute of International and Area Studies, are joining together to sponsor a Panel composed of USC faculty experts to discuss the current unrest and related developments in Middle Eastern and North African nations on Wednesday evening, March 23. The Panel members are expected to address a variety of questions, including whether there really is a democratic revolution brewing in some or all of these nations, what factors seem to be driving the current unrest, and what the consequences of these events may be for these nations, these regions, and the international community.
Entitled “Revolution in the Middle East?” the panel discussion will begin at 7pm, on March 23, in the Business Administration Building Room 005. It is free and open to the public. The Panel will be moderated by Gerald McDermott, a faculty member in the International Business Department of the Moore School of Business and author of Embedded Politics: Industrial Networks and Institutional Change in Post-Communism. Other participants include Political Science Professor Shahrough Akhavi, author of The Middle East: The Politics of the Sacred and Secular; Waleed El-Asary, a faculty member in the Department of Religious Studies whose most recent publications include a co-edited volume on Muslim and Christian Understanding: Theory and Application of “A Common Word”; Charles Bierbauer, Dean of the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies and a former Pentagon Correspondent for CNN; Amy Mills, a faculty member in the Department of Geography and an urban and cultural geographer with expertise in the Middle East; and Distinguished Political Science Professor Harvey Starr, an expert on international relations and co-editor of Dealing with Failed States.
Professor Jeff Gill to Speak at PSRW
Professor Jeff Gill will present two talks on “Non-Parametric Methods for Social Science Research” on Friday March 18 from10:30 to 11:45AM and from 3:30 to 5:00PM. The morning session focuses on basic approaches to non-parametric research techniques, while the afternoon session focuses on advanced non-parametric techniques. Both talks will be held in Gambrell 250. Professor Gill is Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis and the Director of Washington University’s Center for Applied Statistics. He is also President of the Society for Political Methodology, and a fellow of the Society for Political Methodology. His current research is focused on projects such as Bayesian hierarchical models, Markov chain Monte Carlo theory, bureaucratic behavior in national security agencies, and issues in political epidemiology. Professor Gill is the author of Bayesian Methods for the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Chapman & Hall/CRC), which is the leading Bayesian text for the discipline. He has published articles in the Journal of Politics, Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Electoral Studies, and Political Research Quarterly.
Eisenhower Program returns for Panel on Afghan War
Members of the Eisenhower Program from the U. S. Army College will return to the Department this March in order to participate in a panel discussion on the war in Afghanistan. Members of the Program, who last visited the campus one year ago, are military officers studying at the Army College under the direction of Captain William Davis. Captain Davis is the Director of National Security Studies at the College, which is located in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.
The Panel event is entitled “The Afghan War: Policies, Problems, Prospects,” and is scheduled for Tuesday evening, March 22, at 7pm in Room 005 of the Business Administration Building. Four of the military officers will participate in the panel, together with American foreign policy expert, and Political Science Professor, Jerel Rosati. The event , sponsored by the Department and the College of Arts and Sciences, is free and open to the public.
The Eisenhower Program members will also engage students in political science classes and other venues during their two day visit.
Prof. Charles Shipan to Speak at PSRW
The Political Science Research Workshop initiates a full Spring semester schedule with guest speaker Professor Richard Pacelle from Georgia Southern University on Friday, February 4th at 3:30 PM in Gambrell Hall 250. Professor Pacelle will present the paper "An Interpretive Soliloquy or a Continuing Colloquy: Decision Making on the Modern Supreme Court." Professor Pacelle received his doctoral degree from Ohio State University. His research interests include judicial politics, public law, American politics and research methods. He is the author of three books, including The Transformation of the Supreme Court’s Agenda: from the New Deal to the Reagan Administration (1991) and Between Law and Politics: The Solicitor General and the Structuring of Race, Gender and Reproductive Rights Policy (2003). In addition, Professor Pacelle has published articles in Presidential Studies Quarterly, American Politics Research and Judicature.
The PSRW has seven other speakers scheduled for the semester. Please visit the website at http://www.cas.sc.edu/poli/psrw/calendar.html to see our complete calendar.
Prof. Richard Pacelle to Speak at PSRW
The Political Science Research Workshop initiates a full Spring semester schedule with guest speaker Professor Richard Pacelle from Georgia Southern University on Friday, February 4th at 3:30 PM in Gambrell Hall 250. Professor Pacelle will present the paper "An Interpretive Soliloquy or a Continuing Colloquy: Decision Making on the Modern Supreme Court." Professor Pacelle received his doctoral degree from Ohio State University. His research interests include judicial politics, public law, American politics and research methods. He is the author of three books, including The Transformation of the Supreme Court’s Agenda: from the New Deal to the Reagan Administration (1991) and Between Law and Politics: The Solicitor General and the Structuring of Race, Gender and Reproductive Rights Policy (2003). In addition, Professor Pacelle has published articles in Presidential Studies Quarterly, American Politics Research and Judicature.
The PSRW has seven other speakers scheduled for the semester. Please visit the website at http://www.cas.sc.edu/poli/psrw/calendar.html to see our complete calendar.
USC Mock Trial Team Wins Major Tournament
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Senior political science major Amanda Eskridge led a team of 25 USC Arts and Sciences students to victory in the Mid-South Invitational mock trial tournament held at Middle Tennessee State University this past weekend (November 13-14). The team, long coached by Political Science Distinguished Professor Donald Songer, bested 65 other teams from throughout the South and Midwest to win the grand championship of the Mid-South Tournament. The USC squad posted a perfect 8-0 record in route to winning the championship. The Mid-South is among the oldest and most prestigious mock trial tournaments in the country, and with 66 participating undergraduate teams, it is also the largest. In addition to winning the team championship, the USC intercollegiate mock trial team came away with top individual honors. Senior Amanda Eskridge won the award as the best attorney in the tournament. Members of the winning USC team are:
Monica Bracey, Junior Political Science major from Greer, SC
Amanda Eskridge, Senior Political Science Major from Columbia, SC
Michelle Fantone, Senior political Science major
John Gulledge, Junior English major from Columbia, SC
Matt Kneece, senior Political Science major from Lexington, SC
Heath Lanier, 4th year Biological Sciences student, Hometown: Blythewood, SC |
Professor Hillygus to Speak at PSRW
Professor Sunshine Hillygus will be presenting a paper to interested students and faculty on “The Dynamics of Primary Vote Choice in the 2008 Presidential Election” at 3:30 on November 5 as a guest of the Department’s PSRW (Political Science Research Workshop). Dr. Hillygus is Associate Professor of Political Science at Duke University. She has published widely on the topics of American political behavior, campaigns and elections, survey methods, public opinion, and information technology and politics. From 2003-2009, she taught at Harvard University, where she was the Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government and founding director of the Program on Survey Research. Professor Hillygus is co-author of The Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in Political Campaigns (Princeton University Press, 2008) and The Hard Count: The Social and Political Challenges of the 2000 Census (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006).
Prof Craig Boardman to speak at PSRW
Professor Craig Boardman will present a talk on “Organizational capital in boundary-spanning collaborations: internal and external approaches to structure and authority in public-private cooperative research centers" to interested graduate students and faculty at the Political Science Research Workshop on Thursday, Oct. 21 (3:30pm in Gambrell 152). In his talk, Professor Boardman will describe new modes of organization and management for the implementation of science and technology policies at the federal and state levels.
Professor Boardman is an Assistant Professor in the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University. He received his Ph.D. in Public Policy from the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Professor Boardman’s research occurs at the intersection of science and technology policy, organizational behavior, and public human resources management. He assesses the organizational and institutional attributes of federal and state public policies for scientific and technical innovation and their impacts on research collaboration, productivity, and broader impacts. More generally, Boardman assesses the role that external structures and authorities play in collaborative governance networks. Boardman holds an adjunct appointment at the Science and Technology Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.
Panel to Discuss November Elections
Members of the faculty of the Department of Political Science and state political activists will provide a Panel discussion on the 2010 November elections on Tuesday evening, October 19, at the University of South Carolina. Donald Fowler, an adjunct faculty member in the Department, and a former South Carolina State and also National Democratic Party Chair, will lead the Panel discussion. The Panelists, including Political Science Professors Andrea McAtee, Bob Oldendick, and Todd Shaw, will discuss the South Carolina Gubernatorial and Senatorial elections, other South Carolina races, and national politics. The event is being organized and hosted by the Department of Political Science in association with the Professional Society for International Studies. The event will take place in Gambrell Hall Auditorium, starting at 7 pm. It is free and open to the public.
MPA Student Association to meet with Columbia Mayor Benjamin
Mayor Steve Benjamin (with Andrew Dorsey, President (L) and Jennifer McCormack, Vice-President (R)) |
The MPA Student Association, led by MPA student President Andrew Dorsey, has arranged a luncheon with Mayor Stephen Benjamin of the City of Columbia for Thursday, October 14. The luncheon is an annual event at which MPA students and faculty are able to interact informally with the Mayor, as well as raise with him governance and related questions and issues in a more formal Q&A session. This year’s event will be held at the Palmetto Room in the Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce building.
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Prof. Jason Roberts to speak at PSRW
Jason Roberts, an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will be giving a presentation on legislative agenda setting and the role of the Rules Committee in the House of Representatives at the Department’s Political Science Research Workshop for interested faculty and graduate students on Friday October 8 (3:30 in Gambrell Hall Room 250). Professor Roberts received his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis and was a faculty member at the University of Minnesota prior to his current position at UNC. His research focuses on American political institutions, in particular the U. S. Congress. His work also deals with legislative voting, congressional elections, the politics of Supreme Court appointments, and political history.
POLIFEST set for October 20 & 26
The Department’s annual POLIFEST events have been scheduled for Wednesday, October 20, and Tuesday, October 26. On October 20, from 10am to 1pm, immediately outside Gambrell Hall (on the plaza), the Department will provide information about programs and opportunities for students interested in political science or international studies, space for other organizations and groups of interest to students, as well as election information, free food, and even free raffle tickets. And on October 26, in Gambrell Hall Room 404 from 3:30-4:30, the Department has planned a panel to discuss for interested students internship and graduate school opportunities. For further information, please contact Political Science Professor and Undergraduate Director Todd Shaw (shawtc@mailbox.sc.edu).
Department Welcomes New Faculty
The Department is very pleased to welcome
four new professors in the fields of international relations,
comparative politics, methods, and public policy and administration.
Dr. Holger Kern, Assistant Professor, focuses on both comparative
politics and quantitative methods. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell
University in 2008, after pursuing studies at the London School of
Economics, Brown, Harvard, and other institutions. Dr. Kern will be
serving as a postdoctoral Associated Faculty member at Yale
University’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies through the
2010-2011 academic year, where he is engaged in a variety of
collaborative research projects.
Dr. Amanda Licht, Assistant Professor, received her
Ph.D. in international relations and methods at the University of Iowa.
She has recently published an article in the Journal of Conflict
Resolution, and is currently working on several more articles,
including one on event history analysis for the journal Political
Analysis.
Dr. Ellen Moule, Assistant Professor, received her
Ph.D. from the University of California San Diego, where she focused on
American Politics, including public policy and Congress, and also
comparative politics. Ellen has pursued and published innovative work
in the area of state tax and expenditure laws and policies.
Dr. Xuhong Su, Assistant Professor, holds a law degree from China as well as a Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Georgia. She has taught at the National University of Defense Technology in China, and has numerous publications in both Chinese and U.S. journals. Her specializations include human resources and public and nonprofit management, as well as workforce and gender policy.
Constitution Day Speaker slated for Sept 16
As part of the University's celebration of Constitution Day, Professor Michael Lienesch of the University North Carolina at Chapel Hill will present a talk on "The Problem of Church and State: Why the Constitution Can't Solve It." Scheduled for Thursday evening, September 16 at 7pm in Gambrell Hall Auditorium, the event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the University Provost's Office, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Law School, as well as by this Department. Professor Lienesch is a member of the Political Science Department at UNC. He is the author of numerous books, articles, and essays, most of which focus on religion and politics, particularly religious fundamentalism and political conservatism, in American history, politics and culture. His most recent book is entitled In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolutuion Movement (2007). Professor Lienesch has been a fellow of the National Humanities Center and has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Lilly Endowment, and the Earhart Foundation. He has won a number of teaching awards, and in 2010 was named University Professor of Distinguished Teaching at UNC.
Professor Lienesch's presentation will recognize that
the relationship between church and state is one of most contested
issues in American law and politics, and the main goal of the
talk will be to explain why this is the
case. Focusing on the First Amendment, he will trace
ideas of religious freedom from the creation of the Constitution to
today, using some of our most famous court cases to show why Americans
have had so much trouble finding the right role for religion in our
public life. In concluding, he will make some predictions
about the future of this perennial problem, and also offer some
suggestions about how we might begin to think more carefully
about it.
Professor Lienesch will also be presenting a paper to the Department's
graduate students and faculty at a session of the Department's
Political Science Research Workshop on the following day, September 17,
at 1:30. The paper is entitled "Antievolutionism and the
Transformation of the Social Sciences."
Reception and Orientation Slated for August 18
Orientation for new graduate students, and Reception for new graduate students and faculty, slated for August 18.
On Wednesday, August 18, the Department will host its Orientation programs for new graduate students. Students entering the MAIS and PhD Programs will hear presentations by the faculty, meet with current graduate students, learn more about their chosen profession, and be introduced to useful campus resources. Orientation for students entering the MPA Program will include an introduction to campus resources, as well as panels led by current MPA Student Association leaders, several recent graduates, and community leaders associated with the program. These events have been organized and will be led by Graduate Director David Darmofal, and by MPA Director Mark Tompkins.
At the conclusion of the day, from 5 to 7, the Department will sponsor its annual Reception, welcoming the new students, and also its new faculty and the beginning of a new academic year. All graduate students, their spouses or significant others and children, and all faculty, are invited.
Memorial Service for Betty Glad
A great many friends and colleagues attended a memorial service on Sunday, August 8, to remember and celebrate the life of Emerita Professor Betty Glad. Betty joined the Department in 1989, and, at her retirement in 2008, held the Olin D. Johnston Professor of Political Science Distinguished Chair. She enjoyed a long and very successful career. She was an accomplished scholar, a committed teacher and influential mentor for many undergraduate and graduate students, and a leader in the profession. She earned her PhD in 1962 at the University of Chicago, and taught for many years at the University of Illinois before coming to Carolina. She was an expert on the American Presidency and on U.S. foreign policy and the author of many scholarly articles and books, including most recently An Outsider in the White House: Jimmy Carter, His Advisors, and the Making of American Foreign Policy (Cornell University Press, 2009).
Betty’s leadership in the profession went well beyond scholarship, and included in particular advancing the cause of women in the discipline. She was a pioneer and role model for many women, and she was one of the first women in the discipline to attain national and international stature. She won many awards for her scholarship and leadership, including the Frank D. Goodnow Award of the American Political Science Association for a lifetime of contributions and service to the discipline, and the Harold Lasswell Award of the International Society for Political Psychology for a lifetime of outstanding contributions to political psychology. She served as President of the International Society for Political Psychology, President of the Presidency Research Section of the American Political Science Association, and Vice-President of the American Political Science Association. As a member of this Department and the Carolina community, Betty served many positions, nurtured many students, and collaborated with many colleagues. She will be missed.
Iraqi Delegation Visit
A delegation of Iraqi local public officials, including
the City Manager of Baghdad, visited the Department on July 21, and
heard from Professor Neal Woods an informal lecture on U. S.
intergovernmental relations. The delegation, of five Iraqis and
three interpreters, were in the country as part of the State
Department’s Council for International Visitors program, and its trip
to the Department, and to South Carolina more generally, was organized
by the local Palmetto Council for International Visitors. As
local officials operating in the evolving Iraq political system, the
delegates were particularly interested to learn about intergovernmental
practices and problems in the U.S. Professor Woods accordingly
provided an overview of federalism in the U.S., accounts of current
intergovernmental policies and practices, problems and controversies,
and a lively Q&A at the conclusion of his remarks.
Fall 2009 Constitution Day Lecture
For the past several years, the Department, with support from the Provost's Office, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Law School, has organized and sponsored a Constitution Day evening event open to the public and featuring a guest speaker. Always on September 17, Constitution Day is a national holiday intended to honor the principles of the American constitution and governmental system. This year, the Department has invited Professor James Read, the Joseph P. Farry Professor of Public Policy at the College of St. Benedict and St. John's University in Minnesota, to be the speaker. His talk, etntitled "What Kind of Constitution? James Madison, John c. Calhoun, and the Problem of Majority Rule," will be held at 7pm in the Law School Auditoriumm. A reception with light refreshments will follow. The public is invited. James Read has published three books on American political thought and on democratic politics, most recently "Majority Rule versus Consensus: The Political Thought of John C. Calhoun" (University Press of Kansas, 2009).
Professor Read will also present a talk to faculty and graduate students on Friday, September 18, at the Political Science Research Workshop, on "John C. Calhoun's Consensus Theory and Its Contemporary Echoes." This talk will discuss contemporary consensus theorists and consensus-like practices in places like Northern Ireland and the former Yugoslavia.
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