Release date: Sept. 13, 2004

Partisanship Focus of National Political Forum Sept. 17

Contact:
Elaine Justice, 404-727-0643, elaine.justice@emory.edu
Deb Hammacher, 404-727-0644, deb.hammacher@emory.edu

Emory University political scientist Alan Abramowitz, a nationally known expert on politics, polling and voter behavior, will participate in a briefing this week on "Political Parties and Partisanship: A Look at the American Electorate," sponsored by the Brookings Institution and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

The event, to be held Friday, Sept. 17 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., is the first of five roundtable discussions planned this fall in connection with the 2004 election campaign.

Abramowitz, the Alben W. Barkley Professor of Political Science, will participate in a discussion on the current state of partisan attachments in the American electorate, how these attachments develop and change, and how they shape political attitudes and perceptions. Panelists also will assess how partisanship affects voting behavior and whether or not swing voters and competitive districts are disappearing from the American political landscape.

Other panelists include: Princeton University's Larry M. Bartels, the Donald E. Stokes professor of Public and International Affairs; Yale University's Donald Green, the A. Whitney Griswold professor of Political Science, and director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies; and John Harwood, political editor at The Wall Street Journal

The Brookings Institution, one of Washington's oldest think tanks, is an independent, nonpartisan organization devoted to research, analysis and public education with an emphasis on economics, foreign policy, governance and metropolitan policy.

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