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For immediate release: February 23, 2001
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Common Cause chairman tackles campaign reform
WHO: Derek Bok, chairman of Common Cause and president emeritus of Harvard University
WHAT: Lecture on "Setting New Jersey’s Campaign Reform Agenda in 2001." Free and open to the public.
WHEN: Thursday, March 8, 2001 at 4:30 p.m.
WHERE: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall on the Princeton campus
Derek Bok is chairman of Common Cause, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that aims to ensure open, accountable government. He has written about campaign reform, arguing that soft money is a main cause of the cynicism "eating away at the vitality of our democracy and the willingness of citizens to participate in it."
Bok, the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University, has been a lawyer, dean of the Law School, and president of Harvard University. His most recent book is The Shape of the River (1998), co-authored with former Princeton University President William G. Bowen. Bok’s research interests include the state of higher education and the U.S. government’s response to domestic problems. His book, The Trouble with Government, will be published in March 2001.
This lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Common Cause of New Jersey. It is free and open to the public.
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