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March 9, 2000
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CONTACT: Deborah Pankey Stewart
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American Politics at the Millennium
A Lecture at Hopkins
Benjamin Ginsberg, the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science at The Johns Hopkins
University, will give a
lecture, "American Politics at the Millennium: Prospects and
Problems," at noon on
Wednesday, April 5, in Shriver Hall on the Johns Hopkins
University's Homewood
campus, 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore.
According to Ginsberg, at the start of the millennium,
Americans are enjoying
unprecedented prosperity. Politics, however, continue to bewilder
and disappoint many
Americans. He sums up current politics this way: "One of the
ironic facts about
contemporary American politics is that we've had very vicious
political conflicts between
the two parties. They prefer to fight it out through smear
campaigns and through the
judicial process rather than by the traditional method of . . .
trying to defeat their
opponents at the polls. . . . And that's one of the most
remarkable changes in our
politics: the decline of elections and the rise of politics by
smear and by litigation."
What the future holds, and whether there are any real
solutions, are issues that
Ginsberg confronts in this lecture.
Ginsberg is director of the Hopkins Center for the Study of
American
Government and author of two recent books, Politics by Other
Means: Politicians,
Prosecutors and the Press from Watergate to Whitewater and
American
Government: Freedom and Power.
This lecture is part of the Wednesday Noon Series presented
by the Johns
Hopkins University Office of Special
Events. Admission is
free. For information, call the Office of Special Events at
410-516-7157.
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