Everyone's focus is on catching up and getting through exams right now, but it's never too early to think about summer opportunities. Application deadlines come up faster than you might expect. Below are a few useful links to get going on summer planning:
Taubman Center for Public Policy's Guide to Internships
Career Development Center (duh)
A list of think tanks
The American Political Science Association's Internship Resources
Don't forget: professors are probably the best resources, since they can (and are eager to) share personal experience, professional insight, and their networks with you.
Events this week:
- Internship, Research and Funding Showcase, Wednesday, 5-7 pm: Alumnae Hall
- Janus with Prof. Lawless: Why Are There so Few Women in Politics? Wednesday, 7-8 pm: B&H 166
- Juan Pablo Luna on Unpacking the Concept of Party System Institutionalization in Latin America, Wednesday, 5 pm: McKinney Conference Room (Watson)
- Jarat Chopra on The Neutralization of Impartiality in Peacekeeping, Friday, 4 pm: Joukowsky Forum
- "Politics of Presence? Congresswomen and Symbolic Representation" Political Research Quarterly: Do a little background reading before attending the Janus Conversation event on Wednesday. Reading your own faculty's academic work is always interesting.
- "Romanian Socialists Win Most Votes on Social Spending Promises" Bloomberg: A quick summary of very recent election returns in Romania.
- Update: Here is another article on the Romanian election from Reuters.
- "The New Power Landscape" National Journal: A fascinating look at the shifting balance of interest groups, lobbyists, and the like on the Hill. Central topics include measuring the strength of Obama's ties to labor and breaking down business's defense strategies.
3 comments:
Actually, after counting 92% of the votes the numbers are pretty different:
Social Democrat Party + Conservative Party alliance = 33%
Democratic Liberal Party = 32.57%
National Liberal Party = 18.32%
Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania = 6.29%
Both "Liberal" parties consider themselves to be on the (economic) right. It's unclear what coalition will emerge. DLP and NLP won the 2004 elections together as the "Justice and Truth" alliance and SDP spent two years in the opposition. The alliance then dissolved and NLP formed a new one with SDP.
Don't be fooled by the names and keep in mind that almost only the elderly voted for the SDP + Conservative alliance and that it doesn't have much to do with US-style left wing politics, despite the fact that "Conservative Party" is a misnomer too.
Ideology is not that relevant in Romanian politics.
Great, thanks for your comment, Tiberiu. We'll be on the look out for a better article once everything is sorted out. Email us if you find one that you like.
"PDL wins Romanian election
03/12/2008
BUCHAREST, Romania -- The Liberal Democratic Party (PDL) won the general election, according to Central Electoral Bureau results released late Tuesday (December 2nd). Although the party lost the popular vote by a small margin Sunday, the new majority system worked largely to its advantage. As a result, the PDL won 138 of the 333 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 58 of 137 seats in the Senate, or slightly above 40% of seats in both chambers. The coalition of the Social Democratic Party and the Conservative Party trails by 21 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and by three in the Senate, finishing firmly in second place. The incumbent ruling National Liberal Party won just around 11% of seats in both chambers, receiving over 18% of the popular vote. The Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania was more or less unaffected by the new system, gaining 6.91% of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 6.57% of seats in the Senate. Final results are expected on Thursday. (Hotnews.ro, Gandul - 03/12/08; Mediafax, Xinhua - 02/12/08)"
http://setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/newssummary/#setimes/newsbriefs/2008/12/03/nb-01
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