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Experts in the News--November 2005
Experts in the News--November 2005
Christopher Wolfe (Marquette University) claims that legalizing civil unions also gives a "stamp of approval to same-sex parenting."...[read the article]-November 30
John Makumbe (University of Zimbabwe) on MDC infighting and "mud slinging"...[read the article]-November 29
Stephen Skowronek (Yale University) talks with NPR Morning Edition Host Renee Montagne about his research on President Bush's tendency to take his orthodoxy from predecessor Ronald Reagan and his related article, "Leadership by Definition: First Term Reflections on George W. Bush's Political Stance," published in APSA's journal Perspectives on Politics...[read the article | listen to the NPR interview]-November 28
Juan Del Aguila (Emory University) imagines a post-Castro Cuba as favorable to non-reformists...[read the article]-November 27
Walter Dean Burnham (University of Texas -Austin [retired]) describes health insurance as "politics of excluded alternatives"...[read the article]-November 26
Bill Blomquist (Indiana University-Pursue University at Indianapolis) remarks on the political implications of a recent tax hike in Indiana...[read the article]-November 25
Allan Cigler (University of Kansas) on Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and the shrinking list of prominent Republicans willing to take her on...[read the article]-November 24
Merle Black (Emory University) discusses an increasing trend for Southern states to elect transplants to their highest offices...[read the article]-November 23
Dietmar Herz (Erfurt University) on the newly elected female Chancellor of Germany...[read the article]-November 22
Shmuel Sandler (Bar Ilan University -- Ramat Gan) comments on Ariel Sharon's recent abandonment of the Likud Party...[read the article]-November 21
Darrell West (Brown University) argues that Bush's best option for improving popularity in Iraq is to bring peace and security...[read the article]-November 20
Lance deHaven-Smith (Florida State University) on a possible new tone for the declining number of Democrats in North Florida...[read the article]-November 19
Steven Wayne (Georgetown University) states that the White House is afraid of the latest Gallup poll on "handling of Iraq"...[read the article]-November 18
Hazim al-Naimi (Mustansiriya University -- Baghdad) claims that the ideas of transparency and honesty were abandoned in Iraq...[read the article]-November 17
Mark Petracca (University of California - Irvine) defines the dates around Thanksgiving and Christmas as the time when America goes to sleep -- Petracca accounts for the decline in election news coverage...[read the article]-November 16
John Mueller (Ohio State University) discusses America's role in Iraq and relates the national mood to post-Vietnam...[read the article]-November 15
Jess Brown (Athens State University) predicts the wins by Lieutenant Governor Tim Kaine in Virginia and Senator Jon Corzine in New Jersey will energize Democratic Party activists, but will have little effect on races for governor and other offices in Alabama next year...[read the article]-November 14
Amy Fried (University of Maine) believes that Maine reflects the nation's divide over gay rights...[read the article]-November 13
Susan MacManus (University of Southern Florida) on the preparation involved in running for Congress...[read the article]-November 12
John Maltese (University of Georgia) contends that Alito's Affability plays a role in Supreme Court politics...[read the article]-November 11
Stephen Farnsworth (Mary Washington University) suggests that the low voter ternout in Virginia's latest gubernatorial election was partly due to the "nasty" election...[read the article]-November 10
J.T. Smith (San Diego State University) compares the newly elected San Diego Mayor to former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan...[read the article]-November 9
Ross Baker (Rutgers University) argues that upcoming political elections, if swept by the Republicans, could demoralize Democrats...[read the article]-November 8
John West (Discovery Institute) contends that faculty is unable to openly discuss the theory of intelligent design...[read the article]-November 7
Fred Dallmayr (Opendemocracy.net) discusses the theme of the 2005 APSA annual meeting...[read the article]-November 7
Morris Fiorina (Stanford University) calculates that America is becoming much less hyperpartisan and the country is less divided that it was a year ago...[read the article]-November 6
Hadi Semati (Tehran University) diagnoses Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's foreign policy experience as being "very, very local"...[read the article]-November 5
Corwin Smidt (Calvin College) comments on the state of the Christian Coalition after the absence of its executive director...[read the article]-November 4
Thomas Mann (Brookings Institute) claims that the recent partisan rift in Washington is the worst one in decades...[read the article]-November 3
Mohamad Kamal ("NDP Heavyweight") on his career and political future in Egypt. Kamal was a former winner of an APSA's Congressional Fellowship...[read the article]-November 2 Bruce Cain (University of California, Berkeley - Washington Center) acknowledges that Supreme Court nominee Alito is making the right move by wooing senators...[read the article]-November 2
Albert Samuels (Southern University) identifies population shifts due to Hurricane Katrina as a threat which could potentially unseat Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-LA [
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