Post Mortem November 14, 2012 12:00pm to 1:00pm The final of the Road to the White House series for a post mortem on the election. Featuring: Dan Schnur, Director of the Unruh Institute on Politics Raphael Bostic, Director of the Bedrosian Center on Governance Roberto Suro, Fellow with the Center Read more…
Price Governance Salon featuring Tonja Jacobi, Northwestern University Tonja Jacobi, Northwestern University Jacobi’s research focuses on judicial politics and behavior, federal courts, American governmental institutions and constitutional law, particularly constitutional criminal procedure. The driving question in her research is: how do judges respond to institutional constraints? This includes vertical constraints, Read more…
November 7, 2012 12:00pm to 1:00pm Geoffrey Cowan, director of USC Annenberg’s Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) lead a wide-ranging post-election conversation with former California Governor Gray Davis and representatives from USC’s College Democrats and College Republicans.
The Swing Vote: Targeting Voters in the Presidential Election October 31, 2012 12:00pm to 1:00pm Featuring: Teddy Davis, Press Secretary, Office of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Michael Davidson, Chief Executive Officer, Gen Next Giuseppe Robalino, Member, USC College Republicans Co-Moderated by: Dan Schnur, Director USC Jesse M. Unruh Institute Read more…
October 22, 2012 11:30am to 1:00pm Featuring: Mark Hugo Lopez, Associate Director, Pew Hispanic Center The event will be co-moderated by Roberto Suro, Director of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute and Paola Fernandez, Political Director of the USC Latino Student Assembly.
California Ballot Proposition 35 on Human Trafficking October 24, 2012 12:00pm to 1:00pm USC Annenberg’s Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) presents a conversation on human trafficking in the 2012 elections featuring: Chris Kelly, the founder of the Safer California Foundation, D’Lita Miller, human trafficking trainer and Family Support Read more…
Price Governance Salon, featuring Manuel Teodoro, Colgate University Teodoro’s research employs both statistical analysis and interview-based and mixed-method case studies. His first book, Bureaucratic Ambition (2011, Johns Hopkins University Press), advances a theory of bureaucratic policy entrepreneurship, its effects on innovation in public agencies, and its impact on democratic governance. Read more…
One of the Most Important Non-Issues of the Campaign – Climate Change October 17, 2012 11:30am to 1:00pm Featuring: Dan Mazmanian, Professor at USC Price, and Director of New Initiatives at the USC Center for Sustainable Cities Juliana Wang, Assistant Professor at USC Dornsife Charles Epting, USC College Republicans Alexander Read more…
No Policy Left Behind? K-12 Education in the 2012 Campaign October 10, 2012 11:30am to 1:00pm Panelists: Morgan Polikoff, Assistant Professor at USC Rossier School of Education Marshall Tuck, Chief Executive Officer at Partnership for Los Angeles Schools Edgar Zazueta, Director of Government Relations for the Los Angeles Unified School Read more…
Price Governance Salon October 4, 2012 Dar’s research interests fall into three interconnected areas of inquiry: comparative political economy of higher education, the relationship between higher education and social inequality and the politics of higher education. She approaches each of these areas with a combination of theoretical and methodological tools Read more…
Going Negative: When Attack Ads Work and When They Don’t October 3, 2012 11:30am to 1:00pm Featuring: John Shallman, President, Shallman Communications Michael Finnegan, Reporter, Los Angeles Times Taylor Markey, Social Chair, USC College Democrats Barr Benyamin, Member, USC College Republicans Co-Moderated By: Dan Schnur, Director, USC Jesse M. Unruh Read more…
This event was part two of the multi-year Bedrosian Center/ ASPA series Shifting the Burden. The October 2nd discussion was intended to develop a better understanding of the challenges and benefits of implementing heath care reform in California and Los Angeles County.
Governance Salon featuring Benjamin Nyblade, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Nyblade’s research focuses on comparative democratic institutions, with a particular interest in political parties, elections and parliamentary democracy in Japan and Western Europe. Current research projects include analysis of the consequences of electoral reforms, the role of party leaders and Read more…
Road to the White House Featuring: Morley Winograd, Senior Fellow, Center on Communication Leadership & Policy Michael Hais, Fellow, NDN and the New Policy Institute C-authors, Millennial Momentum: How a New Generation is Remaking America Moderator: Geoffrey Cowan, Director, Center on Communication Leadership & Policy View the video
Road to the White House Speakers: Andre Pineda, Pollster, Obama for America 2008 Matt Klink, Former President, Cerrell Associates Fritz Pielstick, College Democrats Aaron Wong, Membership Director, College Republicans Moderators: Dan Schnur, Director, Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics Kastalia Medranok Online Editor, Daily Trojan View the video
Road to the White House Featuring: Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, Senior Fellow at USC Price and political analyst for KNBC, Los Angeles Raphael Bostic, Director of the Bedrosian Center on Governance and professor at USC Price
Road to the White House With the polls nearly tied and the conventions coming to an end, the question remains: where will President Obama and Governor Romney take their campaigns? How will the candidates address the tough issues facing the nation? How will the candidates define their policies and strengthen Read more…
Bedrosian Research Award Seminar featuring Richard Callahan, Associate Professor USF Conventional wisdom typically describes the recurring challenges in gang violence and homelessness in Los Angeles County as criminal justice, community engagement, or mental health challenges. Drawing on the past decade of research in the academic communities on governance, as well Read more…
Road to the White House Featuring: Dan Schnur, Director, USC Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics Geoffrey Cowan, Director, USC Annenberg Center of Communication Leadership and Policy Dan Mazmanian, Director, USC Judith and John Bedrosian Center on Government and the Public Enterprise Moderated by: Aaron Wong, President, USC College Republicans Read more…
Road to the White House The Key Issues: Jobs, Healthcare, and Medicare – What will Decide the Election? September 12, 2012 12:00pm to 1:00pm Featuring: Glenn Gritzner, Managing Director, Mercury Public Affairs Michael Madrid, Principal, GrassrootsLab Christian Patterson, Member, USC College Democrats Alex Yebri, Vice President, USC College Republicans Co-Moderated Read more…
Road to the White House The futures of China and the United States are increasingly interlinked. From an economic perspective, US deficits are funded in large part through loans from China. Those loans, in turn, are funded through China’s accumulated trade surpluses, which are vivid reminders of a declining US Read more…
An insightful conversation on the Presidential election as the upcoming California primary grows in significance. Special guests include columnist and veteran political consultant Bob Shrum, author of No Excuses: Confession of a Serial Campaigner, and Marylouise Oates, journalist, human rights activist and author of Making Peace and other novels.
CCLP director Geoffrey Cowan will lead the discussion.
Organizational Culture and the Dynamics of Collaborative Networks Featuring Chris Weare and Nicole Esparza Recently, inter-organizational collaborative networks have received increasing attention from political science and public administration scholars. From a policy perspective, this interest has been sparked by the rise of networked-based forms of policy development and implementation due Read more…
In a campaign season dominated by Super PACS and a political culture in which money and lobbyists seem to rule, what role do special interests play in our political system? Join a panel of experts including Jack Abramoff, former Republican lobbyist, newly-turned ethics watchdog, and author of Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption from America’s Most Notorious Lobbyist, and Bob Hertzberg, former Speaker of the California State Assembly and Co-Chair of reform group California Forward, to discuss the impact of special interests in politics and the presidential campaign.
The House, the Senate, and the White House have all released dueling transportation spending bills – and we’re not likely to see any of them passed this election year. Each version represents competing visions for federal leadership in US infrastructure and finance in an era where trillion-dollar deficits and unemployment still weigh heavily on budgetary politics.