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STATEMENT OF PROFESSORS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, GOVERNMENT, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, AND PUBLIC POLICY ON EFFORTS TO ALTER NEW YORK'S ELECTORAL PROCESS

We applaud Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's leadership in the weeks following the attack on the World Trade Center. The Mayor has been a unifying force, galvanizing the spirit of the city in these terrible days.

As professors of political science, public administration, and public policy, we also know that ours is a government of laws and not of persons. At a time of crisis, one of the greatest responsibilities of leadership is to assure the people of the stability and continuity of the democratic order. This is not achieved by interrupting the electoral process and interfering with the peaceful transfer of power which is the hallmark of democratic systems. We oppose all of the current efforts at this time to extend the Mayor's term of office or to alter New York City's electoral process.

Signatories: (Institutional affiliations for identification purposes only)

Co-chairs:
Frederick S. Lane, Baruch College, CUNY
Marilyn Rubin, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Robert Y. Shapiro, Columbia University
Kenneth Sherrill, Hunter College, CUNY

Signatories (List in formation, institutional affiliations for identification purposes only)
Martha Ackelsberg, Smith College
Bruce E. Altschuler, SUNY, Oswego
Nancy Aries, Baruch College, CUNY
Sherrie Baver, City College, CUNY
Neil G. Bennett, Baruch College, CUNY
David Birdsell, Baruch College, CUNY
Mark Blasius, City University of New York
Stephen Brier, CUNY Graduate Center
D. Christopher Brooks, St. Olaf College
Paisley Currah, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Lorraine Bayard de Volo, University of Kansas
Kenneth Paul Erickson, Hunter College, CUNY
L. E. Feinberg, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Ester Fuchs, Barnard College and Columbia University
Vincent Fucillo, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Joyce Gelb, City College, CUNY
Marilyn Gittell, CUNY Graduate Center
Michael Goodhart, University of Pittsburgh
Margaret Groarke, Manhattan College
John Harbeson, City College, CUNY
Ronald Hayduk, Borough of Manhattan Community College
Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University
Mark Holzer, Rutgers University, Newark
David R. Jones, Baruch College, CUNY
Ted Joyce, Baruch College, CUNY
Roger S. Karapin, Hunter College, CUNY
Stuart J. Kaufman, University of Kentucky
Dolores Kazanjian, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Mark Kesselman, Columbia University
Frank Kirkland, Hunter College, CUNY
Michael Krasner, Queens College, CUNY
Henry Krisch, University of Connecticut, emeritus
Fred Lazin, Ben Gurion University (Israel)
Roy Licklider, Rutgers University
Steve London, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Christopher Malone, Pace University
Irving Leonard Markovitz, Queens College
Kristin Monroe, University of California-Irvine
Ruth O'Brien, John Jay College, CUNY
Rosalind Petchesky, Hunter College, CUNY
Edward V. Schneier, City College, CUNY
Raymond A. Seidelman, Sarah Lawrence College
Carroll Seron, Baruch College, CUNY
Raymond A. Smith, Hunter College, CUNY
Philippa Strum, (emerita) Brooklyn College, CUNY
David Stuligross, Colgate University
Harold J. Sullivan, John Jay College, CUNY
Charles Tien, Hunter College, CUNY
Joan C. Tronto, Hunter College, CUNY
William Voorhees, John Jay College, CUNY
John R. Wallach, Hunter College, CUNY
Lynn Weikart, Baruch College, CUNY
Ernesto Zirakzadeh, University of Connecticut


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