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Lugar-Mourdock race draws attention to Indiana – and to IU experts
Indiana University politics experts have been pulling double and triple duty in recent days, responding to interview requests from news media about the Indiana Republican primary election for U.S....
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It’s been a busy election season at IPFW’s Mike Downs Center on Indiana Politics
Where would you go to find information about Indiana elections and campaigns? The Mike Downs Center on Indiana Politics, of course. That’s where scores of state and national news reporters turned...
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Study of Twitter and elections sets news programs buzzing
IU sociologist Fabio Rojas and several colleagues used Twitter to measure “buzz” as a factor in the outcome of elections. Now their research is generating a lot of buzz in the media. It’s been featured...
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Why there’s no centrist third party in the US
With the national political parties and their loyalists growing more polarized, you’d think there would be an opening for a moderate third party to split the difference and become a force in American...
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Conservative attorney, Move to Amend director face off over campaign finance
James Bopp says corporations are collections of individuals that have come together for a specific purpose – so of course they should have the same rights that the Constitution guarantees to people....
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Campaign finance: Obvious problems, no easy answers
Guest post courtesy of IU Newsroom intern Annie Brackemyre An IU Bloomington panel of liberal, moderate and conservative political figures agreed that the money does matter when it comes to election...
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IUPUI scholar: ‘Divisive, sexist’ rhetoric still part of U.S. political culture
Post by IU Newsroom intern Annie Brackemyre Kristina Horn Sheeler, professor in the Department of Communication Studies and interim associate dean of academic programs in the School of Liberal Arts at...
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Foreign journalists tour Indiana for primary, get elections primer at IU
Post by IU Newsroom intern Annie Brackemyre Foreign journalists struggle just as much as domestic pundits trying to make sense of the lead-up to and results from this week’s unusually decisive Indiana...
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Stanford legal scholar is featured Constitution Day speaker at IU Bloomington
Pamela Karlan, a law professor at Stanford University and part of the legal team that overturned the federal ban on recognizing same-sex marriage in Windsor v. United States, will present a...
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Legal scholar: ‘Hydraulic system’ constrains elections, politics
We like to think elections are clear-cut affairs in which the people choose their representatives, but the reality is much more complex, legal scholar Pamela Karlan told an IU Maurer School of Law...
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‘Voting and Power’ panel sets stage for election-related events
IU Bloomington students will have plenty of opportunities to inform themselves about and engage with the 2016 elections thanks to a series of lectures, panel discussions and other events planned on...
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Historian to speak on Republican Party ‘crackup,’ rejection of moderation
Historian Geoffrey Kabaservice examined the Republican Party for his 2012 book “Rule and Ruin” and concluded it was headed for disaster. “What I saw was a party that had lost a lot of its moderate...
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IU’s Franklin Hall will be ‘election central’ Tuesday night
Planning to stay home and cower under the bed on election night? Here’s a better idea: Join IU Bloomington students, faculty and staff to watch election returns at Franklin Hall. The Franklin Hall...
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IU experts helping Europe make sense of U.S. elections
Indiana University Bloomington political scientist Jean Robinson will discuss the 2016 election results Thursday as part of a panel discussion at the IU Europe Gateway in Berlin. Robinson, professor in...
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