THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

October 28, 1999

9:15 Introduction and welcoming comments
Russell Dalton, UC Irvine

9:30 The State of American Politics Today
Norman Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute

11 The Changing Congress
Chair: Mark Petracca, UCI
Presenters:
Barbara Sinclair, UCLA
Nelson Polsby, UC Berkeley

12:15 A Presidential Strategy in Crisis
James McGregor Burns, Williams College
(in Crystal Cove Auditorium)

2:00 Primary Madness: The Frontloaded System of 2000
Chair: Carole Uhlaner, UCI
Presenters:
Martin Wattenberg, UC Irvine
Austin Ranney, UC Berkeley
David Magleby, Brigham Young University

3:30 Race and Politics: A Look Toward the Future
Bernard Grofman, UC Irvine
Katherine Tate, UC Irvine

4:30 Closing remarks from Jack Peltason

7:30 The Inaugural Peltason Lecture on Democracy
(in Crystal Cove Auditorium)
An Address by
Paul Simon, Former U.S. Senator from Illinois
and Southern Illinois University

UC Irvine Center for the Study of Democracy