Political Science Department
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| Census figures bring 10th representative, more clout to Washington state | Washington's presence in Congress is going to get larger and its clout in electing the next president stronger. |
2010-12-22 | |
| What do the academics say? Tax and public support | Welcome to the latest in our occasional series highlighting interesting findings from academic research. This time it is a paper from David Brockington (University of Plymouth) and Todd Donovan (Western Washington University) looking at the political impact of increasing taxes. |
2010-12-09 | |
| EDITORIAL: Restrict initiatives? One professor prefers the Washington system | Washington, Oregon and California have what is known as “direct democracy.” That’s the political scientists’ term for the initiative and referendum. Voters can adopt state laws without help from the legislature. |
2010-11-18 | |
| Forum on health care policy to take place Nov. 17 on campus | 2010-11-12 | ||
| Republican tide ebbs in Issaquah-area races | Observers said the national GOP tide fizzled in the Evergreen State due to the nature of the local electorate. |
2010-11-10 | |
| Republicans roll in Whatcom County, but region loses clout in Olympia | Pundits questioned the influence of the conservative tea party movement. Even locally, the Bellingham Tea Party said the 2010 mid-term elections were crucial to see whether the movement lived. Whatcom County appears to have been one of the major bastions for the conservative movement in… |
2010-11-04 | |
| Koster, Larsen vote gap shrinks; both expect victory | Koster benefited from a national wave of Republican candidates ousting incumbent Democrats amid concerns about the economy and record federal debt. Voters in the 2nd District, like many around the country, were most focused on jobs and the economy, said Todd Donovan, political science professor… |
2010-11-04 | |
| Larsen combats tea party surge in bid for 6th term | "It's a mirror of what you're going to see in Washington's Senate race: Larsen is really big on constituent service, bringing things back to the district, and the challenger is hammering on wasteful spending, wasteful spending," says Todd Donovan, a political science… |
2010-11-02 | |
| Big money beigng spent in state's initiative campaigns | Numerous ballot measures competing for voters' attention in Washington state have led to a record amount of combined money spent on campaigns ranging from liquor privatization to imposing an income tax on the state's highest earners. |
2010-11-01 | |
| Big money being spent in state initiative campaigns | One upside to the increase in money, said Western Washington University political science professor Todd Donovan, is the increase in voter exposure to those arguments both for and against measures. |
2010-10-29 |