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Election 2012: The Next Four Years
The University of Maryland has a number of faculty experts who can add substance to your coverage of what to expect now that President Obama has won reelection.
Experts cover a wide range of issues from politics to media coverage and specific issues including the federal budget, health care and more.
Feel free to contact our faculty experts directly. All experts are listed alphabetically. If you don't see an expert you're looking for, please contact University Communications directly at 301-405-4621.
For business expertise as it relates to Election 2012, see this list of experts at UMD's Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Number of experts found: 30
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C. Fred Alford
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Professor
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Government & Politics
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Whistleblowers; political psychology; moral psychology, politics and psychoanalysis and political theory
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301 405 4169
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410 884 7492
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falford@gvpt.umd.edu
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Gar Alperovitz
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Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy
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Government & Politics
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Expertise Key Words:
History/future of nuclear weapons, arms control and disarmament strategies; political-economic issues including state/local responses to globalization, national fiscal crisis, wealth inequality, innovative responses to job outsourcing, social security reform, progressive trade policy
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443-801-8706
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press@democracycollaborative.org
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Kenneth S. Apfel
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Prof Of Practice, Lecturer
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School of Public Policy
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Expertise Key Words:
Public management, leadership and social policy with a particular focus on aging, health care, and retirement issues.
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301 314 2485
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kapfel@umd.edu
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Karen K. Bradley
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Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Dance
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Dance
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Expertise Key Words:
Body Language
A certified movement analyst, Bradley studies the nonverbal and movement behaviors of political leaders.
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301 405 0387
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(202)-669-3927
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kbradley@umd.edu
kbradley608@msn.com
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Sarah E. Croco
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Asst Prof
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Government & Politics
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Expertise Key Words:
International conflict; the process by which citizens assign leaders responsibility for international wars; the value of policy consistency in elections; territorial disputes and civilian targeting.
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301 405 2161
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scroco@umd.edu
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Fred Feinstein
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Senior Research Scholar
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School of Public Policy
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Expertise Key Words:
Unions and labor issues, adapting labor policy to new work environments. State and Local Initiatives to Strengthen Collective Bargaining Rights.
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301 405 2729
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flf@umd.edu
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Christopher H. Foreman
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School of Public Policy
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Expertise Key Words:
Political institutions; the politics of health, safety, and the environment; African Americans and public policy; environmental justice; government reform.
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301 405 0442
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cforeman@umd.edu
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Show all information about Christopher H. Foreman
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James M. Glass
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Professor
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Government & Politics
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Expertise Key Words:
Political theory and philosophy, political psychology. Political action and political morality. Current research includes a study of Jewish political and spiritual resistance during the Holocaust.
Political action and political morality; politics and film
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301 405 4119
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jglass1@umd.edu
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Mark A. Graber
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Professor, Associate Department Chair, and Director of Graduate Studies
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Government & Politics
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Expertise Key Words:
Politics, Constitutional Law; Human Rights; Abortion, Culture Wars, Supreme Court
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301-405-4215
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301-588-0119
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mgraber@umd.edu
mgraber@law.umaryland.edu
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Michael J. Hanmer
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Assistant Professor
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Government & Politics
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Expertise Key Words:
voter turnout, election reform, voter registration, voting technology, public opinion, survey research, political methodology
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301 405 7379
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mhanmer@gvpt.umd.edu
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Christopher T. Hanson
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Assistant Professor
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Philip Merrill College of Journalism
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Expertise Key Words:
Journalism, Journalism's role in pop culture, air crash and disaster coverage, American history, First Amendment, foreign policy, national security, environmental policy, politics and elections, space exploration, ethnic and gender stereotyping, public perceptions of crime.
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301 405 6049
202 257 7921
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202 342 5539
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202 257 7921
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chanson@umd.edu
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Paul S. Herrnson
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Professor and Director of the Center for American Politics and Citizenship
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Government & Politics
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Expertise Key Words:
Congressional and national politics; Campaign finance reform; Voting technology; Maryland politics.
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301 405 4123
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herrnson@umd.edu
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David Karol
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Assoc Prof
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Government & Politics
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Expertise Key Words:
Political Parties, Presidential Nominations, Congress & Presidency, Politics of Trade Policy
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301 405 0906
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dkarol@umd.edu
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Karen M. Kaufmann
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Associate Professor
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Government & Politics
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Expertise Key Words:
Among specialties: Common political myths; Black and Latino voters; urban politics; election gender gap.
More generally: political campaigns, U.S. public opinion and voting behavior; survey research and polling, group interests/group identities in public opinion and voting.
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301 405 4120
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kkaufmann@gvpt.umd.edu
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Kathleen E. Kendall
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Research Prof.
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Communication
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Expertise Key Words:
Presidential primaries and campaign communication, especially New Hampshire; presidential debates; political communication.
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301 405 6525
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202-363-6687
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kkendall@umd.edu
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Show all information about Kathleen E. Kendall
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Donald F. Kettl
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Dean
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School of Public Policy
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Expertise Key Words:
Public policy and public management with a speciality in the management of public organization; federalism; budgeting; and U.S. politics.
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301 405 6971
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kettl@umd.edu
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Frances Lee
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Professor
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Government & Politics
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Expertise Key Words:
American politics and institutions, with a special interest in how the structure of representation in the U.S. Congress shapes politics and policy outcomes.
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301 405 4339
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flee1@umd.edu
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Rafael Lorente
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Lecturer
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Philip Merrill College of Journalism
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Expertise Key Words:
U.S. foreign policy toward Cuba.
Media coverage of national politics/presidential elections.
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301 405 2425
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301 864 0168
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202 841 2375
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rlorente@jmail.umd.edu
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Sean D. Luechtefeld
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Grad Asst III
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Communication
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Expertise Key Words:
Communication, politics, rhetoric, political culture, rhetoric of economics, poverty, entrepreneurship, populism, social movements, asset building
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301 405 8976
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sdl@umd.edu
seanluechtefeld@gmail.com
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Kristjana L. Maddux
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Asst Prof
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Communication
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Expertise Key Words:
political communication; feminism; religion and public affairs; civic participation; presidential speeches; women in politics; first ladies; Christian media; church history; political rhetoric
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301 405 6533
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klmaddux@umd.edu
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Peter G. Morici
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Professor
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Logistics, Business & Public Policy
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Expertise Key Words:
Macroeconomics, International Economics And International Business, And Government Regulation; Steel; Autos; Telecommunications; Airlines; Manufacturing; Retailing; Financial And Foreign Exchange Markets; Import And Export Issues
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301 405 2136
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703-549-4338
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pmorici@umd.edu
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Irwin L. Morris
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Associate Professor
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Government & Politics
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Racial/ethnic & class/economic dynamics of American politics & public policymaking; the political transformation of the American South. The impeachment of President Bill Clinton; Congress, the President, and the Federal Reserve; The State lottery: Creating social inequality across the nation.
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301 405 8633
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imorris@umd.edu
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Sheri L. Parks
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Associate Professor
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American Studies
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Expertise Key Words:
Media criticism; popular American culture and aesthetics with a special focus on family, gender and race; Harry Potter and American culture.
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301 405 6255
301-405-1354
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slp@umd.edu
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Shawn J. Parry-Giles
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Associate Professor and Director, Center for Political Communication & Civic Leadership
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Communication
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Expertise Key Words:
U.S. Political Communication, News Coverage of Hillary Clinton, Political Campaigns and Campaign Communication, Presidential and First Lady Discourse, U.S. War Discourse, Wartime Propaganda, Politics and Media, Presidential Debates and Political Advertisements, Popular Culture and the Presidency
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301 405 6527
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301-495-8875
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301-704-5541
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spg@umd.edu
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Rashawn Ray
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Assistant Professor
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Sociology
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Expertise Key Words:
Social psychology,
social stratification,
race relations,
African American,
social class,
middle class,
men's treatment of women,
health policy
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301 405 9581
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rjray@umd.edu
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Philip S. Resnik
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Assoc Prof, Affil Assoc Prof
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Linguistics and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
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Natural language processing, human language technology, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence; multilingual computing, machine translation; computational psycholinguistics, computational semantics; Web search technology.
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301 405 6760
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resnik@umd.edu
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Stella M. Rouse
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Asst Prof
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Government & Politics
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Latino politics, minority politics, legislative and political behavior; how Latinos vote; how Latinos are represented; role of religion in politics; immigration
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301 405 4156
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srouse@umd.edu
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Phillip L. Swagel
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Prof
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School of Public Policy
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Expertise Key Words:
Economic policy, financial crisis. financial markets, fiscal policy, tax policy, international trade, Social Security, Medicare, Treasury Department
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301 405 1914
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pswagel@umd.edu
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Eric M. Uslaner
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Prof
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Government & Politics
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American politics (especially on Congress and Congressional elections), social capital, and institutional design, corruption and trust.
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301 405 4151
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euslaner@umd.edu
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Karen A. Woodrow-Lafield
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Res Prof
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Dean-Maryland Population Research Center
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Expertise Key Words:
International migration, immigration policy, surveys on migration and the foreign-born, Mexico-U.S. migration, sociology of citizenship, emigration and return migration, poverty analysis, census coverage and undercount, population estimates and projections, finances of Social Security programs
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301-405-3239
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kwoodrow@umd.edu
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