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Date: September 22, 1998
The "Crisis in the U.S. Presidency" to be Discussed at Princeton
Princeton, N.J. -- A distinguished panel composed of experts on the presidency, international security, and domestic policy will discuss "Crisis in the U.S. Presidency: The Impact on National and International Affairs" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Thursday, October 8 at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
"This crisis extends far beyond the boundaries of the Beltway, and far beyond the boundaries of the United States," according to the panel's moderator, Wolfgang Danspeckgruber, a lecturer in public and international affairs. "It is redefining the role of the presidency and its relationship to the American people. Additionally, in this age of instantaneous telecommunications, it has a significant impact on the way the United States is perceived by the rest of the world, which can have profound ramifications for national security."
The panelists will be:
Alan Blinder, former vice chair of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors and the University's Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics, who served on President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. He is the author or co-author of 10 books, including Hard Heads, Soft Hearts; Growing Together; Economics: Principles and Policy (with W. J. Baumol) and Toward an Economic Theory of Income and Policy. From 1985 until 1994 he wrote a monthly column for Business Week magazine.
Professor of Politics Fred Greenstein, whose research has focused on political psychology and the presidency, is the author of The American Party System and the American People; Children and Politics; Personality and Politics: Problems of Evidence, Inference and Conceptualization; and The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader; and co-author of An Introduction to Political Analysis; The Dynamics of American Politics; and How Presidents Test Reality: Decisions on Vietnam, 1954 and 1965; editor of The Reagan Presidency: An Early Appraisal; and Leadership in the Modern Presidency; and co-editor of A Source Book for the Study of Personality and Politics; The Handbook of Political Science (8 vol.); and The Evolution of the Modern Presidency.
Professor of Politics and Public Affairs Jennifer Hochschild, an authority on American politics, public policy, and political theory, with special interests in social welfare, education policy, race, American political thought, feminist theory, and political psychology. She is the author of What's Fair: American Beliefs About Distributive Justice; The New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation; and Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation. She is currently a vice president of the American Political Science Association.
Professor of Politics Stephen Holmes, an authority on democratic and constitutional theory, the history of European liberalism, and state building after communism. He is the author of Benjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Liberalism; The Anatomy of Antiliberalism; and Passions and Constraint: On the Theory of Liberal Democracy. He is the editor-in-chief of the East European Constitutional Review and has published many articles on democratic theory and postcommunism.
Richard Ullman, Princeton's David K. E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs, who has been a staff member of the National Security Council and of the Policy Planning Staff of the Office of the Secretary of Defense; director of studies of the Council on Foreign Relations; a member of the editorial board of The New York Times; and editor of Foreign Policy. His most recent book is The World and Yugoslavia's Wars. He is also the author of Securing Europe and a three-volume history of Anglo-Soviet relations during the period 1917ñ192. Ullman is coeditor of Theory and Policy in International Relations and of Western Europe and the Crisis in U.S.-Soviet Relations. His articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, International Security, World Politics, Ethics, the New York Times Magazine, and other journals.
The panel is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School and the Center of International Studies.