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| Dr. Arnold Fleischmann is featured on the editorial page of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution regarding 'constitutional officers.' |
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 The Graduate School's Dean's Award was established to assist graduate students in
defraying the cost of doing research for their dissertation or thesis and to help them complete their degree. The Department of Political Science's graduate program has three winners of this distinguished award in 2008: Henrik Shatzinger (Political Science), Ross Worden (International Affiars), and Johannes Karreth (International Affairs). Congratulations to all three. |
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| The department would like to recognize Dr. Teena Wilhelm and Dr. John Maltese for being award winning teachers. Dr. Wilhelm is the 2008 recipient of the Honors Program J. Hatten Howard, III teaching award, while Dr. Maltese is the 2008 Lothar Tresp Oustanding Honors Professor Award. |
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| The SPIA Teaching Award Committee has selected PADP's Vicky Wilkins and our own Damon Cann as co-winners of the 2007-2008 SPIA Award for Excellence in Teaching. |
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 Congratulations to Ph.D. student Laura Moyer. Laura has been elected to Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities. She has accepted the Public Law position in the Department of Political Science at LSU. She will begin teaching at LSU in the Fall 2008. |
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| Congratulations to the Carter Conference Planning Team. UGA has won an Award of Excellence at the District III level of the CASE Award (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) for Institutional Special Events. UGA was pitted against other institutions in the Southeast. We are now entered in the Grand Prize competition. Winners will be announced at the District III Conference in Atlanta on February 19. Political Science's Dr. John Maltese served as director of the three day conference. |
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| Dr. Audrey Haynes discusses Georgia's February 5th presidential primary in the AJC. |
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| Dr. Jason Berggren is quoted by Shankar Vedantam in the Washington Post regarding presidential frontrunners. |
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Assistant Professor Michael Crespin and Duke University's Dave W. Rohde have won the Patrick J. Fett Award for the best paper on the scientific study of Congress and the Presidency for their paper “Dimensions, Issues, and Bills: Appropriations Voting on
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 Dr. Jamie Carson recently published a paper in the American Political Science Review entitled "Candidate Quality, the Personal Vote, and the Incumbency Advantage in Congress." The paper uses historical elections data to systematically examine why incumbents tend to perform better at the polls than do their opponents. The results suggest that candidate quality is an important piece of the puzzle in understanding the historical development of the incumbency advantage in American politics. |
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 Students of American politics are accustomed to thinking of members of Congress as recipients of campaign contributions. This provocative new study by Dr. Damon M. Cann shows that incumbent members of Congress are increasingly active as contributors to their parties and other political candidates. These contributions from members of Congress have grown exponentially in the last ten years to finance the fierce biannual battle for majority control of Congress.
Sharing the Wealth distinguishes itself from many campaign finance studies by going beyond a mere description of this novel source of campaign funds to demonstrate several important consequences of the growing phenomenon of member contributions. Cann develops an exchange theory in which member contributions serve as the currency of exchange in deals between party leaders and members of Congress. These arrangements are designed to advance the ambitions of individual members of Congress while also ultimately strengthening political parties. Using both quantitative methods and case studies, he provides solid evidence that these exchanges influence the voting behavior of rank-and-file legislators and determine who obtains powerful leadership positions in Congress. Rich in details, Sharing the Wealth is the most complete examination of member-to-member and member-to-party contributions available, and makes the important connection between these contributions and the growing strength of political parties in the U.S. Congress.
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| Dr. Audrey Haynes and Brian Pitts, MA student in political science, will be participating in the Reforming the Presidential Nomination Process conference to be held at the University of Iowa in January of 2008 . The conference is coordinated by Dr. Peverill Squire and will result in a special issue of P.S.: Political Science or Perspectives on Politics. |
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The essential guide to Georgia government and politics, by associate professor Arnold Fleischmann and Carol Pierannunzi, professor of political science at Kennesaw State University, is now updated and expanded.
In keeping with the state's major demographic upheavals of recent decades, Georgia politics is an interesting—and sometimes volatile—mix of tradition and change. In contrast to the state's rural past, most Georgians now live in cities or suburbs, and more than 40 percent of the population was born outside the state. However, religion and race remain issues that politicians ignore at great peril, and the state still fares poorly in measures of poverty, education, and voter turnout.
Politics in Georgia uses a comparative framework to examine four major topics: the foundations of contemporary Georgia politics, political participation, major political institutions, and selected public policies.
Throughout, Politics in Georgia compares the state with the federal government and the other forty-nine states, as well as with earlier periods of Georgia's political development. The result is a thorough, up-to-date resource on Georgia's dynamic political system.
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In Memoriam: Susette M. Talarico 1946-2007 |
