New
Ways to Teach About Campaigns and Elections, a short
course in advance of this year's APSA convention, will take place from 9:30
a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, August 29, in San Francisco.
The course includes three
panels, according to James A. Thurber,
director of the Center for Congressional
and Presidential Studies. In the first, academics will discuss the study
and teaching of campaigns and elections. In the second panel, campaign practitioners
will discuss what constitutes an informed electorate, informed candidates, and
a responsible media and will suggest ways that professors can get interested
students involved in practical politics.
The final panel, held during
lunch, will include principal investigators in several major Pew-funded projects:
James A. Thurber, American University (Improving Campaign Conduct), Sean Treglia,
The Pew Charitable Trusts, Paul S. Herrnson, University of Maryland (Campaign
Assessment and Candidate Outreach), Michael Malbin, SUNY Albany (Campaign Finance
Institute), Thomas E. Mann, The Brookings Institution (Permanent Campaign Project),
Paul Taylor (Alliance for Better Campaigns), Michael Cornfield, George Washington
University (Democracy On-Line) and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania
(Campaign Discourse Mapping Project).
The event is sponsored by
the Campaign Management Institute at American University, and will distribute
teaching materials assembled and produced as part of the "Improving Campaign
Conduct" project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
There is no registration fee. Lunch and teaching materials will be provided. Advance registration is required. Enroll on line at the short course Web site. For more information, call Leslie McNaugher (202) 885-2360 or send e-mail.