Elections 2008: A Dialogue with James Campbell and James Lindsay
Thursday, 09 Oct 2008 at 7:30 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Two prominent political scientists will analyze the upcoming presidential and congressional elections. James Campbell is professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Buffalo. He served previously as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow and as a program director at the National Science Foundation. He is the author of The Presidential Pulse of Congressional Elections, Cheap Seats, and The American Campaign and coeditor of Before the Vote. James Lindsay is the Tom Slick Chair for International Affairs and director of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a leading authority on the American foreign policymaking process and the domestic politics of American foreign policy. He was previously the vice president, director of studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations.Cosponsored By:
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Political Science
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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