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Politics & Policy Program
Wayne Morse Center Senior Faculty Fellow Dan Tichenor coordinates the Politics and Policy Program. For 2009-10 it has three parts:
Politics and Policy Colloquia Series
"Great Expectations: Obama and the Politics of Reform" Speaker Series
Immigration Policy Study Group
Politics & Policy Colloquia Series
This series was begun in 2008 as a way for scholars from a variety of disciplines to share works-in-progress that relate to political life, public policy and current affairs. Works-in-progress are posted online prior to each colloquia and attendees are expected to read them in advance. Although authors provide brief introductions to their scholarship, most of the session is dedicated to commentary by discussants followed by free-form discussion. View past colloquia papers
 October 22, 2009
Lewis Lounge, Knight Law Center, noon
Joseph Lowndes, Political Science, “Barack Obama, the Body Politic, and the Transformation of American National Identity.”
Read work-in-progress
Lowndes is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon. He is the author of From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism (Yale University Press, 2008), co-editor of Race and American Political Development (Routledge Press, 2008), and the author of numerous articles and essays for academic and popular audiences.
 November 4, 2009
Lewis Lounge, Knight Law Center, noon
Ofer Raban, School of Law, “The Fallacy of Legal Certainty: Why Vague Legal Standards May Be Better for Capitalism, Liberalism, and Democracy.”
Read work-in-progress
Raban is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon School of Law. He is the author of Modern Legal Theory and Judicial Impartiality (London: Cavendish Press, 2003), and numerous law review articles. A former New York prosecutor who received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and his D.Phil. in legal philosophy from Oxford University, Raban teaches Constitutional Law, Criminal Investigation, and Legal Theory.
 December 4, 2009
Lewis Lounge, Knight Law Center, noon
Jessica Greene, Planning, Public Policy, and Management, “Rewarding Healthy Behaviors.”
Greene is the Director of the Masters of Public Administration Program and an Associate Professor in the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management at the University of Oregon. Her research interests focus on the impact of changes in the health care system on access and quality of care, particularly for vulnerable populations including the poor, people of color and older adults. These concerns have figured prominently in a long list of articles Greene has authored in a variety of venues, including the nation’s most prominent health policy and medical journals.
“Great Expectations: Obama and the Politics of Reform”
Speaker Series co-sponsored by Political Science
January 13, 2010
110 Knight Law Center, 7 p.m.
Sidney Milkis, University of Virginia, “Barack Obama, the Presidency, and the Enduring Quest for Reform”
February 15, 2010
110 Knight Law Center, 7 p.m.
Robin Jacobson, University of Puget Sound, “The Politics of Immigration Reform”
March 4, 2010
110 Knight Law Center, 7 p.m.
Leslie McCall, Northwestern University, "The Undeserving Rich? American Perceptions of Inequality, Opportunity, and Redistribution"
April 9, 2010
110 Knight Law Center, 3:30 p.m.
David Cole, Georgetown Law, “Civil Liberties, Military Detainees and Guantanamo”
April 29, 2010
110 Knight Law Center, 7 p.m.
Mark Peterson, UCLA, "A Century in the Making: Obama and the Era of Health Care Reform"
III. Immigration Policy Study Group:
The center will form a working group of UO faculty and community experts to discuss immigration policy in the U.S. and Oregon.
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