Associate Professor Brenda Bushouse was an invited speaker at the University of Colorado, Denver at an event featuring Elinor Ostrom,  2009 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics.  The presentation was part of a symposium on the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework developed by Ostrom and colleagues at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University.  Papers from the symposium will be published in a special issue of the Policy Studies Journal.

Like Barack Obama, Billy Kenoi ’93 is a native Hawaiian who ran against an older, more experienced candidate for office last November. And, like Obama, Kenoi triumphed. “Seeing the newspaper with the headlines ‘Obama Wins; Kenoi Wins’, gave me goose bumps,” he says.

Professor Fountain’s keynote, “E-Government: Institutional Challenges and Building Regional Knowledge Sharing” addressed the major institutional hurdles to and developments in e-government in the United States over the last decade. It also outlined steps taken by the current administration to use new technologies to bring about openness in government.