Upcoming Lecture:
Homecoming Weekend - Saturday, November 1, 2008, 10:00 AM
The Next Government of the United States: Why Our Institutions Fail Us and How to Fix Them
Rosenwald Gallery, 6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, 3420 Walnut Street, (entrance by the Button on Locust Walk)
Free and open to the public (photo ID required at entrance)
Reservations appreciated, but not required RSVP HERE
Preeminent public policy expert, Donald F. Kettl, will lecture from his newly published book on how the process of governance has fallen out of sync with the problems the government is trying to solve. Pick almost any recent domestic concern -- waging a war, providing health-care coverage for an aging population or relief after a devastating hurricane -- and the standard response is to outsource most of the core tasks to thousands of independent contractors. Without anyone in charge, who can formulate innovative solutions to the increasingly complex problems the government faces? Kettl examines these questions, and offers some answers. Donald F. Kettl is Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is on the faculty of the Department of Political Science. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has regularly appeared on national television and contributed to op-ed pages in major newspapers, and is the author or editor of twenty books.
Previous lectures:
un-Spun: finding facts in a world of {disinformation}
Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication and Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania
An Agenda for Ethics in a Morally Divided America
Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law Anita Allen-Castellitto, University of Pennsylvania
GUN BARREL DEMOCRACY? Democratic Constitutionalism Following Military Occupation: Reflections on the US Experience in Japan, Germany, Afghanistan, and Iraq
Stanley N. Katz, Professor of Public and International Affairs & Director, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Princeton University
Enemy Aliens and American Freedoms: Liberty and Security After September 11
David Cole, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Let's Roll: America's Middle East Policy After 9.11
Robert Vitalis, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania
What's Wrong With Cloning Your Cat?
Arthur Caplan, Director of the Center for Bioethics and Chairman of the Department for Medical Ethics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Also read about the Bessie and Harry Bodek Music Classroom, a generous gift from Gordon S. Bodek.
