Experts in the News--August 2006

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

Jame Lopach (University of Montana) emphasizes how ethics is the issue that Republicans will have to deal with in the upcoming race ...[read article]
- August 31

John Mearsheimer (University of Chicago) highlights the degree to which selective hearing pervades US media and stiffens political discourse on Israel ... [read article] - August 31

Bruce Cain (University of California - Berkley) and Larry Sabato (University of Virginia) talk about party advantages and disadvantages for Republican House Members associating with Bush and his agenda for war in Iraq ... [read article] -- August 31

Jim Melcher (University of Maine -- Farmington) discusses the recent abandonment of John Michael's bid transforming the race into a milder one... [read article] -- August 29

Ross Baker (Rutgers University) addresses Bush's attempt to actively participate in assisting victims of Katrina in order to not be seen as a coward...[read article] - August 24

Terry Madonna (Franklin and Marshall College- Pennsylvania) illustrates the various positions that both Democrats and Republic will have to pursue in order to focus on citizens' concerns... [read article] -- August 24

Ross Baker (Rutgers University) discuses the differences between Republican campaigns amongst various states ... [read article] -- August 24

Michael Lyons (Utah State University) comments on how the president will attempt to turn an unpopular war into a political asset...[read article] - August 23

Ira Katznelson (Columbia University) will deliver his APSA Presidential Address entitled "At the Court of Chaos: Political Science in an Age of Perpetual Fear" at this year's APSA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia...[read article] - August 14

Rick Whisonant (York Technical College) advises we "make no mistake about,as we get closer to the election, you will start to see more and more evangelicals getting out the mass support"...[read article] - August 13

Bruce E. Cain (University of California) says the Connecticut Primary results show "a growing number of voters are looking for ways to send signals to the president anf for representatives who are willing to check executive power"...[read article] -August 12

Thomas F. Schaller (University of Maryland, Baltimore) gives credit to liberal bloggers for energizing the Lamont campaign, but says Lamont's win "strips away the whole canard that it's just a radical fringe that opposes the war"...[read article] - August 10

Benjamin N. Muego (Bowling Green State University) will give talk on "Geo-politics of Southeast Asia" at the University of the Philippines Mindanao...[read article] - August 9

Marcus Pohlmann (Rhodes College) believes Tennessee's 9^th District primary Independent candidate Jake Ford "is almost immediately viable..he has the Ford name and he's an African-American in a minority-majority district"...[read article] - August 8

Don Kettl (University of Pennsylvania) declares the Democrats' label of the GOP-run Congress as 'do-nothing' a charge that "adds to the drumbeat of their campaign...and so far, it's paying off"...[read article] - August 6

Karim Makdisi (American University of Beirut) explains Michel Aoun's rapid "rise of Lebanon's Napoleon"...[read article] - August 5

William Boone (Clark Atlanta University) regards Rep. Cynthia McKinney's upcoming election as "the fight of her career" and says one reason McKinney might lose on Tuesday is her focus on racial issues...[read article] -- August 4

David Fleishcer (University of Brasilia) remarks on Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's decision to hold a constitutional convention to help end corruption and inefficiency in the country's government and political-party system...[read article] -- August 3

Javier Corrales (Amherst College) comments on the important development in Cuba as Raul Castro steps into power...[read article] -- August 1