Presidential Election and Congressional Races. Kenneth Bickers, professor and chair of the political science department, can comment on this year's presidential election and congressional races in Colorado and the nation. He also can address the youth vote, campaign issues and tactics and what polling can tell us. Bickers will be available for telephone interviews on election night to print and broadcast reporters who make arrangements with him in advance at bickers@colorado.edu or 303-492-2363.
Presidential Election and Congressional Races. Scott Adler, associate professor of political science, can comment on the 2008 presidential election, Colorado congressional races and several national congressional races. Adler will be available by cell phone on election night. To request his cell phone number contact Adler by e-mail at e.scott.adler@colorado.edu or contact Peter Caughey at 303-492-4007. Adler's office number is 303-492-6659.
Colorado Political Races and Issues. Michael Kanner, instructor of political science, can discuss many of Colorado's political races and issues, political advertising, political rhetoric, American foreign policy, terrorism, the U.S. military and defense issues. He is currently teaching courses on national security and symbolic politics. His publications have focused on the effect of issue framing on decision making. Kanner is teaching on election night and will not be available for interviews. At other times he is best reached by e-mail at michael.kanner@colorado.edu. His office number is 303-492-8637.
Youth Civic Identity. Michael McDevitt, associate professor of journalism and mass communication, can discuss how schools, parents, churches and peer groups contribute to the ideological and partisan identities of youth in red states and blue states. While parents and churches are more important factors in conservative regions, social studies curricula, news media and peer groups appear more consequential in liberal communities. His current research traces patterns of influence in five red states and five blue states. About 600 youth were interviewed before and after the 2006 midterm elections, and a subsample was interviewed again after the Super Tuesday 2008 primaries. He can be reached at 303-735-0460 or michael.mcdevitt@colorado.edu.
Western Issues and the Presidential Election. Patty Limerick, professor of history and environmental studies, and faculty chair of the Center of the American West, can discuss Western issues in this year's presidential election and whether or not they are being addressed by the candidates. Limerick also can discuss how changes in the American West are affecting this year's presidential election and the candidates' campaigns, how many current issues have roots in the region's past, the maverick tradition in the Rocky Mountain West, how U.S. political parties have changed over time and colorful characters in Western political history. Limerick is best reached through Amanda Dixon at 303-492-4879. Her e-mail address is patricia.limerick@colorado.edu.
Media Coverage of the Presidential Race. Elizabeth Skewes, assistant professor of journalism and mass communication and author of the recently published "Message Control: How News is Made on the Presidential Campaign Trail," can discuss the factors that influence news coverage of presidential candidates during the campaign, candidate legitimacy and the press, trends in news coverage of both political conventions and the primaries in newspapers and popular magazines, and content analysis of the 2008 campaign. Skewes can be reached at 303-709-6958 or elizabeth.skewes@colorado.edu.
Political Advertising. Margaret "Meg" Campbell, associate professor of marketing in the Leeds School of Business, can discuss political advertising and presenting candidates as "brands." She can be reached at 303-735-6305 or Meg.Campbell@Colorado.EDU.
The National Economy and the Presidential Election. Richard Wobbekind can provide insights on the local, state, regional and national economies. He leads a comprehensive annual forecast of the state economy that CU-Boulder has issued for decades. An economist, Wobbekind is an associate dean at the Leeds School of Business and director of the school's Business Research Division. He can be reached at 303-492-1147 or richard.wobbekind@colorado.edu.
Subprime Mortgages. Sanjai Bhagat, professor of finance in the Leeds School of Business, can address the credit crisis brought on by the subprime mortgage industry. Bhagat's research interests include corporate lawsuits and business valuation and his teaching interests include corporate finance and governance and also entrepreneurial finance. He can be reached at 303-492-7821 or Sanjai.Bhagat@Colorado.EDU.
Investment Banking and Derivatives. Chris Leach, professor of finance and Robert H. and Beverly A. Deming Professor in Entrepreneurship at the Leeds School of Business, can address issues and concepts related to corporate bailouts. His research interests include corporate and venture financing, mergers and acquisitions, structure of securities markets, real options, information economics and game theory. His teaching interests include corporate and venture financing, derivative securities markets and investment banking. He can be reached at 303-492-5665 or Chris.Leach@Colorado.EDU.
Investment Banking and Corporate Mergers. Ron Melicher, professor of finance in the Leeds School of Business, can discuss corporate mergers, bankruptcy and other restructuring; asymmetric information and financial signaling topics; and entrepreneurial finance issues. His teaching interests include business financial management, applied corporate finance with case applications to financial management topics and issues, and investment banking. He can be reached at 303-492-3182 or Ronald.Melicher@Colorado.EDU.
Derivative Securities and Risk Management. Nathalie Moyen, associate professor of finance in the Leeds School of Business, can address issues related to risk management. Her research interests include capital structure and corporate investments and her teaching interests include derivative securities. She can be reached at 303-735-4931 or Nathalie.Moyen@Colorado.EDU.
Securities Valuation. Michael Stutzer, professor of finance in the Leeds School of Business, can address the continuing development of a unified approach to investment; securities valuation; and valuation model parameter estimation based on the statistical theory of large deviations. His teaching interests include financial theory and fixed-income securities analysis. He can be reached at 303-492-4348 or Michael.Stutzer@Colorado.EDU.
Real Estate Markets. Tom Thibodeau, Global Real Estate Capital Market Chair, CU Real Estate Center, can address concepts and issues related to capital markets, the rating agencies and the subprime mortgage industry. His research interests include measuring and modeling spatial and temporal variation in real estate prices, identifying real estate submarket boundaries and real estate investment. He can be reached at 303-735-4021 or Tom.Thibodeau@Colorado.EDU.
Consumer Shopping Behavior. Donnie Lichtenstein, professor of marketing at the Leeds School of Business, can address purchasing behavior, consumer perceptions of sale techniques and of price advertising, consumer price quality perceptions and consumer response to corporate responsibility. He can be reached at 303-492-8206 or Donald.Lichtenstein@colorado.edu.
Religion and Politics. Stewart M. Hoover, professor of journalism and mass communication and director of CU-Boulder's Center for Media, Religion and Culture, can discuss how religion is involved in politics and how the news media cover those issues. He can be reached a 303-492-4833 or hoover@colorado.edu.
Political Leaders and Hubris. Mathew Hayward of the Leeds School of Business can discuss the challenge for leaders to avoid moving from healthy self-esteem to self-destructive grandiosity. "There is nothing worse than pretending you are more than you are, or pretending you are someone you are not," Hayward said. "Leaders must work actively to undertake the necessary checks to their egos that will defuse their own hubris." An associate professor of management and author of "Ego Check: Why Executive Hubris Is Wrecking Careers And Companies And How To Avoid the Trap." Hayward believes many of the same factors that lead executives to self-destruct can affect candidates and office holders. Hayward can be reached at 303-735-6515 or mathew.hayward@colorado.edu.