{"id":1515,"date":"2012-10-05T16:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2012-10-15T15:30:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T15:30:08","slug":"the-american-idea-on-politics-october-23-200-pm-in-paley-library-lecture-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/2012\/10\/05\/the-american-idea-on-politics-october-23-200-pm-in-paley-library-lecture-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Idea on Politics, October 23, 2:00 PM in Paley Library Lecture Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A national election is approaching&#8230;.please join us to consider<strong> The American Idea on Politics in a Conversation with Keya Dannenbaum and Hal Gullan, hosted by Robin Kolodny<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>October 23, 2:00 PM, Paley Library Lecture Hall<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As another presidential election approaches, politics are on our minds. America\u2019s founding values of freedom and democracy play out in intriguing ways in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century media-saturated environment. In a world of sound bites, electoral fights, and bipartisan snipes, how can we best participate in a democracy and vote on the issues that are important to us? Panelists Keya Dannenbaum and Hal Gullan will discuss those questions and more on October 23 at Paley.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dannenbaum<\/em> is the founder of electnext.com, a site that translates political data into tools that help build a more informed, engaged, and effective democracy. Dannenbaum has studied and worked in politics from a variety of perspectives: \u00a0as a Stanford undergrad and Princeton Ph.D.; internationally as a Fulbright Scholar in Colombia and later in India; nationally in the 2008 Presidential election; and locally for the Mayor of New Haven, CT.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hal Gullan<\/em> is an expert on electoral politics, tracing back to his dissertation, \u201cThe Upset That Wasn\u2019t-Harry Truman and the Critical Election of 1948,\u201d completed here at Temple. Gullan\u2019s most recent book, <em>Toomey\u2019s Triumph\u2014Inside a Key Senate Campaign<\/em> (Temple University Press, 2012) is a veteran political observer&#8217;s take on the Pat Toomey-Joe Sestak U.S. Senate race of 2010.<\/p>\n<p><em>Robin Kolodny<\/em>, Associate Professor of Political Science at Temple, will moderate the program.\u00a0She is the author of <em>Pursuing Majorities:\u00a0 Congressional Campaign Committees in American Politics<\/em> (University of Oklahoma Press, 1998) as well as numerous articles on political parties in Congress, in elections, and in comparative perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A national election is approaching&#8230;.please join us to consider The American Idea on Politics in a Conversation with Keya Dannenbaum and Hal Gullan, hosted by Robin Kolodny October 23, 2:00 PM, Paley Library Lecture Hall As another presidential election approaches, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/2012\/10\/05\/the-american-idea-on-politics-october-23-200-pm-in-paley-library-lecture-hall\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":955,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programs","tag-top-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3PKHL-or","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/955"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}