Seminar Speakers, Winter/Spring 2007
The Politics & Journalism Semester |
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"Campaign Finance 'Reform'
and the First Amendment"
George Will, Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist and ABC "This Week" commentator |
"Reporting Federal Election Commission Finance Records"
Bob Biersack, FEC Press Officer, and Patricia Klein Young, Asst. Staff Dir. Public Disclosure (with Grant Slater, Univ. of Oklahoma) |
"How Ideas Matter in Politics"
Nick Gillespie, Editor-in-chief, Reason magazine
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"American Political Parties"
Terry Michael, former press secretary,
Democratic Nat. Com.,
and director, Politics & Journalism Semester |
"Voting in America:
Myths
and Realities"
Curtis Gans, director,
Center for
the Study of the American Electorate |
"Politics: A Class Discussion"
First of two wide-ranging discussions during the semester of topics addressed to date, and political current events. |
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"Political Polling and Research"
B.J. Martino, Vice President, The Tarrance Group, GOP pollsters |
"Campaign Management"
Ladonna Lee, former president, The Eddie Mahe Company, Republican consultants |
"Congress: Party,
Politics and
Policy"
Hon. Bill Frenzel, guest scholar, Brookings; former Congressman (R-MN) |
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"Strategic Communication
in Campaigns and Governance"
Terry Michael, director,
The Politics & Journalism Semester |
"Paid Media in Campaigns"
Anita Dunn, Squier Knapp Dunn Communications
(Democratic media consultant) |
"Direct Mail and
Internet Fund-Raising"
Frank O'Brien, president, O'Brien McConnell and Pearson (Democratic consultants) |
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"Major Donor Fund-Raising"
Debbie LeHardy, director, Eagles program, Republican Nat. Com. Finance Division |
"Presidential Politics:
Running for the Nomination"
Terry Michael, dir. of commun., 1988 Simon for President campaign; director, Politics & Journalism Semester |
"Political Speech:
Performance and Content
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Michael Sheehan, Sheehan Assoc., television, speech, debate coach |
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"Presidential Politics:
Facing Voters in November"
Terry Michael, director, The Politics & Journalism Semester [Romney vs. Obama: an April 5, 2007Terry Michael prediction.] |
"Politics, Journalism
and HIV/AIDS Heresy"
Christine Maggiore, founder,
Alive and Well (HIV skeptics) |
"The Libertarian vs. Evangelical
Struggle in the Republican Party "
Ryan Sager, author, "The Elephant in the Room" (with Mike Deehan, Univ. of Massachusetts) |
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"Why Democrats
Can Win Without the South"
Thomas Schaller, Univ. of Maryland political scientist and author, "Whistling Past Dixie" |
"Racial and Other Group Identity Politics:
Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Multi-Culturalism"
[a class discussion] |
"Interest Group Politics:
an Introduction"
Terry Michael, director,
The Politics & Journalism Semester (with appreciation to
Jonathan Rauch, for his great book) |
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"Interest Group Politics"
Keith Stroup, founder, NORML - Nat. Org. for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (with Aman Ali, Kent State Univ.) |
"Presidential Leadership"
Terry Michael, director,
The Politics & Journalism Semester |
"The Politics
of Justice"
Stuart Taylor, Jr., legal affairs columnist, National Journal, and Newsweek contributing editor |
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"The Politics of Foreign Policy"
Will Marshall, president,
Progressive Policy Institute |
"Economics and Business 101
for Political Reporters"
Steve Moore, editorial board, The Wall Street Journal (with Grant Slater, Univ. of Oklahoma, and Fred Love, Iowa State Univ.) |
"Politics and
Strange Bad Fellows"
Second of two wide-ranging discussions of topics addressed to date, and political current events. (Out-of-context quotes from Mr. Nixon and Mr. Brown courtesy of Terry Michael's imagination.) |
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"The State of Our
Political Process, Parties,
Press
and Leadership"
Terry Michael, director, The Politics & Journalism Semester
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