A Community of Scholars Deliberating Democracy and Enhancing Governance

Upcoming Events

November 14, 2008 at 4:00 p.m.
Maxwell Auditorium
Nancy Foner
Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
State of Democracy Lecture Series

December 5, 2008 at 4:00 p.m.
Maxwell Auditorium
Charles Murray
American Enterprise Institute
State of Democracy Lecture Series

 



CPAI in the News

Danny Hayes has a new article coming out in the summer issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly. It’s just been posted online: McKee, Seth C., and Danny Hayes. 2009. "Dixie's Kingmakers: Stability and Change in Southern Presidential Primary Electorates." Presidential Studies Quarterly 39(2): 400-417. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122305498/abstract

Soonhee Kim, associate professor of public administration, authors a new study on Local Government Capacity and Transparency in Developing Countries in the Asian region.  The study provides a management capacity framework for local governments to strengthen transparent local governance and analyzes benchmarking case studies of best practices in China and South Korea. The report has been a background document for a UN workshop held in Beijing, People's Republic of China.

The report is available from the following website:
http://www.ungc.org/pds/UNPOG_Local_Governance_Project_Report_SoonheeKim.pdf

Check out the latest edition of the Campbell Connection, Fall 2008!

Danny Hayes has a new article “Party Reputations, Journalistic Expectations: How Issue Ownership Influences Election News.” Political Communication.

Tom Keck has received the Houghton Mifflin Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, in recognition of the best journal article on law and courts published by a political scientist in 2007.  The article was “Party, Policy, or Duty: Why Does the Supreme Court Invalidate Federal Statutes?” published in the May 2007 issue of the American Political Science Review. 

Robert A. Rubinstein, Professor of Anthropology and International Relations and Campbell Institute Faculty Associate,  published the paper “Culture and Interoperability in Integrated Missions,” in the journal International Peacekeeping, volume 15, number 4. The paper is co-authored by Maxwell Alumni, Diana M. Keller and Michael E. Scherger.

Mary Tschirhart has moved to the Institute for Nonprofits at North Carolina State University.  Congratulations Mary ! mary_tschirhart@ncsu.edu

Congratulations to Arthur Brooks, on his selection as the next President of the American Enterprise Institute.  While we are sorry to see Arthur leave we are tremendously proud of his accomplishments and wish him the best of luck at AEI. 
For further information please visit The Maxwell School.

Check up on Campbell's recent events and ongoing activities in our newest edition of the Campbell Connection.

Read Campbell's latest publication, The Citizenship Inventory 2008: Practicing Values and Valuing Practice.

Thomas Keck was awarded a Sabbatical Fellowship by the American Philosophical Society, to support a year-long research leave (academic year 2008-09). During the leave, Keck will be working on a book entitled "Rights and the Right: Judicial Politics in the Culture Wars."

Danny Hayes published an article in the March issue of Political Research Quarterly. "Does the Messenger Matter? Candidate-Media Agenda Convergence and Its Effects on Voter Issue Salience."

David Van Slyke of the Campbell Institute and his colleagues Trevor Brown at Ohio State and Matt Potoski at Iowa State have recently received a research grant from the IBM Center for the Business of Government to study “System of Systems Contracting: Lessons in Contract Management from the Coast Guard’s Deepwater Project.”

In addition, David has published three articles. For more information on those articles, go to our news page.

New Books and More News....