February 5, 2001 – Public Lecture
Christopher Docksey: “Gender Equality in the European Union”
Christopher Docksey, Public Lecture, European Union, Legal Advisor to the European Commission’s Legal Service
February 6, 2001 – Public Lecture
Christopher Docksey: “Global Challenges: the EU, the US, and the Internet”.
Christopher Docksey, Public Lecture, European Union, Legal Advisor to the European Commission’s Legal Service
February 27, 2001 – Public Lecture
Charles O. Jones: “The Presidential Transition into a 50-50 Government”
Charles O. Jones, Public Lecture, Congressional and Presidential Scholar, University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Brookings Institution
February 27, 2001 – First Tuesdays Lecture Series
David Nice: “Political Leadership: The Warrior Model”
David Nice, Professor, WSU Political Science Department, “New” First Tuesdays Lecture Series sponsored with the WSU Chapter of the Pi Sigma Alpha Honorary Society.
March 27, 2001 – Foreign and Security Policy Brownbag Series
Panel discussion: “U.S. Foreign and Security Policy on Iraq”.
Colonel Chet Herbst, “New” Foreign and Security Policy Brownbag Series, Professors Martha Cottam (Political Science), Thomas Preston (Political Science), and Colonel Chet Herbst (Air Force ROTC) will select speakers.
April 3, 2001 – First Tuesdays Lecture Series
Susan Dente Ross: “Paying the Price of Free Speech: Where Have All the Protesters Gone?
Susan Dente Ross, Assistant Professor, WSU Murrow School of Communications, First Tuesdays Lecture Series, sponsored with the WSU Chapter of the Pi Sigma Alpha Honorary Society.
April 5, 2001
“Exit Polls in the 2000 Presidential Election: The Lessons of Election Night” with Kathy Frankovic
Kathy Frankovic, Director of Surveys and Producer for CBS News, presents “Exit Polls in the 2000 Presidential Election: The Lessons of Election Night”,
April 5, 2001 – Media and Society Lecture
Don Dillman: “Why the Butterfly Ballot turned Gore Votes into Buchanan Votes”
WSU Professor Rural Sociology and Sociology presents “Why the Butterfly Ballot turned Gore Votes into Buchanan Votes”.
Media and Society Lecture, co-sponsored with the School of Communications.
April 5, 2001 – Public Lecture
Mike McCormack: “The Politics Surrounding Policy Formation: A Legislative Perspective”
The Honorable Mike McCormack, former member of U.S. Congress, D-WA, (1970-80), former member of the Washington State Legislature (1956-1970) and current Director of the Institute for Science and Society.
April 16, 2001 – Public Lecture
Larisa Ponomarenko: “Political Change in the Ukraine and the Emergence of Civil Society”
Larisa Ponomarenko, Political Psychologist and Visiting Scholar and from the Ukraine, Odessa State University
April 18, 2001 – Public Policy Forum
Public Policy Forum: “Energy Deregulation: Failure or the Future?”
Public Policy Forum, “Energy Deregulation: Failure or the Future?” With rising energy demands, skyrocketing prices, and rolling blackouts in California (and possibly in the Northwest this summer), recent efforts to deregulate electricity have come under attack. Panelists discuss divergent perspectives regarding deregulation of this essential commodity. Moderator: Ken Casavant, Professor, Agriculture Economics, WSU and former member of the Northwest Power Planning Council; Participants: Dave Sjoding, Associate Director, WSU Energy Program, Olympia, Washington; Terry Morlan, Chief Economist, Northwest Power Planning Council, Portland, Oregon; Andrew Ford, Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Regional Planning, WSU; Loren Lutzenhiser, Associate Professor, Sociology and Rural Sociology, WSU.
April 24, 2001 – Foreign and Security Policy Brown Bag Series
Thomas Preston: “The Question of National Missile Defense”
Thomas Preston, Associate Professor, WSU Political Science Department, Foreign and Security Policy Brownbag Series.
April 26, 2001 – Public Lecture
Michael Mintrom: “Policy Design for Local Innovation: Market-like Competition and Its Effect in Public Schooling”
Michael Mintrom, Associate Professor of Political Science and Institute for Public Policy and Social Research, Michigan State University.
Co-sponsored with University of Idaho, Dept. of Political Science and the U of I Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society
April 27, 2001 – Public Lecture
Michael Mintrom: “Initiating Policy Change: Ideas for Practice”.
Michael Mintrom, Associate Professor of Political Science and Institute for Public Policy and Social Research, Michigan State University.
Co-sponsored with University of Idaho, Dept. of Political Science and the U of I Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society
May 1, 2001 – Public Policy Symposium
“The Endangered Species Act and the Pacific Northwest: Can We Afford (Not) to Save the Salmon?”
Public Policy Symposium, Evening panel at the WSU-Vancouver campus. Moderator: Robert Lackey, US Environmental Protection Agency, Corvallis, OR; Participants: John Freemuth, Boise State University, Dept. of Political Science, Boise, ID; Robert Turner, National Marine Fisheries Administration, Olympia, Washington; Peter Schoonmaker, Director, Institute for the Northwest, Portland, OR; Mark Plummer, The Discovery Institute, Vancouver, WA.