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Faculty
Happenings
Nicholas Miller
has been elected President
of the Public Choice Society and will be responsible for
organizing its 2009 and 2010 annual meetings. He also has been designated
Editor of the "ejournal" on Games and Political Behavior
that is part of the newly established Political Science Network
component of the Social Science
Research Network (SSRN).
Increasing
Budgetary Democracy and Flexibility,
by Roy Meyers, Maryland Policy Reports, June 2008.
It was announced
at the Political Science Spring Reception that Professor Carolyn
Forestiere won the Political Science Council of Majors 2007-08
Teacher of the Year Award. Dr. Brigid Starkey was awarded
the 2007-08 Part-Time Faculty Teaching Award..
Nicholas Miller was a speaker on May 6, 2008 at the London
School of Economics and Political Science Conference on
"Problems in the U.S. Democracy: the electoral college and
gerrymandering."
Roy Meyers
is cited in "Life in Budget Limbo" washingtonpost.com
(11/1/07).
"Acting Globally,
Thinking Locally: The Side-Effects of Pursuing International Justice
in the former Yugoslavia," to be presented by
Brian Grodsky at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars, Washington, D.C., October 2007.
Betting
on the Future with a Cloudy Crystal Ball? Revenue Forecasting, Financial
Theory, and Budgets - An Expanded Treatment,"
by Roy Meyers, Public Administration Review, September/October
2007, Vol. 67, No. 5.
Brian Grodsky
quoted in "As Georgia Reforms, Judiciary Under Scrutiny,"
Christian
Science Monitor, September 17, 2007.
The
George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal published
in September an article by George LaNoue titled, "Setting
Goals in the Federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise [DBE] Program"
by Professor George R. La Noue. This 53 page legal and policy analysis
criticizes the process and the data used to set DBE goals in the
$275 billion federal transportation program. The research was based
on examination of the goals submission proposals of all fifty state
Departments of Transportation and many local governments which never
been previously analyzed in published research.
Roy Meyers
is cited in "Action, not slogans, needed to balance budget"
Gazette.Net
(8/31/07).
Nicholas
Miller visited Creighton University in April to present a series
of lectures on "The Biography of the Uncovered Set" as
well as a single lecture on "A Priori Voting Power under the
Electoral College and Alternative Institutions." He published
an article on "In Search of the Uncovered Set" in Political
Analysis (Winter, 2007) and on "The Butterfly Effect under
STV" in Electoral Studies (June 2007).
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