Fortune Magazine Originally Posted: June 30, 2015 Chris Christie 2016: Should a bully be president? For presidents, success is most often achieved not by pummeling opponents into submission but by schmoozing instead. Of all of the printable words used to describe Chris Christie—bold, brash, boisterous—bully might be mentioned the most. The Republican New Jersey governor […]
Category: Political Science
WFAA Originally Posted: July 6, 2015 DALLAS —At Dallas City Hall, they’re stringing cable and installing video cameras. The city is investing $2.5 million in new equipment that will broadcast city government to a wider audience. Before now, many committee meetings were not televised, and none were archived for easy public access. Now — after […]
Associate Professor of Political Science Pamela Corley was recently awarded the Hughes-Gosset Award for the best article published in the Journal of Supreme Court History in the previous year. Professor Corley received this prestigious award at the Supreme Court Historical Society during the Annual Meeting on June 1, 2015. The title of Professor Corley’s article […]
San Antonio Current Originally Posted: June 10, 2015 AUSTIN — The 2015 session of the Texas Legislature, which ended last week rather unceremoniously, was widely panned as a bust. Immigrant advocates couldn’t be any happier. They’re claiming victory. “We were very excited, but it kept us on our toes,” Chloe Sikes, a member of the […]
Texas Public Radio Originally Posted: June 4, 2015 When the state’s longest serving governor announces his second presidential run Thursday, he is going to be surrounded by a star-studded group his campaign calls “patriots.” At the Addison Airport just north of Dallas, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, 65, will be flanked by decorated soldiers, including […]
WFAA Originally Posted: May 29, 2015 DALLAS – There’s a lot of water in the Trinity River running through Dallas, but not enough water to reach where the proposed Trinity Parkway toll road would be. The Army Corps of Engineers crunched the numbers Tuesday, saying the river crested Sunday at 40.18 feet — that’s a […]
7 p.m. June 4, 2015 Dedman Life Sciences Building Harold Jeskey Lecture Hall, Room 131 SMU Joseph F. Kobylka, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Undergraduate Studies will discuss the impact of the pending case and imminent decision being made by the Supreme Court for same sex couples in Texas and around the […]
KTRK News Radio Originally Posted: May 18, 2015 The Texas Senate faces a Friday deadline much like the House did last week which killed many top-priority bills for both parties, such as raising the criminal age of responsibility, direct sales for Tesla and expanding gay rights. No measure is completely dead, they can still be […]
Time Originally Posted: MAy 15, 2015 By Robert W. Jordan King Salman of Saudi Arabia has declined an invitation to participate in President Barack Obama’s Gulf summit meeting in Camp David this week. Both the United States and Saudi Arabia are working to minimize the fallout from this decision, but from the Saudi standpoint, this […]
Congratulations to the Dedman College students awarded prestigious national fellowships and awards during the 2014-15 academic year, including Fulbright Grants and a fellowship to the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress. These students include: Fulbright Scholar: Whitney Goodwin Michaela Wallerstedt Kandi Doming Institute for Responsible Citizenship Scholar: Garrett Fisher Center for the […]