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1999 Bulen Symposium on American Politics
Front-Loading: Is a Blizzard of Primaries Burying the Political Parties?
 
Friday, December 3, 1999
University Place Conference Center
 
8:30 Registration check-in
 
9:00 Welcome
  • Gerald Bepko, Chancellor, IUPUI
  • Mitch Daniels, Senior Vice President, Eli Lilly & Company
  • Ken Bode, Dean, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
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9:15 - 10:30
"The Long(er), Winding Road: Campaigns for the White House in the Age of Front-Loading"
  • William G. Mayer, Professor, Northeastern University (editor of In Pursuit of the White House: How We Choose Our Presidential Nomineees)
  • Mark Lubbers, campaign manager for Senator Richard Lugar's 1996 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination
  • Jim Barnes, national political reporter and analyst, National Journal
  • Barbara Norrander, Professor, University of Arizona (contributing author, In Pursuit of the White House: How We Choose Our Presidential Nominees)
 
10:30 - 10:45 Break
 
10:45 - 12:00
"Earliest, Earlier, and Later: State Strategies, Front-Loading, and Its Effects"
  • Terry Branstad, former Governor of Iowa
  • Bob Mulholland, California Democratic Party Chairman
  • Mike McDaniel, Indiana Republican Party Chairman
  • Robin Winston, Indiana Democratic Party chairman
  • Jack Colwell, political reporter, The South Bend Tribune
 
Noon - 1:30 Special Luncheon Program: "Frontloading and the Parties"
  • Jim Nicholson, Chairman, Republican National Committee
  • Joe Andrew, Chairman, Democratic National Committee
  • Leslie Lenkowsky, Professor, Indiana Uniersity-Indianapolis
 
1:45 - 2:45 "Covering and Explaining the Political Process in the Age of Front-Loading"
  • Walter Shapiro, political columnist, USA Today
  • Jonathan Karl, Washington correspondent, CNN
  • John M. Mutz, Visiting Fellow, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
 
2:45 - 3:00 Break
 
3:00 - 4:00 "Frontloading, the Parties, and the Public"
  • Curtis Gans, Director, Committee for the Study of the American Electorate
  • Andrew Busch, Professor, Uniersity of Denver (contributing author, In Pursuit of the White House: How We Choose Our Presidential Nominees
  • Brian Vargus, Director, Indiana University Public Opinion Laboratory
  • Marjorie Hershey, Professor, Indiana University-Bloomington
  • Peter Rusthoven
 
4:00 - 4:30 Concluding discussion, with audience participation
Ken Bode, moderator
  • Walter Shapiro
  • Curtis Gans
  • William Mayer
 
4:30 Adjourn
 
 

 

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