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ALAN ROSENTHAL Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University. He served as director of the Institute from 1974-1994. He has collaborated in activities with the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), the Council of State Governments (CSG), and the State Legislative Leaders Foundation (SLLF). He has supervised comprehensive studies of legislative organization and procedures commissioned by the legislatures of Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, Mississippi, and Wisconsin and has worked with legislatures in 30 other states. Currently, he is working with NCSL, the Center for Civic Education and Indiana University's Center on Congress on the development and communication throughout the states of curricular materials for civic education on representative democracy. His lesson, "Appreciating Democracy," is being used in high schools around the country. He is currently working on another lesson, "Appreciating Representation," which is being tested in high schools in a number of states. In New Jersey he chaired the Ad Hoc Commission on Legislative Ethics and Campaign Finance, which in 1990 was appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly and President of the Senate. In 1992 and 2001 he was selected to be the independent member and to chair the New Jersey Congressional Redistricting Commission. In 1993 he received the Governor's Award for Public Service in New Jersey. Currently, he is chair of the Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards. In 1995 he received the American Political Science Association's Charles E. Merriam Award which honors a person whose published work and career represent a significant contribution to the art of government through the application of social science research. In 2006 he was given a career achievement award as "Champion of the Legislative Process" by NCSL and SLLF. His writing on state legislatures and state politics includes Legislative Life (Harper and Row, 1981); Governors and Legislatures (CQ Press, 1990); The Third House: Lobbyists and Lobbying in The States, 2d edition (CQ Press, 2001); Drawing the Line: Legislative Ethics in the States (University of Nebraska Press, 1996); The Decline of Representative Democracy (CQ Press 1998); Republic on Trial: The Case for Representative Democracy, with John Hibbing, Burdett Loomis, and Karl Kurtz (CQ Press, 2002); and Heavy Lifting: The Job of the American Legislature (CQ Press, 2004). His latest book is Engines of Democracy: Politics and Policymaking in State Legislatures (CA Press, 2009). . |
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