FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

RE: THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION - FROM THE INSIDE

If you are preparing a story on the Democratic National Convention in Boston and the US Presidential race and are seeking expert commentary from inside the convention, please call 310.338.2389 for an interview with:

MATTHEW STREB, PhD
Assistant Professor, Political Science,
Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: electoral politics, politics of race

Streb is the co-author of Polls and Politics: The Dilemmas of Democracy with Michael A. Genovese, and is the author or editor of four books, including The New Electoral Politics of Race (University of Alabama Press, 2002), and Election Law and Electoral Politics (Lynne Rienner Publishers, forthcoming 2004). Streb has published articles in Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, and Politics and Policy, among others, and is a frequent radio and television commentator, appearing on C-Span's "Washington Journal," Fox News, and "Today in LA."

Or

MICHAEL A. GENOVESE, PhD
Chair of Leadership Studies and Director of the Institute for Leadership Studies,
Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: the presidency and political leadership

Genovese has authored 15 books. Most recently he is the co-author of Polls and Politics: The Dilemmas of Democracy with Matthew Streb, due out in March. He also has written The Power of the American Presidency 1789-2000 (Oxford University Press, 2001), The Paradoxes of the American Presidency, and The Presidency and Domestic Policy.

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