College of Humanities and Social Sciences

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From Window Magazine: All eyes on (this) Washington		2010-10-21
Koster camp explains pullout from debate with Larsen	Todd Donovan, a political science professor at Western Washington University, questioned if the decision by Koster's campaign could backfire. Most televised debates aren't heavily watched and the people who do tune in usually have already made up their…	2010-10-21
Dangers of distraction the focus of Oct. 20 talk at WWU	The ways in which people fail to see what's in front of them when distracted by a task is the focus of a Wednesday, Oct. 20, talk by Ira Hyman, a psychology professor at Western Washington University. His talk, "Unicycling Clowns, Train Wrecks and Pilots Forgetting to Land:…	2010-10-18
Study up, voters: Complex initiatives await you	Initiative campaigns are largely a phenomenon of America's Western states, said Todd Donovan, a political-science professor at Western Washington University who has authored books and articles on the process. As the West was settled, he said, populist groups…	2010-10-18
German's Sandra Alfers appears on radio show to talk about WWU		2010-10-15
Communication Sciences and Disorders to be reviewed for reaccreditation Nov. 8 and 9		2010-10-12
WWU's Michael Etnier awarded $126,000 grant to study archaeology and climate change in Alaska		2010-10-12
Undisclosed donors pump millions into state campaigns	A gold rush of local election-season advertising is pouring into Seattle media outlets, raising questions in some cases about who is trying to influence voters. Nearly $40 million in political advertising has been reserved or bought in the Seattle television market…	2010-10-12
'Perfect Storm' Could Pin Senate Majority on Late Washington State Returns	In seven of those races, the Republican candidates hold modest-to-comfortable-to-double-digit leads. The three uber-toss ups are Nevada, Illinois and Washington. Not only is Washington the last of those to close, with polls shuttering at 11 p.m. ET, the state's voting rules and reputation…	2010-10-08
Independent interest groups starting to pour money into 3rd District race	Such "soft money" spending is hard to track. It's even more difficult to determine who is behind it. "You can't just go to the Federal Elections Commission to easily find where they're spending the money," said Todd Donovan, a Western Washington…	2010-10-07

From Window Magazine: All eyes on (this) Washington

2010-10-21

Koster camp explains pullout from debate with Larsen

Todd Donovan, a political science professor at Western Washington University, questioned if the decision by Koster's campaign could backfire.

Most televised debates aren't heavily watched and the people who do tune in usually have already made up their…

2010-10-21

Dangers of distraction the focus of Oct. 20 talk at WWU

The ways in which people fail to see what's in front of them when distracted by a task is the focus of a Wednesday, Oct. 20, talk by Ira Hyman, a psychology professor at Western Washington University.

His talk, "Unicycling Clowns, Train Wrecks and Pilots Forgetting to Land:…

2010-10-18

Study up, voters: Complex initiatives await you

Initiative campaigns are largely a phenomenon of America's Western states, said Todd Donovan, a political-science professor at Western Washington University who has authored books and articles on the process.

As the West was settled, he said, populist groups…

2010-10-18

German's Sandra Alfers appears on radio show to talk about WWU

2010-10-15

Communication Sciences and Disorders to be reviewed for reaccreditation Nov. 8 and 9

2010-10-12

WWU's Michael Etnier awarded $126,000 grant to study archaeology and climate change in Alaska

2010-10-12

Undisclosed donors pump millions into state campaigns

A gold rush of local election-season advertising is pouring into Seattle media outlets, raising questions in some cases about who is trying to influence voters.

Nearly $40 million in political advertising has been reserved or bought in the Seattle television market…

2010-10-12

'Perfect Storm' Could Pin Senate Majority on Late Washington State Returns

In seven of those races, the Republican candidates hold modest-to-comfortable-to-double-digit leads. The three uber-toss ups are Nevada, Illinois and Washington. Not only is Washington the last of those to close, with polls shuttering at 11 p.m. ET, the state's voting rules and reputation…

2010-10-08

Independent interest groups starting to pour money into 3rd District race

Such "soft money" spending is hard to track. It's even more difficult to determine who is behind it.

"You can't just go to the Federal Elections Commission to easily find where they're spending the money," said Todd Donovan, a Western Washington…

2010-10-07