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ADVISORY
ATTENTION:
POLITICAL EDITORS AND REPORTERS
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08/09/00
Contact: Janet Gilmore
(510) 642-5685
jeg@pa.urel.berkeley.edu
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WHAT: |
"Money and Influence
in Politics," a two-day conference being held at the University
of California, Berkeley, by the nation's leading scholars
of campaign finance.
These experts will
discuss topics such as contributions and influence; soft
money issue ads; and self-financed campaigns. Researchers
will present surprising new data including an analysis
of state political parties and their use of soft money
contributions.
The conference
is being held by UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental
Studies and the Citizens' Research Foundation, a non-profit,
nonpartisan organization dedicated to research and public
education in political finance and regulation. The foundation
moved from the University of Southern California to UC
Berkeley in 1999, becoming an affiliate of the Institute
of Governmental Studies.
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WHEN: |
Saturday, Aug.
12, 9:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 13,
10 a.m. to noon.
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WHERE: |
The
Institute of Governmental Studies Library, 1111 Moses Hall,
UC Berkeley. |
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WHO: |
Scholars from a
dozen universities including UC Berkeley, Stanford University,
Boston College, Georgetown University, MIT, New York University,
and the University of Michigan.
Rep. Martin Meehan
(D-Mass.), co-author of the Shays-Meehan campaign finance
reform bill (the U.S. House of Representatives' version
of the McCain-Feingold bill), will give an address during
lunch, noon - 1:30 p.m.
The conference
is being funded by grants from The Carnegie Corporation
of New York and the Steven and Michele Kirsch Foundation
of Silicon Valley.
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NOTE:
For additional
information, including a complete schedule of program participants
and discussions, contact Gerald C. Lubenow at the Institute
of Governmental Studies, (510) 642-5158, or jlubenow@uclink4.berkeley.edu.
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