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Balancing Democracy


Long Island |  March 31
9 am–1 pm  |  Portledge School
Registration Form

Join alumni and friends at the Dartmouth Club of Long Island’s annual Stacey Coverdale Seminar, a Dartmouth on Location event: 

Balancing Democracy: Polarization, Divided Government, Broken Budgets, and the 2012 Elections

Cecilia Gaposchkin

Dean Lacy is a professor of government at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. His research and teaching focus on lawmaking, elections, public opinion, the presidency, and political leadership, particularly in the United States. He also uses and teaches research methods such as game theory, experiments, and statistics.

Professor Lacy has written and lectured on topics such as the sources of instability in public opinion polls, third-party candidates in elections, the effectiveness of economic sanctions in international relations, and designing optimal electoral rules.

He is the director of the Politics and Law Program at Dartmouth College and the advisor to the Dartmouth Political Union.

Program

9–9:30 am: Registration, coffee, bagels
9:30–11 am: "Setting the Stage for the 2012 Election: The Economy, Divided Government, and a Changing Population"
11–11:30 am: Break
11:30 am–1 pm: "Taxing, Spending, Red States, and Blue States: Why Congress and the President Can’t Balance a Budget"

Your registration fee of $35 includes: Presentations by Professor Dean Lacy, general discussion. 
Registration is requested. Please make your check payable to the Dartmouth Club of Long Island. 

Complete the registration form and send with payment to:

Chuck Kaufman ’60
64 Woodchuck Hollow Road
Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724

Location
Portledge School 
Duck Pond Road
Locust Valley, NY 11560

Find directions at www.portledge.org.