David PesciMore than half of all campaign ads were attack ads. Why? Because politicians believe they work.
Climate change will bring a deep-south weather to the Northeast in the coming years
Workshop helps students refine skills to seek out support for nonprofits they wish to create
Don't underestimate the power of the presidency, or of Obama's ability to self-promote and will to win
More attack ads were run by politicians this election cycle than ever before, and for a good reason
Consecutive elections have turned on 'change' but the Constitution makes rapid change very difficult
The Republican strategist cites research done by The Wesleyan Media Project on negative campaign ads
So much has been written about the recession that befell the country in the late summer of 2008. It was "unprecedented;" it "caught experts by surprise;" "virtually no one saw it coming." After all, a recession triggered by a major segment of the economy that was vulnerable to speculation, occurring during a time of high government deficits, cuts in interest rates, and tax reductions combined with dramatic increases in federal spending? When has that happened before? “Dozens of times, if not more, during the last one hundred and fifty years or so,” says Richard Grossman, professor of economics, economic historian…
Mention “records and documents of a large bureaucracy” and images of stacks of dense paperwork, rows of beige filing cabinets, and perhaps even a slight sensation of suffocation comes to mind. But mention the same phrase to Laura Stark and her pulse steps up a beat as she sees something quite different: buried treasure. “I am interested in the power of bureaucracies and the discretion people within them have to interpret rules,” says Stark, assistant professor of science and society, assistant professor of sociology. “How people who work in big organizations, including government agencies, apply general rules to specific cases…
The Wesleyan Media Project has received a $100,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Wesleyan Media Project is a non-partisan initiative designed to perform comprehensive tracking and analysis of federal and gubernatorial political advertisements by candidates, parties and special interest groups. It also provides experiential learning for graduate and undergraduate students in the review, coding and analysis of political advertisements. Since its launch in late September 2010, The Wesleyan Media Project (more…)
Erika Franklin Fowler, assistant professor of government, received a $100,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The funds will be used to support The Wesleyan Media Project. More information on this grant is online at: https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2010/11/05/knight-foundation-supports-the-wesleyan-media-project/
The book offers an intimate look at this historic couple, their family and the nation growing up around them