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Salon Lab Cocktail Party: The 2014 Midterm Elections
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- 8003
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- 100 USD
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Item Description
Tuesday, October 28, 2014, 6 p.m.
Hosted by Lisa Walker, MBA’91, and William Rudnick, MBA’97, at DLA Piper
Cocktails and light food will be served
How will the 2014 midterm elections reflect the electorate’s widespread dissatisfaction with Congress? Which issues will have the most effect on voters in this cycle? Which groups of voters will turn out? Will Obama and Obamacare have a negative impact on democratic candidates? Join our distinguished experts for an insightful and timely discussion of the dynamics and forces influencing the 2014 elections.
Cathy J. Cohen is the David and Mary Winton Green professor of political science and the College at UChicago. She also served as the deputy provost for graduate education and the director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at UChicago. Cohen is the author of Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics (2010) and The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics (1999). She is coeditor of Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader (1997) with Kathleen Jones and Joan Tronto. The recipient of many professional awards and grants, Cohen was awarded the Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at UChicago in 2012.
John Mark Hansen is the Charles L. Hutchinson distinguished service professor in political science and a professor at the Harris School of Public Policy and serves as senior adviser to the president of the University. An authority on American politics and government, he is the author of two books and numerous articles on legislative politics, interest group politics, citizen activism, public opinion, and elections. Hansen is the recipient of several professional awards. From 2002 to 2009, he served as the chair of the board of overseers of the American National Election Studies, which has surveyed voters in every presidential election since 1952. In 2001 he was the coordinator of the task force on the federal election system for the National Commission on Federal Election Reform, cochaired by Presidents Ford and Carter.
William Howell is the Sydney Stein professor in American politics at UChicago. He holds appointments in the Harris School of Public Policy, the Department of Political Science, and the College. He has written widely on separation-of-power issues and American political institutions, especially the presidency. His recent research examines how domestic political institutions constrain the president’s ability to exercise military force abroad. His many published books include The Wartime President: Executive Influence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat (2013) (with coauthors Saul Jackman and Jon Rogowski) and Thinking about the Presidency: the Primacy of Power (with David Brent) (2013). Before coming to UChicago, Howell taught at Harvard University and University of Wisconsin.
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