Fall 2011 Archives
Events:
David Redlawsk, Why Iowa? The Influence of the Iowa Caucuses
on the Presidential Nomination Process — Monday, November 7
On Monday, November 7th the Department of Political Science will host
David Redlawsk,
a Professor of Political Science and Director for the Eagleton Center for Public
Interest Polling at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, who will present
Why Iowa? The Influence of the Iowa Caucuses on the Presidential Nomination Process.
Since 1972 the Iowa Caucuses have been the kickoff of the presidential nomination campaign.
This small midwestern state, with 1% of the nation's population has an outsized influence
on presidential politics as candidates and the media tromp through cornfields and cities,
wind, rain, and snow, in pursuit of the Iowa caucus goer. In this talk, David Redlawsk,
co-author of the book Why Iowa? will explain how the caucuses work, the effects of Iowa
on the nomination campaigns, and most importantly, why Iowa plays such an important and
potentially valuable role in picking American presidents.
Read bio >
Monday, November 7, 2011, 12:00 noon, Barnum 008 — Buffet luncheon served
Presented by the Department of Political Science and the Frank C. Colcord Lecture Series.
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Libya: Lessons and Prospects — Monday, September 19
Cabot Intercultural Center, Rm 702, The Fletcher School
On Monday, September 19th the Department of Political Science and
the International Relations Dept will co-host an event hosted by
The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies. There will be a
panel discussion with Professors Malik Mufti, Nadim Rouhana, William
Rugh, and Ibrahim Warde.
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2011 Constitution Day Lecture and Luncheon — Friday, September 16
Russell Muirhead, Robert Clements Associate Professor of Democracy and
Politics for the Department of Government at Dartmouth College presents:
"Is Political Partisanship Bad?"
Muirhead cuts against the grain to discuss whether today's
partisans go too far for their own good and why partisanship is both
necessary and often good for American government.
Friday, September 16, 2011, 12:00 noon, Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall
Sponsored by The Office of the President, the Department of
Political Science, & the Office of Undergraduate Education,
Tufts University.
Free lunch buffet. This event is open to the public.
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Watch video (Part 2)
In The News:
Associate Professor Kelly Greenhill has been awarded the
International Studies Association (ISA)
Best Book Award for 2011 for her single-authored book
Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy, published in 2010 as part of Cornell
University Press's Cornell Studies in Security Affairs book series.
The award will be conferred at the
2012 ISA Annual Convention in San Diego in April 2012. ISA sponsors several book awards for authors in the field of
international studies and encourages, supports and recognizes outstanding scholarship.
The October 4, 2011 edition of The Russell Sage Foundation,
News and Commentary section, highlights the praise received for
Associate Professor Deborah Schildkraut's book Americanism in the
Twenty-First Century: Public Opinion in the Age of Immigration,
an RSF-Funded Immigration Survey.
"The September issue of Perspectives on Politics includes a
review
of Deborah Schildkraut's book,
Americanism in the Twenty-First Century:
Public Opinion in the Age of Immigration. With support from the Russell
Sage Foundation, Schildkraut conducted a nationally representative survey
to provide insights about the relationships among national identity,
immigrant resentment, ethnic identity, and policy preferences. In his review,
Gary Freeman (University of Texas at Austin) calls the work an impressive
achievement."
Read More >
Full Review >
On October 4, 2011 WBUR's Deborah Becker reported After Poll
Brown's Re-Election Position Debated and asked Professor Jeffrey Berry
to weigh in.
Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren, hasn't officially announced
her candidacy for a MA U.S. Senate seat, yet she appears to be gaining
traction with voters.
Analysts' reaction to the poll Tuesday was mixed. Jeff Berry
says this election won't be just a contest against Brown. "The Democrats are
going to nationalize this election and they're not going to focus so much on
Scott Brown, who your poll shows is quite likeable," Berry said. "But [they'll]
rather ask the voters this question: ‘Do you want to help the Republicans take
over the Senate too and give the Tea Party the right to run the government?' So
they're going to run against the Tea Party, more than they're going to run
against Brown."
Read article >
USA Today reports Killings boost Obama's national
security credentials and quotes Associate Professor Richard Eichenberg.
In the October 1, 2011 issue of USA Today Richard Wolf questions whether
the killing of another major terrorist will burnish President Obama's
"credentials as a strong leader on national security" for the 2012 election, or
will it matter at all?
"If nothing else," says Richard Eichenberg, "Obama's success
removes a perennial Republican argument that Democrats are weak on national
security. In fact, It has the potential to highlight the lack of experience that
the Republicans (running for president) have on national security issues."
Read article >
NPR interviews Elizabeth D. Herman, A '10 and Political
Science major, on her ongoing 9/11 research. On September
8th NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer interviewed Elizabeth Herman regarding
her research on how the 9/11 attacks are taught differently
around the world. Herman found that "a country's relationship
with the U.S. often influences how it teaches about 9/11."
"Originally, I did set out on this project imagining that I
could come up with the right way to teach this in schools,"
Herman said. "Over time I've realized there's no way to do
that."
Full story >
Professor and Dean James Glaser quoted in a September 20, 2011
Boston Globe article on President Obama's call for a tax hike
on the richest Americans. In the September 20th issue of The Boston Globe,
Obama urges tax hike, talks of veto, Donovan Slack and Theo Emery
reported on the President's call for a "variety of tax increases on the
richest Americans." This key element of his $3 trillion deficit-reduction plan
has reignited his battle with congressional Republicans.
"With support sagging from party loyalists, his poll numbers at record
lows, and the 2012 election season beginning in earnest, the President
wants to show strong leadership that will reverberate throughout his party,"
said James M. Glaser.
"So coming out and shaking his fist at the other side a little bit—that's
not a bad thing for him to be doing right now."
In the September 15, 2011 issue of MinnPost.com, Robert Marquand
reported Denmark's election a litmus test for Europe's far-right politics
and quoted Associate Professor David Art. A 2011 study of Denmark's
media campaigns showed thousands of examples of Muslims "painted in a
poor light", helping to make Denmark the hub of the Scandinavian radical
right and signaling "the start of a long accommodation by mainstream
Scandinavian politics to halt the impact of Muslims on European culture..."
"The DPP's (Danish People's Party) winning formula, imitated by Wilders and
others, is to align itself with the main Danish party, share power and press
for results, but avoid any responsibility to govern," says Art. "They are
the prototype. They get credit for leading, but don't suffer the responsibility
of incumbency."
Full article >
World Politics Review explores Associate Professor Kelly Greenhill's
views on Foreign Policy and Fiction. On September 7, 2011 the
World
Politics Review explored the relationship between foreign policy and fiction,
including Associate Professor Greenhill's paper Unconventional Sources of
Threat Perception and Proliferation, which explores the impact fiction has
on strategic thought. "Greenhill's paper, part of a larger book project,
is one of a growing family of academic literature to study the interaction
of popular culture and state policy," Robert Farley of WPR writes.
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