Newswise — There’s a lot at stake and a lot of issues with the Super Tuesday primaries, when millions of Republican and Democratic presidential primary voters and caucus goers will be a substantial force in determining who will become each party’s candidate for president in the 2016 elections.
Georgia State University has experts to cover the historic event in American politics from multiple angles, from how the candidates will stand, whose runs will most likely be at an end, the African-American vote, and the political rhetoric used by the candidates, as well as any effects on the ongoing battle to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat of the late Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, and also on the Affordable Care Act.
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Daniel P. Franklin is an associate professor of political science and is an expert on executive power, political culture, presidential legacies, and the relationships between the presidency and Congress. He is the author of “Pitiful Giants: Presidents in their Final Term” (Palgrave MacMillian, 2014) and “Politics and Film: Political Culture and Film in the United States” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006).More information is available at http://politicalscience.gsu.edu/profile/daniel-p-franklin/.
Sean Richey is an associate professor of political science and specializes in voting and elections, political communication, and political behavior. He is the author of “The Social Basis of the Rational Citizen: How Political Communication in Social Networks Improves Civic Competence” (Lexington Press, 2014), and has also authored articles on political discussion and persuasion.More information is available at http://politicalscience.gsu.edu/profile/sean-richey-2/.
Mary Stuckey is a professor of communication and is an expert on political and presidential rhetoric as well as media and politics. She has authored numerous articles on the subject and is the author of “The Good Neighbor: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Rhetoric of American Power” (Michigan State University Press, 2013), “Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and the National Agenda” (Texas A&M University Press, 2008), “To Slip the Surly Bonds: Ronald Reagan’s Challenger Address” (Texas A&M University Press, 2006), among other publications. More information is available at http://communication.gsu.edu/profile/stuckey/.
Maurice J. Hobson is an assistant professor of African-American studies. His research interests include urban and rural history, political economy, oral history and ethnography, 20th century U.S. and African American history, and an emerging field called Black New South Studies, looking at geopolitical, social and cultural developments among African-Americans into the 21st century. A native of Selma, Ala., Hobson is currently working on “The Legend of the Black Mecca and the Making of an Olympic City: Intersections of Race, Class, Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Black Atlanta, Georgia.”More information is available at http://aas.gsu.edu/profile/maurice-j-hobson/.
Erin Fuse Brown is an assistant professor of law in the Georgia State University College of Law’s Center for Law, Health and Society. Her expertise is in the Affordable Care Act, health care prices, health care costs, and health law and policy.More information is available at http://law.gsu.edu/profile/erin-fuse-brown/.
Eric J. Segall is the Kathy and Lawrence Ashe Professor of Law at the Georgia State College of Law. Segall, an expert on constitutional law, is the author of “Supreme Myths: Why the Supreme Court is not a Court and its Justices are not Judges” (Praeger, 2012). He is following the effects of Justice Scalia’s death on the Court’s docket, and has either written or been interviewed for multiple articles in the press about Scalia’s legal legacy and the future of the court.More information is available at http://law.gsu.edu/profile/eric-j-segall/.
Members of the media needing further assistance can contact Jeremy Craig, Public Relations Specialist in the central Public Relations and Marketing Communications department of Georgia State University, at 404-413-1374 or [email protected]; Ann Claycombe, Director of Communications for the College of Arts and Sciences, at 404-413-5047 or [email protected]; or Stacey Evans, Media Relations for the College of Law, at 404-413-9259 or [email protected].
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