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EVENT SCHEDULE:
Thursday, Sept. 27
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| 3 p.m. |
Registration Opens |
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| 3:45 p.m. |
Opening Remarks - David Yepsen, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute |
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| 4:00p.m. |
Reformers Panel: What Have Been the Problems in Illinois and How
Should We Fix Them: Where Do We Go From Here?
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Moderator: Paul Green, Roosevelt University |
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Panelists: |
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Brian Gladstein , Illinois Campaign for Political Reform |
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Andy Shaw , Better Government Association |
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Brad McMillan , Center for Principled Leadership |
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Terry Pastika , Citizen Advocacy Center
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| 5:30 p.m |
Reception |
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| 6:15 p.m. |
Polling Data: A New Simon Institute Poll on the Attitudes of Illinois voters Toward Reform Measures |
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Charles Leonard , Paul Simon Public Policy Institute |
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| 7:00p.m. |
Painting the National Landscape - A Portrait of State Ethics |
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Natalie Wood and Peggy Kerns, National Conference of State Legislatures |
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Friday, Sept.28
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| 8:30 a.m. |
Keynote Address: The Problems of Ethics in Government, Michael Josephson, Founder and President, The Josephson Institute
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9:20-
10:35 a.m |
Academic Papers and Panel Discussion. Moderator: Linda Baker, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute. |
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Panelists: |
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Dick Simpson , University of Illinois -Chicago, "Chicago and Illinois, Leading the Pack in Corruption"; |
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Jim Nowlan , University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, "The History of Corruption in Illinois"; |
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David Hamilton and Dwight Gard , Texas Tech University, "The Illinois Culture of Corruption and Comparisons with Texas"; |
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Raymond Scheele and Joe Losco, Ball State University, "The Illinois Culture of Corruption and Comparisons with Indiana." |
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Richard Winters , Dartmouth College, "Unique or Typical: Political Corruption in Illinois"; |
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10:45 a.m.
-Noon
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Academic Papers and Panel Discussion. Moderator: John S. Jackson, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute. |
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Panelists: |
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Michael Miller , University of Illinois Springfield, "Public Election Funding After McComish";
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Scott Comparato,Southern Illinois University Carbondale, "On Court Races and the Problem of Campaign Finance: Caperton vs. Massey"; |
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Timothy Krebs , University of New Mexico and Fraser S. Turner, Master of Urban Affairs and Public Policy, Loyola University Chicago, "Campaign Finance
Reform in Illinois: An Examination of the 2011 Chicago Mayoral Election"; |
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James Merriner, Writer and Editor, Chicago, "Undoing Reform: Personal PAC v. Illinois State Board of Elections." |
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| Noon |
Buffet Lunch |
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12:30 p.m.
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Keynote Address: Alan Rosenthal, Professor of Public Policy, Rutgers University |
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1:30-
2:45 p.m |
The Policy Change Panel: What is to be Done? Moderator: Mike Lawrence, retired director, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute. |
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Panelists: |
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Kent Redfield , U of I Springfield and Cindi Canary, Chair of City of Chicago Ethics Reform Task Force and Former Director of the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, "Lessons Learned: What the Success and Failures of Recent Reform Efforts Tell Us About the Prospects for Political Reform in Illinois"; |
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Robert F. Rich, retired director, Institute of Government and Public Affairs "Public Learning: Transforming Beliefs and Attitudes"; |
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Natalie Wood and Peggy Kerns, National Conference of State Legislatures; |
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Chris Mooney, University of Illinois Springfield |
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| 3:00 p.m |
Concluding Remarks, David Yepsen, Director, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute |
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