October 8, 2004
USC Law School, Room 1

Sponsored by USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics and the Initiative and
Referendum Institute



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Keynote Address: Senator Bob Graham (D-FL)

8:30  Continental Breakfast and Check-in

9:00  Welcome by Dean Matthew Spitzer

9:15 - 10:35  The Initiative and Referendum Process     Notes from Presentations

Tracy Gordon, Research Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California

John Matsusaka, Professor of Business and Law, USC; President, Initiative and
Referendum Institute at USC

Daniel Smith, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Florida

Garry South, political consultant; former Senior Political Advisor to Governor Gray Davis (D-CA) and
the presidential campaign of Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT).

Moderator : Matthew L.. Spitzer, Dean of the Gould School of Law at USC and Carl Mason Franklin Professor of Law and Political Science

10:35 - 10:50  Break

10:50 - 12:10   The First Campaign under BCRA's Rules     Notes from Presentations

D. Bruce La Pierre, Professor of Law, Washington University -- St. Louis; Counsel for Respondents in Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC

David Magleby, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, BYU; Director, Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy

Spencer Overton, Associate Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School

Larry Norton, General Counsel, Federal Elections Commission, Washington, DC

Moderator : Elizabeth Garrett, Professor of Law and Communication, USC; Director, USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics

12:30 - 2:15  Lunch and Keynote Address has been moved to
                     Town and Gown

Introduction of Keynote Speaker: Sim Farar

Keynote Address: Senator Bob Graham (D-FL)

2:40 - 4:00  Polarized Voters and Politics     Notes from Presentations

R. Michael Alvarez, Professor of Political Science, Caltech; Associate Director, USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics

Mickey Edwards, Lecturer of Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-OK)

Gary Jacobson, Professor of Political Science, University of California -- San Diego

Janelle Wong, Assistant Professor of Political Science, USC

Moderator : Ann Crigler, Professor of Political Science, USC; Director, Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics

4:00 - 4:10  Break

4:10 - 5:30  Political Communications, the Media and the Internet    Notes from Presentations

David Brock, President and CEO, Media Matters for America

John Fund, Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal

Thomas Hollihan, Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Annenberg School for Communication, USC

Vincent Price, Steven H. Chaffee Professor of Communication and Political Science,
University of Pennsylvania

Moderator : D. Roderick Kiewiet, Professor of Political Science, Caltech

5:30  Concluding Remarks
         Debra Farar

5:45  Cocktails and Watching the Presidential Debate
         Law School's Carl M. and Carolyn C. Faculty Lounge, Room 433

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Contact Information

Elizabeth Garrett
Professor of Law, USC Law School
Director of the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics
egarrett@law.usc.edu

This conference has been generously supported by the Sim and Debra Farar Family Foundation.

Undergraduate participation is supported by the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at USC.