Department of Political Science

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 Thursday, April 26th in the Capitol Building, Rotunda; 5:30-8:30pm.  

SPACE IS LIMITED! Indicate your interest now. Visit The Career Center website to RSVP and for more information.

Meet with the top executives and decision makers from:

• ACLU of Idaho – Leo Morales
• Ada County Juvenile Court Services – Judge David Manweiler
• Ada County Sheriff’s Office – Sheriff Gary Raney
• Boise City Council – Councilman Ben Quintana
• Idaho Department of Health & Welfare (District 3) – Director Ross Mason
• Idaho of Veterans’ Affairs – Regional Director Jim Vance
• Idaho Hospital Association – VP of Governmental Relations Toni Lawson
• Idaho State Legislature – House of Representatives – Director of Government Affairs at BSU Bruce Newcomb
• State of Idaho, Office of Performance Evaluations – Director Rakesh Mohan
• The Nature Conservancy in Idaho – State Director Toni Hardesty
• The Washington Group (Washington DC) – Jennifer Kolb

Brian Wampler has been invited to make a presentation at the international Open Government Partnership (OGP) annual conference to be held April 17-18 in Brasilia, Brazil.

Last year seven governments, led by the United States and Brazil, initiated the OGP in an effort to encourage national governments to be more transparent and accountable.  This effort is being developed in conjunction with NGOs and other civil society organizations.  More than 30 countries are sending official delegations to the annual conference.

For more details, visit www.opengovpartnership.org/Brasilia2012.

This article originally posted in UPDATE.

Is there a right way to be a person? Does the quality of our community somehow depend on whether people live that way? Dr. Stewart Gardner was featured in a podcast that invites you to join in the exercise of cracking open such questions.

Read more and listen to the podcast on BEYOND THE BLUE.

For those interested in the political races happining this year be sure to read the Washington Post article Twenty years on, ‘Year of the Woman’ fades.  In the article Professor Gary Moncrief is quoted on the race in Idaho and how women are playing a part in that race.

In conservative Idaho, whose filing deadline was this month, nearly four in 10 of the Democratic candidates for the state legislature are women, while only 13 percent of the Republican candidates are, said Gary Moncrief, a political science professor at Boise State University.

“In other words, a Democratic candidate is three times more likely to be a woman than is a Republican candidate,” he said. “In Idaho, it isn’t a gender gap; it’s a gender chasm.”

This story was first published in UPDATE.

Gary Moncrief was quoted in a report on WUWM Milwaukie Public Radio on efforts to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Moncrief said that no matter what other political issues have arisen in Wisconsin during the past year, he expects a recall election to focus on unions’ collective bargaining rights, a divisive issue in that state. Read the story here.

This story originally appeared in the UPDATE.