The School of Arts and Sciences
presents
Democracy in Action: A Look at the 2006 Mid-Term Elections
at
Penn Homecoming 2006
Has the war in Iraq lost the support of the electorate? Will the aftermath of Katrina come back to haunt Republican candidates? Is the problem the economy or immigration - or neither? The School of Arts and Sciences invites you to join a lively discussion of the issues, messages and implications of the 2006 midterm elections. Panelists include Donald Kettl, Professor of Political Science, Stanley I. Sheerr Endowed Term Chair in the Social Sciences, and Director, Fels Institute of Government; Dick Polman, a Philadelphia Inquirer political columnist and blogger who teaches journalistic and political writing at Penn; and moderator Jack Nagel, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Steven F. Goldstone Endowed Term Professor of Political Science Friday, October 27 |  |
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About Donald Kettl
Donald Kettl is the director of the University of Pennsylvania's Fels Institute of Government, Professor of Political Science and the Stanley I. Sheerr Endowed Term Chair in the Social Sciences. He has served as a White House advisor during Republican and Democratic administrations and is author or editor of a dozen books and monographs, including "System under Stress: Homeland Security and American Politics" and "Leadership at the Fed." He is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and has consulted for an array of public organizations. A frequent media commentator, Kettl has contributed to op-ed pages in major newspapers and appeared on national television and radio programs.
About Dick Polman
Dick Polman has covered the last four presidential elections as national political reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer. In his 20 years at the paper, he has also worked as a foreign correspondent based in London; a baseball writer covering the Philadelphia Phillies; a general-assignment writer in the features section; and a frequent, longtime contributor to the Sunday magazine. In the early 1980s, he wrote three columns a week for the Hartford Courant, and, at age 24 in 1975, he was the founding editor of an alternative newspaper, the Hartford Advocate, which still publishes today. In addition to his reportorial job, he teaches narrative nonfiction writing at the University of Pennsylvania.