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Experts in the News-March 2006
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Experts in the News-March 2006 Political Scientists in the News

The page below lists a sample of recent commentary by political scientists in the news media

Ross Baker (Rutgers University) calls the issue of immigration "a venture with dire consequences" for the Republican Party...[read the article]-March 29

John Green (
University of Akron) argues that the evangelical Christians, who make up 25% of the population of Ohio, are underestimated in power...[read the article]-March 25  

Mark Rozell (
George Mason University) claims that President Bush has never exercised his veto because he is unwilling to confront fellow Republicans...[read the article]-March 23  

Itzhak Galnoor (Hebrew University)
states that Israel's public generally agrees with the partitioning of the biblical land of Israel - something the Likud Party has not been able to follow...[read the article]-March 18

Charles Franklin (
University of Wisconsin -- Madison) calculates President Bush's approval rating dropping 1% every 12.5 days...[read the article]-March 15

Wayne Parent (
Louisiana State University) predicts that the April 22 election in Louisiana will reveal the significance of demographics post-Katrina...[read the article]-March 14  

Aubrey Jewett (University of Central Florida)
blames President Bush's stagnant low approval rating on President Bush not addressing the underlying causes...[read the article]-March 12  

Patricio Navia (
New York University) on the importance of the United States to Chile...[read the article]-March 10

David Olsen (University of Washington)
on Senator Maria Cantwell's "bad news" - former Black Panther Aaron Dixon running for Senate...[read the article]-March 8

Larry Sabato (University of Virginia) states that the Republicans are using the Dubai issue to distance themselves from an unpopular president...[read the article]-March 7

Dean Spiliotes (New Hampshire Institute of Politics)
stresses that many Americans no longer trust Bush...[read the article]-March 6

Gary Jacobson (University of California -- San Diego) believes that the recent sentencing of former Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham is not an examplar of anything because Duke's offenses were so dramatic and "stupid"...[read the article]-March 3

John Alford (
Rice University -- Houston) poses the question, "how cognizant of ethnicity can you be in crafting a district?"...[read the article]-March 2

Peter Francia (
East Carolina University) defines undocumented workers as "the future of the labor movement" in an article outlining the McCain-Kennedy measure before Congress...[read the article]-March 1