Thursday, October 19, 2000
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Speakers
| Stephen
Ansolabehere is an MIT professor of political science who
studies elections, democracy, and the mass media. He is coauthor
(with Shanto Iyengar) of The Media Game and of Going
Negative: How Political Advertising Alienates and Polarizes the
American Electorate. His articles have appeared in The
American Political Science Review, The British Journal of Politics,
The Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Public
Opinion Quarterly, The Quill, and Chance. His current
research projects include campaign finance, congressional elections,
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Chappell
Lawson is an assistant professor of political science at MIT.
His major interests include Latin American politics, Mexican politics,
regime change, the mass media, and U.S. foreign policy. His dissertation,
Building the Fourth Estate, addresses the role of the mass
media in democratization. Lawson's current research focuses on
voting behavior in Mexico. Before joining the MIT faculty, Lawson
served as a director of Inter-American Affairs on the National
Security Council and was a fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexico
Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
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Anna
Greenberg is assistant professor of public policy at Harvard's
Kennedy School of Government. She specializes in public opinion,
political participation, gender politics, and religion and politics.
She is currently working on a book titled Divine Inspiration:
Revealing Faith in Politics, which examines the role of congregations
in politics and local communities. Her other research focuses
on the gender gap and electoral politics. Greenberg is an expert
on Web-based survey research and has conducted a variety of methodological
and substantive studies using an Internet-based panel. Greenberg
was a field worker for senators Christopher Dodd and Joe Lieberman,
was Rosa DeLauro's deputy press secretary in her run for Congress,
and worked in the polling unit of the 1992 Clinton/Gore campaign.
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