Law prohibiting material support threatens academic freedom, human rights. Robert A. Rubinstein, professor of anthropology and international relations, recently co-authored the article “‘Material Support’ US anti-terrorism law threatens human rights and academic freedom,” which was published in Anthropology Today, in February 2012. The federal law prohibiting the ‘provision of material support or resources’ to terrorist groups does not require proof that a defendant actually intended to support terrorism and is vague about what counts as material support.  

Grant Reeher was quoted in a front page story in the Financial Times Weekend Edition from January 21, on Congress’s reversal regarding proposed legislation to combat online piracy.  Reeher has written on legislative politics as well as politics & the Internet.  You can find the story, “Lobbying Campaign Scuttles U.S. Piracy Bills,” here: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/cab465b8-4382-11e1-9f28-00144feab49a.html#axzz1k7vKs6sF  

Walter Broadnax will deliver the Elliot Richardson Lecture at this years ASPA conference in March 2012.  The Lecture honors the ideals of public service that Richardson embodied.  Broadnax will be discussing how leaders are confronted with ethical and moral challenges while navigating their organizations through change.

Danny Hayes and Matt Guardino demonstrate that critical statements by leaders of foreign nations and officials from international organizations who appeared in the U.S. mainstream media before the invasion of Iraq caused many Democrats and independents to express opposition to the war. Our study, which relies on an analysis of more than 1,400 TV news stories and nine public opinion surveys including more than 5,700 respondents, offers the first empirical evidence that foreign elite voices in the news can shape American attitudes. Read the article here.

This week Grant is talking with Dan Grossman, a freelance environmental journalist who has frequently appeared on NPR and the BBC, and has written for the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Scientific American. He’s won a host of prestigious awards and been funded by many highly respected organizations—among them the Peabody award, the National Science Foundation, and the Fund for Investigative Journalism. In his conversation he puzzles over the enduring controversy surrounding global warming, despite the clear scientific consensus on it, and he describes some of the problems that scientists have in communicating their findings to the public. Along the way he relates some of the more interesting people he’s encountered in his adventures—the story about using sawdust to try to save glacier ice particularly interesting. 

David Van Slyke, The Maxwell School and Jesse Lecy, Georgia State University and SU Alum, have received funding from the Kresge Foundation for a second wave of survey research on nonprofit startup organizations. Van Slyke and Lecy are conducting research that is specifically interested in events that influence growth and survival during the early years of a nonprofit and during the process of incorporation and understanding which factors lead to organizational vulnerability and to organizational growth during the first three years of nonprofit operations.

Professor Soonhee Kim of the Department of Public Administration and International Affairs has been appointed as co-chair of a new Study Group on Trust and Public Attitudes organized in the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS). The IIAS located in Brussels is a worldwide platform providing a space for exchanges that promote knowledge and practices to improve the organization and operation of Public Administration since 1930. The Study Group will conduct comparative research on public trust in government and citizenship in governance through organizing conferences and publishing books and articles related to the themes. She will work with the other co-chairs of Steven Van De Walle, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Masao Kikuchi, Meiji University, Japan for the next three years.

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in U.S. Intellectual History at the University of Rome III in Rome, Italy, for the Spring 2012 semester. She will teach and advise graduate students and conduct research in Roman archives on her work in progress on the contemporary self in historical and philosophical perspective. Her work is informed by key works from antiquity to the present, including those of third-century Greek philosopher Plotinus, the focus of her research in Rome, nineteenth-century Danish theologian Søren Kierkegaard, and twentieth-century classical sociologist Philip Rieff.

This week on The WRVO Stations “Campbell Conversations” program, Campbell Director Grant Reeher interviews Tim Atseff from The Syracuse Post-Standard. Prior to his recent retirement, Tim had worked 46 years for the paper, starting off as a copy boy and working his way up through the art department to become a managing editor, before creating and editing three regional magazines published by the paper’s parent company.   

Click here  to read more about the interview and Grant’s reflections on the media.

Professor Soonhee Kim in the Department of Public Administration and International Affairs has been selected as an Associate Editor of International Features of Public Administration Review (PAR). The PAR has been the premier journal in the field of public administration research, theory, and practice for more than 60 years and it has 4000 institutional subscribers around the world.

The 11th Biennial and 20th Anniversary Public Management Research Conference, June 2-4, 2011, was hosted by The Maxwell School of Syracuse University.  Steve Kelman, Federal Computer Week, blogs about the conference, conference papers and public management practices.

David Van Slyke will be serving as the keynote speaker at the Graduate Recognition Ceremony on Friday, May 13th, at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany, State University of New York. 
 

Brooks, the New York Times columnist and author of The Social Animal, writes in his Times blog about "The Society of Surfaces" and Facebook’s effects on friendship and personal connections. While Brooks has a generally positive view of Facebook, he discusses others with a less positive view of current and emerging technologies on personal relationships, including Lasch-Quinn.

A panel on wartime contracting will be hosted, with the support of the Department of Public Administration and International Affairs and the Campbell Institute at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, on Wednesday, April 13th from 8:30 – 11:15 am in Eggers 018 and available online at http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/live  

Walter D. Broadnax has been named an Honorary Conference Chair at ASPA Conference, March 11-15, 2011.

Soonhee Kim, associate professor of public administration, co-authored a new article published in the American Review of Public Administration. The article, entitled “Exploring the Role of Social Networks in Affective Organizational Commitment: Network Centrality, Strength of Ties, and Structural Holes,” explores the social network configurations that lead to affective organizational commitment. 

February 18, 2011: Making Public Meetings Work for the Public: A forum on finding ways to make public hearings, forums and meetings more civil, constructive and productive. 

Len Burman, Moynihan Chair of Public Affairs at Maxwell and a nationally recognized expert on tax and budget issues, provides a handy synopsis of President Obama's Debt Commission recommendations, and then poses five pointed questions about our prospects for lowering

As the coach and political philosopher George Allen once said, “the future is now.”  President Obama’s debt commission has raised important and urgent questions about the nation’s financial outlook.  Please check out the report at http://www.fiscalcommission.gov/ and talk about it with your
family, friends, and neighbors.  

Professor Walter Broadnax was recently appointed to Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo’s committee on state and local government reform, joining three other Central New Yorkers, including Chancellor Nancy Cantor, who were named as part of Cuomo's transition team to recommend top-level members of his administration. Read more. 

Maxwell School public administration professor David Van Slyke have been elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA). He joins seven other Maxwell professors who have already received this distinction. New fellows will be introduced to the Academy during the 2010 Fall Meeting in November at the NAPA offices in Washington, D.C. Further information can be found at http://www.napawash.org/. 

Grant Reeher publishes a new blog, "Reeher Window."  Reeher's blog draws in part on his experiences and observations interviewing political figures, writers, and analysts for "The Campbell Conversations" on WRVO.  

It’s the biggest night of the year for virtually every newsroom in the country: Election Night. And WRVO is no exception. The station had “all hands on deck” to report the results, along with a few special guests providing analysis. More>> 

Anne Kornblut, White House correspondent for The Washington Post and author of Notes from the Cracked Ceiling, spoke as part of the State of Democracy Lecture Series on October 22 in the Maxwell Auditorium. The event is now available for viewing.

Campbell Conversations special hour-long edition features a debate-style conversation with the two candidates for the 48th State Senate district. This is one of the key races that will determine whether the state senate turns over to Republicans after November.
 

Soonhee Kim, associate professor of public administration, has published a paper “Factors Affecting Employee Knowledge Acquisition and Application Capabilities” in Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration (2010, Vol. 2 Iss: 2, pp.133 - 152).

Margaret Susan Thompson will lecture on Memory Resistance: Catholic Sisters and the Politics of Memory on Monday, October 18, 7:45 PM in the Gorecki Center, Room 204.
 

Kristi Andersen has a new book "New Immigrant Communities: Finding a Place in Local Politics."

The American Anthropological Association has awarded Robert Rubinstein The Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology. The announcement, which is attached, says in part that the prize was awarded in honor of Robert's “advocacy for the development of the anthropology of peace, security and human rights.” 
 

CNYSpeaks, a civic engagement initiative co-directed by Campbell Institute Director Grant Reeher and Campbell Associate Tina Nabatchi, hosted a citizen forum on Sept. 26 that explored strategies for building audience for arts, culture and entertainment organizations in Onondaga County.

Soonhee Kim, associate professor of public administration, has published the paper “Public Trust in Government in Japan and South Korea: Does the Rise of Critical Citizens Matter?” in the Sep/Oct 2010 issue of Public Administration Review (PAR), Volume 70, Number 5, pages 801-810. 

Walter Broadnax receives Renaissance Recognition in the area of Education, Think-Tanks, Psychology & Religion

 Walter D. Broadnax, Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, spoke about the conflicts and tasks that have been handed to the administration of President Barack Obama thus far. For more information

Campbell Conversations is an interview based public affairs that leads WRVO’s “Weekly Edition” segment.  The show is hosted by Grant Reeher, Director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

Soonhee Kim has a new book Management Strategy for Local Governments to Strengthen Transparency in Local Governance published by the United Nations Project Office on Governance. 

Was the evening news “fair and balanced” in the run-up to the Iraq War, or did it gin up support for the conflict, as many critics have claimed?  Read the entire piece.

Soonhee Kim is this year’s recipient of the Julia B. Henderson Award.  This Award given by ASPA’s Section on Women in Public Administration honors a woman who has demonstrated her commitment to international public administration in particular or to international public service in general by a lifetime of public service, to careers in international public administration and public service.

Congratulations Soonhee!

Danny Hayes has a new paper coming out in the January issue of American Politics Research. The paper, coauthored with Mathieu Turgeon, examines how candidate polarization—the growing ideological divide between Republican and Democratic politicians—affects the way voters process information and make their choices during campaigns. Our findings suggest that increasing elite polarization may make citizens more resolute in their preferences and more resistant to new information that challenges their existing beliefs.

The White House’s Office of Management and Budget recently issued a policy memorandum on how federal agencies are to undertake human resource planning for their contracting and acquisition workforce.  The plan cites a paper co-written by David M. Van Slyke of The Maxwell School of Syracuse University, Trevor Brown, associate director for Academic Affairs and Research at the Glenn School and Matthew Potoski of Iowa State University.  The paper Managing Public Service Contracts: Aligning Values, Institutions, and Markets was published in 2006. For memorandum.

In an opinion piece written by Grant Reeher and Tina Nabatchi in the Post Standard, the authors discuss the results of a survey they used to assess the results of the recent CNYSpeaks mayoral forum. For more information on the project, see cnyspeaks.com. Read more.

Dean Mitchel Wallerstein announced today that Professor Grant Reeher has been named the new director of the Maxwell School’s Alan K. Campbell Public Affairs Institute.

Danny Hayes has a new paper published in the American Journal of Political Science. The article shows that voters who are redistricted into new congressional districts are significantly less likely to vote in the subsequent U.S. House election.

Soonhee Kim has been invited to be a speaker at the International Conference on “Creativity, the Power to Change the World” held in Seoul, South Korea on August 12, 2009.

 Danny Hayes has a new article published in Political Behavior. The paper examines the conventional wisdom that television has “personalized” voting behavior in American presidential elections by encouraging citizens to cast ballots on the basis of candidate image and personality.

Danny Hayes has a new article, "Dixie's Kingmakers: Stability and Change in Southern Presidential Primary Electorates," coming out in the summer issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly.

Soonhee Kim, associate professor of public administration, authors a new study on Local Government Capacity and Transparency in Developing Countries in the Asian region.

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

Thomas 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.