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Defying Constituents Wishes: Lawrence University Political Scientist Discusses Why Elected Officials Can Do It, Lawrence University
Defying Constituents Wishes: Lawrence University Political Scientist Discusses Why Elected Officials Can Do It, Lawrence University
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Political scientist Christian Grose examines the reasons why elected representatives can support positions contrary to the voters of their district and still get re-elected in a Lawrence University Science Hall Colloquium.
Grose, assistant professor of government at Lawrence, presents “Why do Legislators Deviate from their Constituents’ Preferences” Wednesday, Oct. 13 at 4:30 p.m. in Science Hall Room 102.
Grose will discuss recent research he has conducted on elected officials’ “valence advantage,” that is, those advantages a representative has that are unrelated specifically to policy decisions, such as personal charisma, constituency service or the delivery of federal largess to district constituents. …
Lawrence University Political Scientist Awarded Fulbright Grant To Study Pension Reforms In China, Lawrence University
Lawrence University Political Scientist Awarded Fulbright Grant To Study Pension Reforms In China, Lawrence University
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Lawrence University political scientist Mark Frazier has been awarded a $59,500 grant by the Fulbright Scholar Program to conduct research on pension reform initiatives in China.
Beginning in October, Frazier will spend six months in China investigating different strategies that local government officials are implementing to deal with the financial and political obstacles created by recently enacted pension reforms.
First established in 1951 under Mao Tse-Tung and covering a mere 20,000 retirees who met all the necessary requirements at the time, China’s pension program underwent its first major overhaul in 40 years in the early 1990s. The long-standing practice of …