Volume 5, No. 1, Spring 2001
Internet Politics
John Kerry
John Kerry, serving his third term as a United States Senator representing Massachusetts, has worked to define America's role in the world, reform public education, address children's issues, grow the economy and encourage the growth of the high tech New Economy, and protect the environment. A member of the Senate Finance Committee and senior member of the Commerce Committee, John Kerry is the Ranking Member on the Senate Small Business Committee and has served for sixteen years on the Foreign Relations Committee. Senator Kerry also services in the Senate Democratic Leadership as Chairman of the Steering and Coordination Committee.
The Internet and Campaigns: Interactively Empowering Citizens
Wes Gullett and Max Fose
Wes Gullett is the founding partner of Integrated Web Strategy. The company provides Internet consulting services for business, organizations and political campaigns. He also served as Deputy Campaign Manager for McCain 2000 during John McCain's campaign for the Republican Presidential Nomination. Gullett was educated at the University of Iowa. Max Fose is a partner with the firm Integrated Web Strategy (IWS). Recently, he was the Internet Manager and Treasurer for the McCain 2000 presidential campaign. He is a graduate of Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona and currently resides in Washington, D.C.
The Presidential Nominating System and the Dynamics of Change
Dr. Andrew E. Busch
This essay examines change in the presidential nominating system, starting with historical development from the 1790s to the present day. It then examines the possibility that the highly frontloaded and compressed primary schedule represents a fundamentally new nominating system. It concludes with a look at proposed reforms to the nominating system and at the factors that militate against dramatic change in the near future, despite broad dissatisfaction with the system.
Andrew E. Busch is an Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Denver, where he specializes in American national government and politics. Professor Busch has authored or co-authored five books on American elections, including "The Perfect Tie: The True Story of the 2000 Presidential Election", as well as several articles and book chapters. He received his Ph.D. in government from the University of Virginia in 1992.
Small States First; Large States Last: Toward a Sports Playoff System of Presidential Primaries
Robert D. Loevy
The year 2000 presidential primaries and caucuses treated the 50 states of the United States in an unfair and unequal manner. A relatively limited number of states exerted a great deal of influence over the presidential nomination process while other states had virtually no effect whatsoever. A study of the relevance and irrelevance of each individual state to the presidential nominating process reveals that only 10 states consistently were relevant from the 1992 presidential election through the year 2000 presidential election. In an effort to make all 50 states and the District of Columbia relevant to the presidential nominating process, a reform is presented that has lightly populated states voting first and heavily populated states voting last. The proposed reform uses a "sports playoff system" to progressively eliminate candidates from the presidential nomination race and maintain interest in the primaries and caucuses through the final primary and caucuses day. The general theme of the reform is: "One political party member, one vote for the party nomination for President".
Robert Loevy is a professor of Political Science at Colorado College where he has taught since 1968. He received a B.A. from Williams College in 1957 and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University in 1963. He regularly teaches courses in American Government, State and Local Politics, and the Civil Rights Movement. He is the author of several books, including "The Flawed Path to the Presidency 1992: Unfairness and Inequality in the Presidential Selection Process" and "To End All Segregation: The Politics of the Passage of the American Civil Rights Act of 1963".
Digital Government: A Primer for Public Managers
Rowan Miranda
Advances in information technology are changing the face of public sector planning, administration, and policymaking. This article reviews the three major areas where such change is taking place: government-to-government (G2G), government-to-citizen (G2C), and government-to-business (G2B). In each of the areas, technology is radically reducing transaction costs faced by government in interacting with its employees, suppliers, and citizens. While the use of the Internet is still its nascent stages in the public sector, it nevertheless holds the promise of addressing stereotypical problems associated with government: bureaucracy, paperwork, red tape, and the lack of market discipline.
Rowan Miranda is Director of Research and Consulting for the Government Finance Officers Association. He is also Editor-in-Chief of "Government Finance Review", the leading practitioner journal in public finance. He has assisted more than fifty state and local governments with technology procurement and implementation decisions. Dr. Miranda was formerly CFO of the City of Pittsburgh, PA and Allegheny County, PA. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy where he teaches graduate courses in finance and digital government.
Measuring the Social Benefits of the Grameen Telecom Village Phone Program
Philibert de Imus, Yazmin Ozaki Kiyan, Stacy Lingamfelter
Philibert de Imus and Stacy Lingamfelter are joint MBA/MPP students at the University of Chicago. Yazmin Osaki Kiyan is a graduate student in Public Policy at the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago.
Book Reviews
For Common Things (1999) by Jedediah Purdy, Knopf Publishing Group
Clare Nolan
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