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WAMC's In Conversation with...
Alan Rosenthal
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Alan Rosenthal is Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University. He served as director of the Institute from 1974-1994.
He has collaborated in activities with the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), the Council of State Governments (CSG), and the State Legislative Leaders Foundation (SLLF). He has supervised comprehensive studies of legislative organization and procedures commissioned by the legislatures of Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, Mississippi, and Wisconsin and has worked with legislatures in 30 other states. Currently, he is working with NCSL, the Center for Civic Education and Indiana University's Center on Congress on the development and communication throughout the states of curricular materials for civic education on representative democracy. His lesson, "Appreciating Democracy," is being used in high schools around the country. He is currently working on another lesson, "Appreciating Representation," which is being tested in high schools in a number of states.
His writing on state legislatures and state politics includes Legislative Life (Harper and Row, 1981); Governors and Legislatures (CQ Press, 1990); The Third House: Lobbyists and Lobbying in The States, 2d edition (CQ Press, 2001); Drawing the Line: Legislative Ethics in the States (University of Nebraska Press, 1996); The Decline of Representative Democracy (CQ Press 1998); and Republic on Trial: The Case for Representative Democracy, with John Hibbing, Burdett Loomis, and Karl Kurtz (CQ Press, 2002). His latest book is Heavy Lifting: The Job of the American Legislature (CQ Press, 2004). He is currently working on a book exploring policy making in the states.
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