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Presidential Politics & Campaign Issues
Washington University in St. Louis has a strong connection to modern presidential politics, having been selected to host presidential candidate debates in each election since 1992. Presidential debates were held here in 1992 and 2000; the 1996 debate scheduled to take place here was cancelled. WUSTL will host the second presidential debate of the next elections on Oct. 8, 2004. WUSTL also is home to a top-rated graduate program in political science, which includes leading experts on presidential politics and policies. Faculty with a special interest in commenting on the 2004 campaign are listed below; click on sub-topics to locate faculty with expertise on specific campaign issues.
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Linda Nicholson
Director, Women and Gender Studies Program
Expertise: feminism, gender studies, relationships, women, men, social identity
Direct contact: (314) 935-7479
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lnichols@wustl.edu
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Murray Weidenbaum
Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor
Weidenbaum is honorary chairman of the Weidenbaum Center and Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor at Washington University. He is known for his research on economic policy, taxes, government spending, and regulation. In 1981-82, he served as President Reagan's first Chairman of the Council ...
Expertise: economy, government, public policy, President Reagan, Federal Trade Deficit Review Commission, economic policy, taxes, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-5662
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moseley@wustl.edu
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Steven Fazzari
Professor of Economics in Arts & Sciences
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Fazzari, a senior scholar of the Jerome Levy Economics Institute, teaches macroeconomics. His research explores two main areas: the link between macroeconomic activity and finance, particularly the financial determinants of investment spending, and the foundations of Keynesian macroeconomics. Recent ...
Expertise: macroeconomics, deficits, tax
Direct contact: (314) 935-5632
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fazz@wueconc.wustl.edu
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Susan Appleton
Lemma Barkeloo and Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law
Susan Appleton, a nationally known expert on family law, has been a member of the Council of the American Law Institute since 1994. She has served as an adviser for the ALI's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution and as a consultant to the New Jersey Bioethics Commission, assisting that agency ...
Expertise: conflict of laws, family law, criminal law, reproductive control
Direct contact: (314) 935-6449
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appleton@wulaw.wustl.edu
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Henry W. Berger
Emeritus Professor of History
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Author of The United States, the PLO, and Stability in the Middle East, Henry Berger focuses on the history of American foreign relations, with particular interest in U.S. relations with the Middle East and Latin America. Berger, who has written on various aspects of U.S. foreign policy in the 20th ...
Expertise: 20th-century U.S. history, U.S. foreign policy, Middle East, Latin America, Vietnam War, American labor unions, trade expansion, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-8670
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hwberger@wustl.edu
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Is this any way to elect a president?
Iowa's special role in primaries may end in 2008, expert suggests
Jan. 3,
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Today's Iowa Caucuses may be the last in which the largely rural, sparsely populated and predominately white conservative Midwestern state exerts such a huge influence on the presidential nomination process, predicts Steven S. Smith, a political expert at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Universal health care - expert available for comment
Major health care proposals ignore the 'Big Leak,' says health insurance expert
Sept. 18,
2007 -- "Universal health care is getting the attention it deserves, but unfortunately, the proposals receiving the most attention ignore the 'Big Leak,'" the enormous non-benefit costs incurred by health care providers who must match their billions of billings with thousands of differing private health care plans," says Merton C. Bernstein, a founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and the Coles Professor of Law Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis. "Putting everyone under the Medicare umbrella would eliminate that leak," he says. Bernstein is available to discuss current universal health care proposals as well as the Medicare-for-all option.
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"From Hope to Higher Ground: 12 STOPS to Restoring America's Greatness"
former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee to deliver address for Assembly Series
March 16,
2007 -- Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee, whose latest book outlines his distinct views and values, will give the College Republicans address for the Assembly Series. "From Hope to Higher Ground: 12 STOPS for Restoring America's Greatness," the title of his book and his talk, will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 4 in Graham Chapel on Washington University's Danforth Campus. The event is free and open to the public.
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Negative rhetoric seen beyond campaign trail
Associated Press
and 58 others
April 28,
2008 -- Scorching rhetoric and negative campaigning aren't confined to the long presidential contest. They're spilling over into other segments of public life.
"It's partly this environment where we can't let things slide," said Wayne Fields, director of the American Cultural Studies program at WUSTL.
"There's big bucks to be made. These former leaders are going to protect their positions of expertise so they can keep selling books and keep getting speaking engagements."
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Hillary Clinton's expectations contradict
United Press International
April 2,
2008 -- The challenge facing Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is that people have contradictory expectations of women leaders. WUSTL business professor Judi McLean Parks says the character traits associated with people in leadership positions are stereotypically masculine -- being assertive or competitive.
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George W. Bush: The bygone American
The Globe and Mail (Canada)
March 31,
2008 -- All presidents in the final year of a final term are lame ducks, but the media now is mostly ignoring Bush and focusing more on the battling candidates. WUSTL economics professor Murray Weidenbaum comments.
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McCain works to answer age and health questions
Boston Globe
and 5 others
March 27,
2008 -- David Carr, clinical director of WUSTL's division of geriatrics and nutritional science, said the fact that McCain has gone five years without a melanoma recurrence is good news.
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Which Democrat Has Bigger Coattails?
CBS News.com
and 1 others
March 11,
2008 -- Democrats now hold slim majorities in the House and Senate, and the party is expected to make gains in both chambers in November.
Clinton's presence on the ticket could make it harder for Democrats in tight races, some suggest.
But Steven Smith, political science professor at WUSTL, questions the notion that Obama would necessarily give Democrats a bigger boost than Clinton would.
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Missouri vote signals complex national mood
Chicago Tribune
Feb. 7,
2008 -- Missouri has an uncanny ability to choose presidential winners, going with the loser only once in the past century (Adlai Stevenson in 1956). The state is effectively an intersection of cultural forces — urban and rural, north and south, east and west — and it periodically swings with prevailing national moods.
WUSTL American culture studies director Wayne Fields comments.
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LUNCHTIME LIVE! Today: Q & A with political analyst Steve Smith
KARE 11 News (MN)
Feb. 5,
2008 -- Steve Smith answers questions on the Minnesota caucuses for KARE 11, LUNCHTIME LIVE!. Smith is the director of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Huckabee oratory deemed 'low-key,' Obama's classic
The Boston Globe
Jan. 7,
2008 -- WUSTL political rhetoric specialist Wayne Fields is one of the experts commenting on victory speeches following the Iowa presidential caucuses.
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Pundit Says Iowa's Power to Pick the President May Be Over
All Headline News online
Jan. 7,
2008 -- This year's Iowa caucus may be the last time the largely rural, sparsely populated and predominately white conservative Midwestern state exerts a huge influence on the U.S. presidential nomination process, a political expert predicted. WUSTL political science professor Steven Smith comments.
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Democratic candidates are packing specifics into some proposals while GOP keeps powder dry
Associated Press
and 34 others
Sept. 24,
2007 -- The Democrats who are running for president are flush with policy proposals, position papers and fact sheets. The leading Republican contenders, not so much yet.
WUSTL political scientist Steven Smith comments on the strategy of the presidential candidates.
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Analysis: Bush recasts war rationale
Associated Press
and 38 others
Sept. 17,
2007 -- WUSTL English professor Wayne Fields, who is an expert on presidential rhetoric, comments on President Bush's speech on Iraq.
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Clinton getting kid glove
Chicago Daily Herald
Sept. 4,
2007 -- If the Democratic presidential primary was always going to boil down to a who-can-beat-Hillary contest, it seemed somewhat odd that opponents were letting her glide along largely unscathed.
WUSTL political science professor emeritus James Davis comments.
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A buzzword from the presidential campaign's action figures takes off
Associated Press
and 33 others
Feb. 21,
2007 -- WUSTL English and American Culture Studies professor Wayne Fields, who is an expert in political rhetoric, comments on the new buzzword in the presidential campaign -- transformational leadership.
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Bush domestic proposals address some Democratic concerns but will still be a hard sell
Associated Press
and 17 others
Jan. 24,
2007 -- WUSTL presidential rhetoric specialist Wayne Fields is one of several experts analyzing the content and presentation of President Bush's State of the Union speech.
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Bush speech lacks knockout blow: analysts
Agence France Presse -- English
and 2 others
Jan. 24,
2007 -- WUSTL political science professor Steven Smith is one of several experts analyzing the content and presentation of President Bush's State of the Union speech.
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Political pros sharpen their knives in press release wars
Associated Press State & Local Wire
and 5 others
July 26,
2006 -- Article on the increasingly common attack fare in news releases from political operatives desperate to spin news coverage to their advantage.
WUSTL political rhetoric expert Wayne Fields, who directs the American Culture Studies program, says these tactics threaten to drain the substance out of political debate.
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Northwest fate may hang on judge's decision
USA Today
and 32 others
Feb. 16,
2006 -- WUSTL law professor and labor relations expert Neil Bernstein comments on union negotiations with Northwest Airlines over whether the company could throw out contracts with pilots and flight attendants.Bernstein said the judge's main concern was helping the airline sort out its financial problems and survive — not how much the workers get paid.
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Bush has hits, misses in annual speech
CBS News online
and 32 others
Jan. 27,
2006 -- WUSTL presidential rhetoric specialist Wayne Fields comments on President Bush's annual State of the Union address and looks back on his previous speeches.
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The Right's New Deal for the Gulf Coast
BusinessWeek.com
Sept. 22,
2005 -- Article looks at the Gulf reconstruction plan announced by President Bush.
Bush's vision of stimulating business investment to lift thousands out of poverty is a far cry from classic Washington-directed pump-priming. Instead, it is something of a conservative New Deal, a radically rethought version of Big Government that bends its spending to conservative goals: lower taxes, less regulation, more local control, and bootstrap capitalism.
WUSTL social work professor Michael Sherraden comments.
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Why George Bush Is Smiling About John G. Roberts
Bloomberg.com
July 29,
2005 -- WUSTL political science professor Lee Epstein comments on the strategy behind Bush's nomination of John Roberts for the Supreme Court. Beyond the single vote Roberts would get, he surely would become a persuasive force in garnering votes for his side, given his intellect, his affability and his intricate knowledge of the sitting judges.
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