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California State University,
Sacramento
COMMUNICATOR
November 3, 2000 |
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FACULTY Nancy Shulock gave a presentation at the 22nd Annual Forum of the European Association of Institutional Research (EAIR) in Berlin, Germany in September on institutional accountability of metropolitan universities. Cristy Jensen was an invited participant at an International Conference on Fiscal Relations between Federal, State and Local Authorities in Moscow, Russia. The conference was jointly sponsored by the Council of Europe and the Congress of Municipalities in Russia. The Congress leadership includes Vitaly Chernikov and Larissa Kireeva whom Cristy has worked with over the last five years in varied local self government activities. Dr. Jensen was able to interview the Director of the Center for Fiscal Policy as well as analysts in the Federation Council (equivalent to our US Senate) about President Putin's recent centralization "reforms" as part of her research on the current state of Russian Federalism. After the Moscow conference, Cristy traveled to Tblisi, Georgia where she gave lectures on the American Presidential Nomination and Election Process for Politology students and faculty at Tblisi State University. She also met with project directors of the Social Science Project of the Soros Foundation funded Open Society Institute. The highlight was a two hour presentation and discussion of US Federalism with the Tblisi City Council which was a continuation of a dialogue which began when 10 of the 55 members were in Sacramento this past spring. Peter Detwiler spoke to a Stanford Law School class in late October on the connections between local finance and land use. Professor Meg Caldwell's special course is producing a land use handbook for citizen activists, the next in Stanford's environmental law series. "I gave the Stanford law students exactly what I try to give our own students in PPA 250 -- a mix of research findings and practical examples," Detwiler said. Ted Lascher's latest coauthored working paper, Response to Matsusaka: Estimating the Effect of Ballot Initiatives on Policy Responsiveness (August 2000), has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Politics. The article was written with Michael G. Hagen, University of Pennsylvania and John F. Camobreco, Christopher Newport University. We welcome your contributions to the Communicator! Contact the Director, Bob Waste, or the Department Secretary, Suzi Byrd, (916) 278-6557, in the PPA Department Office. |
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