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Time/CNN political journalist to lecture on election

2004-10-31T19:00:00-05:00

Margaret Carlson, political journalist for Time magazine and CNN, will deliver a lecture titledHow Did We Get Here? The Voters, the Media and the Unknown in Election 2004at 2 p.m. Nov. 9 (Tuesday) in the auditorium of the Hesburgh Center for International 91��Ƶ. The lecture is free and open to the public.p. The 2004-05 journalist-in-residence at Notre Dame, Carlson joined Time as its first woman columnist in January 1988 from the New Republic, where she was managing editor. She has served as Times deputy Washington bureau chief and as a White House correspondent. Her journalism career has included stints as Washington bureau chief for Esquire magazine, editor of Washington Weekly, and editor of the Legal Times of Washington.p. In addition to her duties at Time, Carlson serves as a panelist on CNN’s political programsInside PoliticsandThe Capital Gang.She is the author of the memoirAnyone Can Grow Up: How George Bush and I Made it to the White House.p. A graduate of Pennsylvania State University, Carlson earned a law degree from George Washington University.p. As journalist-in-residence, Carlson will meet with students and faculty as well as speak in classes associated with the University’s John W. Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics&Democracy.

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Political scientist publishes book on quality of democracies

2004-10-28T20:00:00-04:00

A new book co-edited by University of Notre Dame political scientist Guillermo ODonnell presents theories on how to define the quality of a democracy and the methodology for implementing acitizen auditof democratic governments.

Published by Notre Dame Press,The Quality of Democracyexplores a growing concern among policy experts and academics over the widely varying degrees of effectiveness of new democratic regimes, particularly in Latin America. It combines ODonnells theoretical study of how to determine quality in a democracy with analysis of data collected in an audit of Costa Rican citizens on the quality of democracy in their nation. ODonnell, Costa Rican researcher Jorge Vargas Cullell and Argentinean political scientist Osvaldo M. Iazzetta co-edited the volume, which includes scholarly reflections from Notre Dame faculty members Juan Méndez and Michael Coppedge and 12 others.

ODonnell, the Helen Kellogg Professor of Political Science and a fellow in Notre Dames Kellogg Institute for International 91��Ƶ, has published extensively on authoritarianism, democratization and democratic theory, including most recentlyThe (Un )Rule of Law and New Democracies in Latin America,also from Notre Dame Press.

A graduate of the National University of Buenos Aires and Yale University, ODonnell specializes in the study of democratic theory, comparative democracy and democratization, Latin American politics and society, and relationships between legal and political theory.

Contact: Guillermo ODonnell, (574) 631-7756, odonnell.1@nd.edu

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Political scholar to lecture on St. Augustine, Harry Potter

2004-10-26T20:00:00-04:00

Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicagos Divinity 91��Ƶ, will deliver a lecture titledSt. Augustine, Harry Potter and the Confrontation with Evilat 4 p.m.Nov. 3 (Wednesday) in the McKenna Hall auditorium at the University of Notre Dame.p. Part of the Arthur J. Schmitt Lecture Series, the lecture is sponsored by Notre Dames Graduate 91��Ƶ and Center for Ethics and Culture and is free and open to the public.p. Elshtain joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1995 after previously teaching at the University of Massachusetts and Vanderbilt University.She is the author of 13 books, includingJust War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent WorldandDemocracy on Trialand has co-authored or contributed to seven other books.p. The recipient of nine honorary degrees, Elshtain has been a visiting professor at Oberlin College, Yale University and Harvard University, and in 1996 was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.p. Established in 2001, the Schmitt Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from the Arthur J. Schmitt Foundation.

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