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Policy Lunch with Tammy Frisby and Thad Kousser |
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Lunch with Tammy Frisby and Thad Kousser
at the Haas Center DK Room
Monday, November 9, 12:00-1:00 pm
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Tammy Frisby is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where she also teaches in the political science department and the university's public policy program. She studies both national and state politics. She has written about efforts by state legislators to repeal term limits. She has also studied the response of voters following term limit repeals in Utah and Idaho. From September 2007 to August 2009, she was Executive Director of Stanford University's Bill Lane Center for the American West. Frisby earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University's Department of Government.
Thad Kousser is an Associate Professor of Political Science at University of California, San Diego who is spending the 2009-2010 year working on constitutional reform as a visiting fellow at Stanford's Bill Lane Center for the American West and the Hoover Institution. Winter Quarter, Thad is teaching Polisci 225E: The Laws of Politics: Term Limits, Campaign Finance, Blanket Primaries, and Redistricting. He is a recipient of the UCSD Academic Senate's Distinguished Teaching Award and the Faculty Mentor of the Year Award, serves as co-editor of the journal State Politics and Policy Quarterly, and has worked as a staff assistant in the California, New Mexico, and United States Senates.
They will be discussing California Constitutional Reform (or other questions on California Governance and politics). The Bill Lane Center for the American West jointly hosted a conference in Sacramento on CA constitutional reform that attracted over 300 attendees and explored questions of history, law, public opinion, and our options for moving forward -- including a constitutional convention or a revision commission.
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