Fed Event: Nov. 3rd, Special Election Event

"Election 2010 |What Happened and What It Means" with William Galston and Jeremy Rosner; I. M. "Mac" Destler presiding

Wednesday, November 3rd, 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm, Atrium in Van Munching Hall


The Saul I Stern Professorship in Civic Engagement will hostElection 2010
What Happened and What It Meanswith William Galston and Jeremy Rosner; I. M. "Mac" Destler presiding

William Galston is a political theorist who both studies and participates in American politics and public policy. He was Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy during the first Clinton Administration (1993-1995), Executive Director of the National Commission on Civic Renewal (1998-2000), and founding director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE). He has served as chief speech writer for John Anderson's National Unity campaign, as issues director for Walter Mondale's presidential campaign and as senior advisor to Albert Gore Jr. during his run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 in 1988 and again during his 2000 presidential campaign. He serves on the boards of numerous organizations, including the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and the National Endowment for Democracy. The author of eight books, Galston is currently a College Park Professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and The Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution.

Jeremy Rosner is one of the world's leading consultants for political parties, candidates, governments, NGOs, and corporate leaders around the globe. He specializes in using sophisticated public opinion research to help leaders and organizations worldwide design and implement winning political and communications strategies. His work as a pollster, campaign consultant, strategic adviser, and expert on international affairs focuses heavily on the transitional countries of Central Europe and Latin America, and has been cited in many publications around the world. Since joining Greenberg Quinlan Rosner in 1998, Dr. Rosner has directed public opinion research and provided strategic advice for dozens of leaders, governments, and campaigns in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, as well as for major corporations and issue organizations.

STERN PROFESSOR OF CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
I. M. "Mac" Destler is a scholar who specializes in the politics and processes of U.S. foreign policymaking. He is co-author, with Ivo H. Daalder, of In the Shadow of the Oval Office (Simon and Schuster, 2009), which analyzes the role of the President's national security adviser from the Kennedy through the George W. Bush administration. His American Trade Politics (Institute for International Economics, 4th edition, 2005) won the Gladys M. Kammerer Award of the American Political Science Association for the best book on U.S. national policy. Over 100,000 copies of this book are now in print, including Japanese and Chinese translations. Other recent Destler works include Misreading the Public: The Myth of a New Isolationism (Brookings Institution Press, 1999, with Steven Kull), and Protecting the American Homeland, (Brookings Institution, 2002 and 2003, with co-authors).