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Bangladesh Army Chief General Moeen denies corruption

charges

[More details of ethics violation]

October 21st, 2007 by Hasibul Haque

General Moeen U Ahmed

Bangladesh army chief of staff General Moeen U Ahmed has denied all corruption charges labeled against him as 'propaganda'. He said the propaganda was aimed to malign him at a time when he was taking a trip in USA and UK and was enjoying widespread support from the expatriate Bangladesh community.

General Moeen, who is currently on a trip in the US, told a Voice of America interviewer that he borrowed Tk 2.5 million($36000) and not Tk 9.9 million($141000) as alleged by the Bangladeshi bloggers who first posted their findings from Bangladesh securities and exchange commission website filings by Trustbank Bangladesh - a bank whose chairman is General Moeen and whose board of directors consists a brother of General Moeen. Iqbal Ahmed, a brother of General Moeen, was already the Managing director of Trustbank when General Moeen was appointed Chairman.

Mr. Iqbal was re-appointed as a member of the board of directors in 2006 by General Moeen and others apparently in violation of Bangladesh Central Bank's regulation that no two members of a family can be in the board of directors of the same bank.

General Moeen, according to Trustbank's filings, has only 100 shares in the bank and would thus be eligible for a loan not exceeding Tk 500 ($7) as per Bangladesh Central Bank regulations - which far exceeds the Tk 2.5 million($36,000) loan he admitted in the interview with VOA. TrustBank had its IPO in Dhaka Stock Exchange recently and its shares have appreciated significantly since the IPO.
Bangladesh's current army-backed interim government came to power last January after violence between two major political parties, BNP and the Awami League, claimed several lives in the streets of capital Dhaka and brought the country to a standstill.

The current interim government has made anti-corruption drive as its prime goal before holding general elections in the country by December 2008. It has made many high-profile arrests including that of two former prime ministers on charges of corruption.
General Moeen himself has on many occasions reiterated that the goal of the current government is to rid the country of corruption and bring the offenders to face justice.

The news of alleged corruption by General Moeen has taken many Bangladeshis by surprise and are expecting a public explanation from the General.

http://www.bloggernews.net/111095

Also, please see:

  http://www.csebd.com/cse/download/Prospectus_TRUSTBANK.pdf

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[chottala.com] An Unseen Thread of All Political Connections by Chowdhury Irad Ahmed Siddiky, JD, LLM, Ph.D

An Unseen Thread of All Political Connections

[A letter to Weekly Holiday's Editor reflects on the hidden family bonded political connections in Bangladesh. It was published at Holiday on July 27, 2007]

Gregorian connection helps

Dear Editor:
Bangladesh is a relatively new country, only 36 years old. The educated middle-class of Bangladesh since the partition of India was very small. It used to be so small that everyone knew everyone. Through inter-marriage, kinship and common privilege, the highly homogeneous and well educated Bengali Muslims of Bangladesh preserved their own ethnic, social, religious, cultural and class integrity in a well insulated society that used to be free from the kind of diversity of ideas and beliefs to which Bangladesh has been exposed to and had lived through recently, more so in the aftermath of the vast exodus of its population to the Western world in quest of a better life and opportunities.

Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed is a very close family friend. He went to St. Gregory's High School in Dhaka with my father. It is the St. Gregory's High school in Old Dhaka that educated Bangladesh's first generation of post-independence elites. Some of its distinguished Alumni are: Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed; Dr. A.Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury; Dr. Kamal Hussain; Rehman Sobhan; K.M. Hasan; Dr. Osman Farooque; Iqbal Bahar Choudhury; Chowdhury Tanbir Ahmed Siddiky; Dr. Abdul Moin khan and many others who gave leadership to Bangladesh.

Dr. Fakhruddin married the daughter of an East Pakistan Civil Service office Giasuddin Chowdhury from Sylhet. Giasuddin Chowdhury made all of his sons Civil Servants of Pakistan (CSPs). They Are: Faruk Chowdhury (former Foreign Secretary, advisor AL) Enam Ahmed Chowdhury (former Chairman, Privatization Board, advisor BNP), Masum Ahmed Chowdhury (Ambassador and former Chairman, Oriental Bank) and Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury (heretofore Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to U.N. who has been made the CTG Advisor).

Dr. Fakhruddin belongs to the 'golden days' of the United Pakistan that rewarded a section of the elites of East Bengal with coveted Civil Service positions and opportunities to pursue higher education overseas. For Dr. Osman Farooque (same batch and a close friend of Dr. Fakhruddin) this was Cornell; for Dr. Fakhruddin it was Williams and Princeton. They did not come to the United States as ordinary citizens of East Pakistan trying to escape the repressive West Pakistani regime, but they were stoic members of the elites of East Pakistan who calculated what Pakistan had to offer them. Since Pakistan was as much foreign to them as any other, they opted for better opportunities in a real foreign country like the United States where they made good use of their exile.

Both Dr. Fakhruddin and Dr. Osman Farooque followed identical career paths. They married beautiful Bangladeshi ladies of high pedigree, both have 2 houses each in suburban Washington DC and both worked for the World Bank until it was time for them to reconnect with their Old Gregorian boys network. They were introduced to the BNP chairperson by a school friend at the apex of the BNP political network. The childhood friend ensured the Bangladesh Bank governorship for one and a BNP ticket to run from Kishorganj for the other. This highly powerful Gregorian friend of Fakruddin and Osman Farooque proved so formidable that the sitting BNP MP from Kishorganj had to be sacrificed at Dr. Farooque's alter. It was a Gregorian gang of 5 friends that also included a former BNP Jute Minister, all of whom planned to be in the cabinet holding 5 portfolios at the same time.

Although Bangladesh is a country of 130 million, the country itself actually belongs to only 5000 people. The rest are to be governed by what the Romans used to call "with bread and circus". It is therefore not surprising to see the same actors back to power with a different hat. Both Enam Ahmed Chowdhury and Faruk Chowdhury are vying for BNP and Awami League nominations respectively. Whichever party comes to power, it really does not matter. The siblings of Giasuddin Chowdhury who once campaigned for Sylhet to be part of Assam, will always have his family representation in the apex of Bangladesh. As for the sons of Dr. Osman Gani, they are not doing too bad either. One was Bill Clinton's Ambassador to Fiji, the only Bangladeshi American ever to represent the US as its Ambassador overseas; and Dr. Osman Farooque did rather well as Khaleda Zia's Education Minister. Bangladesh rewards those who reward themselves.

Chowdhury Irad Ahmed Siddiky, JD, LLM, Ph.D
Washington DC, USA.

http://home.att.net/~csiddiky/

 

 

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[chottala.com] "I have failed to please my master : NBR chairman Badiur Rahman [Outgoing]

Badiur Rahman walks out on govt
 
 
Mon, Oct 22nd, 2007 7:18 pm BdST
 
Badiur Rahman ( Photo: Courtsey, The New Age, Dhaka)
Badiur Rahman ( Photo: Courtsey, The New Age, Dhaka)

"I have failed to please my master. I have never bowed my head to anybody except Allah in my life,"

- Badiur Rahman, Outgoing NBR Chairman

Dhaka, October 22 ( bdnews24.com) -- Outgoing NBR chairman Badiur Rahman Monday said he had sought voluntary retirement from public service.

"I have failed to please my master. I have never bowed my head to anybody except Allah in my life," Rahman told reporters at the National Board of Revenue office.

Rahman, who was appointed the country's chief revenue collector on Jan 21, was transferred to the Food and Disaster Management Ministry in a major administrative reshuffle on Oct 18. The same day, he applied for voluntary retirement, to be effective from Nov 22.

In a press briefing Monday, Rahman said: "The government should consult secretaries before their transfer. It helps their work and the ministry also benefits. A secretary is transferred without any reason. What is this?"

Mohammad Abdul Majid, a member of the Planning Commission, replaced Rahman as NBR chairman.

In Monday's press conference, Rahman said he had submitted two other applications to the government in addition to his request for retirement.

He also sought one month's leave, to be effective from Oct 22, and appealed for compensation for his "financial loss" incurred as a result of not being promoted to secretary in March 2006 when many other officials were promoted to secretary.

Rahman claims he achieved eligibility for the post while serving as an additional secretary.

Asked how hopeful he was about his applications, Rahman said: "I have taken these decisions after much thought."

"There will be no change in my decision, regardless of who asks. I have decided to retire from government service with honour."

"As the chairman of the NBR I discharged my responsibilities with sincerity in the nine months of my service."

"The media extended their cooperation, which inspired me in my work. I think the cause of my transfer may be the wide coverage I received in the media," Rahman said.

The former chief revenue collector added that he still harboured some concerns over the coverage of the caretaker government's anticorruption drive, saying: "Some will go scot-free."

"If I had remained in the post of chairman of the NBR, revenue earnings would have been higher. The tendency to pay tax among people in rural areas has increased," he said.

Rahman was scheduled to go on leave preparatory retirement on January 29, 2009.

Asked whether he was transferred for not working according to the World Bank-IMF diktat, he said: "I won't say anything about it. I always working keeping the interest of the country in mind."

"IMF said the revenue target for the current fiscal year was ambitious. I said it was not at all ambitious. This target can surely be achieved if work is done properly."

Rahman said revenue collections grew 19 percent in three months (July-September), which was 17 percent in the same period a year ago. "I proved I was right."
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From: Shahid
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Re: [chottala.com] For showing the transference for stoping ill propagandas & to proof that Present CTG is really working by Eradicating Corruption for Establishing Justice of Law & Lawful Administration in the country CTG is needed to take wealth statement publicly for keeping record as future reference of All High Officials such as Judges of Supreme Court High Court all Judicial Departments All High Ranking Officers of Army Police Income Tax Customs Land Tax Revenue All Security Departments All Secretariats & Other Departmental Personals All Advisors of CTG & President of Bangladesh. How General Moeen U Ahmed earns over 66 lakh taka in one year?

For showing the transference for stoping ill propagandas & to proof that Present CTG is really working by Eradicating Corruption for Establishing Justice of Law & Lawful Administration in the country CTG is needed to take wealth statement publicly for keeping record as future reference of All High Officials such as Judges of Supreme Court High Court all Judicial Departments All High Ranking Officers of Army Police Income Tax Customs Land Tax Revenue All Security Departments All Secretariats & Other Departmental Personals All Advisors of CTG & President of Bangladesh.
 


ASharif311@aol.com wrote:
Hello all,
As we are saying 'No one is above the law' but we do not have that situation, culture in our country. This individual (Moeen and his supporters) at least trying to create a situation that never existed in our country.
Honestly, I do not know (probably none of us) any of these individuals’ character or personal honesty. 

If these individuals had done any wrong or even doing any wrong that will eventually come out. There is no question about it. 

In my opinion, what we are seeing these days in Bangladesh. It should have done years ago, which our two ruling parties failed to do.   

We need change. We need leaders who can make changes to our policies, politics and society. Let's hope for the best instead to making water dirtier just to save corrupt individuals. 
My personal opinion is ………….These corrupt people do not cost anything for my motherland.  If Mr. Moeen is also one of them we will flash him out too..


-----Original Message-----
From: ASharif311@aol.com
To: chottala@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:22 am
Subject: RE: [chottala.com] Attn: Mr. Alim Sharif - Re: How General Moeen U Ahmed earns over 66 lakh taka in one year?




From: Syed Aslam <Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 7:46 PM
To: chottala@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [chottala.com] Attn: Mr. Alim Sharif - Re: How General Moeen U Ahmed earns over 66 lakh taka in one year?

 
WRT:
 
Dear All
No one should be above the laws, no matter what kind of
camouflage he/she is wearing. The question regarding the source
of earning 66 lakh Taka in one year by an armed force personal is
not baseless. It is very clear from the prospectus that General
Moeen U Ahmed made the transaction within in one year.
[see
page number 20]
 
General Moeen U.  pretends to be a "Transperency Guru" and
a firm believer of "the rights of the public for freedom of
information".  He may be given some benefits of doubt.
 
But, since the question has been raised he should come forward
and disclose his finances and the details of accumulation of wealth
over the years. He may have gotten the money from his rich


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[chottala.com] David C. King's Resume

David C. King

John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

79 John F. Kennedy Street / Cambridge, MA 02138 / 617-495-1665

Research Focus and Activities

Legislatures and representation

Elections and election administration

The mobilization and political attitudes of young people

Harvard University

John F. Kennedy School of Government

Lecturer in Public Policy,

since July 2004

Associate Professor of Public Policy,

July 1996 - July 2004

Assistant Professor of Public Policy,

July 1992 - July 1996

The Institute of Politics

Faculty Chair

: Newly Elected Members of the U.S. Congress, since 1996

Research Director,

2002- 2007

Interim Associate Director,

2003 – 2006

Government Department

Lecturer on Government,

since 2006

Executive Committee: Center for American Political Studies,

since 2005

Education

Ph.D. 1992, A.M

. 1990, (Political Science), The University of Michigan .

A.B. 1985, (Government), Lawrence University.

Books

David C. King & Zachary Karabell.

The Generation of Trust: How the U.S. Military has Regained the Public's Confidence since Vietnam . (The American Enterprise Institute, 2003) (Click here for a review in Foreign Affairs )

David C. King.

Turf Wars: How Congressional Committees Claim Jurisdiction. (University of Chicago Press, 1997). (Click here for a review in the American Political Science Review)

Joseph S. Nye, Philip Zelikow & David C. King (eds.).

Why People Don't Trust Government . (Harvard University Press, 1997). Also published in Japanese (Tokyo: Eiji Shuppan, 2002)

Articles and Book Chapters

Alexander S. Belenky & David C. King. "A Mathematical Model for Estimating the Potential Margin of State Undecided Voters in a U.S. Federal Election." Mathematical and Computer Modeling. 45:585-93: March, 2007.

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David C. King. "The 2005 Presidential Election and Constitutional Reform in Bolivia." Revista. Spring/Summer 2006: 11-15.

David W. Nickerson, Ryan D. Friedrich, David C. King. "Partisan Mobilization Campaigns in the Field: Results from a Statewide Turnout Experiment in Michigan."

Political Research Quarterly, March 2006, 59:85-98.

David C. King & Miles Pomper. "Congress, Constituencies, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Caspian," in Brenda Shaffer, ed.,

The Limits of Culture: Islam, Foreign Policy & the Caspian. Cambridge: MIT University Press, 2005

David C. King & Miles Pomper. "Congress and the Contingent Influence of Diaspora Lobbies: U.S. Foreign Policy toward Armenia."

Journal of Armenian Studies, December 2004.

David C. King & David Morehouse. "Moving Voters in the 2000 Presidential Campaign: Local Visits and Local Media." In David Schultz, ed.

Lights, Camera, Campaign. New York: Peter Lang. 2004.

David C. King & Richard E. Matland. "Sex and the Grand Old Party: An Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Candidate Sex on Support for a Republican Candidate."

American Politics Research, November 2003.

David C. King & Richard L. Zeckhauser. "Congressional Vote Options,"

Legislative Studies Quarterly, August 2003, 28:387-411.

Jonathan C. Borck, David C. King, Richard J. Zeckhauser. "Contribution Shares in Alliances."

Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Alliances, Mergers, and Acquisitions . Banff, Canada. July 3, 2003.

Richard E. Matland & David C. King. "Women as Candidates in Congressional Elections." in Cindy Simon Rosenthal, ed.,

Women Transforming Congress. University of Oklahoma Press, 2002

David C. King. "Catching Voters in the Web," in Elaine C. Kamarck & Joseph S. Nye, Jr., eds.,

Governance.com: Democracy in the Information Age. Washington, DC: Brookings Press, 2002. Revised and updated from Kamarck & Nye, eds. Democracy.com? Governance in a Networked World. Hollis, New Hampshire: Hollis Publishing. 1999

Contributor, in chapters 5 and 7:

To Assure Pride and Confidence in the Electoral Process . The National Commission on Federal Election Reform. July 31, 2001

Tim Groseclose & David C. King. "Committee Theories Reconsidered

, " in Lawrence C. Dodd & Bruce I. Oppenheimer (eds.), Congress Reconsidered, 7th edition. Washington, DC: CQ Press. 2001

David C. King & Richard J. Zeckhauser. "Legislators as Negotiators," in Robert H. Mnookin & Lawrence E. Susskind (eds.),

Negotiating on Behalf of Others. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications. 1999

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Tim Groseclose & David C. King. "The Little Theatre: Committees in Congress," in Herbert Weisberg & Samuel Patterson (eds.),

Great Theatre: The American Congress in the 1990's. Cambridge University Press, 1998. Reprinted in Kelly D. Patterson & Daniel Shea, ed., Contemplating the People's Branch, New York: Prentice Hall, 2000

David C. King. "The Polarization of Political Parties and Mistrust of Government," in Joseph S. Nye, Philip Zelikow & David C. King eds.,

Why People Don't Trust Government. Harvard University Press, 1997

David C. King. "Reform and Deliberation in the United States Congress."

Proceedings of the International Seminar on Governmental Reform Policy . Seoul: Korean Association for Policy Studies, 1995

David C. King. "The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946," and "The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970," in Donald C. Bacon, Roger H. Davidson, and Morton Keller (eds.),

The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress, Simon & Schuster, 1995, pgs. 1279-81

David C. King. "The Nature of Congressional Committee Jurisdictions,"

The American Political Science Review , March 1994, 88:48-62

Gregory B. Markus, Jeffrey P. Howard, & David C. King. "Integrating Community Service and Classroom Instruction Enhances Learning: Results from an Experiment,"

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Winter 1993, 15:410-19

David C. King & Jack L. Walker. "The Provision of Benefits by Interest Groups in the United States,"

The Journal of Politics , May 1992, 54:394-426

David C. King & Jack L. Walker. "An Ecology of Interest Groups" (Chapter 4) and "The Origins and Maintenance of Interest Groups" (Chapter 5) in Jack L. Walker,

Mobilizing Interest Groups in America, University of Michigan Press, 1991

John E. Jackson & David C. King. "Public Goods, Private Interests, and Representation,"

The American Political Science Review , December 1989, 83:1143-64

Institute of Politics Survey Reports

"The 12

th Biannual Youth Survey on Politics and Public Service." April 27, 2007.

"The 11

th Biannual Youth Survey on Politics and Public Service." November 1, 2006.

"Religion, Morality and Political Activism on College Campuses in the United States." April 11, 2006.

"Redefining Political Attitudes and Activism." November 16, 2005.

"The Global Generation." April 19, 2005.

"Coming of Age: The Political Awakening of a Generation." October 21, 2004.

"College and University Voter Mobilization Efforts." September 13, 2004.

"Are You Taking To Me? A Guide to Reaching Young Voters." August 14, 2004.

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Conference and Working Papers

David C. King. "A Blueprint for Transforming the Boston Election Department." April 7, 2007.

David C. King, Richard L. Zeckhauser & Mark T. Kim. "The Management Performance of the U.S. States." July 8, 2004.

David C. King. "Congress, Polarization, and Fidelity to the Median Voter." March 10, 2003.

David C. King & Richard L. Zeckhauser. "Punching and Counter-Punching in the U.S. Congress: Why Party Leaders Tend to be Extremists." December 9, 2002.

David C. King. "Selling International News." December 9, 2002.

David C. King. "Party Competition and Fidelity to the Median Voter in the U.S. Congress." February 15, 2001

David C. King & Rebecca Hardiman. "The Constitutionality of Congressional Involvement in Federal Elections." January 25, 2001

David C. King, Andrew Cooley, Julie Curtis. "Interesting News: The Attributes of Popular Stories in the Times Mirror Interest Index." January 11, 1999

David C. King. "The New Political Machine" and "Political & Demographic Characteristics of Web Users in Late 1997",

Visions of Governance in the 21st Century conference on the Information Revolution, July 1998

David C. King. "Stability and Change in U.S. Politics." Aspen Strategy Group, U.S. - Russia Dialogue. Queenstown, Maryland. June 14, 1998

Tim Groseclose & David C. King, "Committee Theories and Committee Institutions." Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Washington. August 29, 1997

David C. King, David Eddy-Spicer, Howard Husock, "Riding a Dark Horse: Exploring the Dynamics of a Presidential Campaign via Hyperspace." Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Washington. August 29, 1997

David C. King, Richard L. Zeckhauser, Sven E. Feldmann. "Winning by a Little and Losing by a Lot on Congressional Roll Call Votes." Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago. April 7, 1995

David C. King. "Public Goods, Private Interests, and Participation in Congressional Committee Hearings." John F. Kennedy School of Government Working Paper R9313. June 21, 1993

David C. King. "The 1981 White House Conference on Aging: Political Activities and Funding Sources of Included and Excluded Groups." May 5, 1992

David C. King. "Congressional Committee Jurisdictions and the Consequences of Reform," Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago. April 19, 1991

David C. King. "Congressional Committee Jurisdictions and Institutional Change: The 1946 Legislative Reorganization Act," Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco. August 31, 1990

David C. King. "The Strategic Timing of Campaign Contributions in the Michigan Legislature." April 15, 1989

David C. King. "Representation Through Participation in Committee Hearings: Ways and Means Committee Members and the 1978 Revenue Reform Act." Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 13, 1989

David C. King. "Interest Groups and Pollution on the Rhine River: A Comparative Politics Approach. Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 13, 1989

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Professional Activities

Faculty Affiliate

: Harvard University, Center for Public Leadership

Faculty Affiliate

: Harvard University, Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences

Faculty Moderator

: Political Institutions Seminar, Wexner-Israel Fellows, 1993 - 2006

Director

, Task Force on Election Administration, Carter-Ford National Commission on Federal Election Reform, January 2001 to October 2002

Faculty Director

: Executive Program for Russian Federal Assembly, April 1994 to December 2003

Faculty Sponsor

: Youth Engagement Initiative, Harvard University, Institute of Politics, 2001

Associate Directo

r: Harvard University, Visions of Governance for the 21st Century. 1995 – 1997

Section Head

: Political Parties and Interest Groups. Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meetings, 1995

Courses:

Politics of the U.S. Congress (Government Department: GOV1300), since 2006; The U.S. Congress and Lawmaking, since 1992; Interest Group Activism & Representation, 1997-2003; U.S. Political Parties in Theory & Practice, 1998-2003 ; Public Policy Prescription and Action, 1999; Elective and Advocacy Politics, 1993-1997; Doctoral Research Seminar, 1993-1996. Faculty Chair for the Kennedy School Area Concentration in "Measuring and Influencing Opinion."

Invited Talks

and Public Testimony (selective list): "Early Voting," Massachusetts Joint Committee on Election Laws (2007); The Cal-Tech/MIT Voting Technologies Project (2007), The Institute for Social Planning, Moscow (2007), The American Red Cross (2006), "Perspectives on Constitutional Reform in Bolivia," Catholic University of Bolivia (2005), Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics (2005), West Point Military Academy (2005), Mojmir Povolny Lecture, Lawrence University (2005), Groupe d'étude et de recherche sur la sécurité internationale, Montreal, Canada (2004), "The Power of One: Youth Vote Summit" (2004), "The 2004 U.S. Presidential Elections in Perspective," U.S. Mission to the United Nations (2004), Break Away (2004), Voting, Vote Capture, and Vote Counting Symposium (2004), U.S. Marine Corps Recruiting Command (2004), U.S. House Select Committee on Homeland Security (2003), Foreign Ministry and Trade Representatives, Government of Panama, Panama City (2002), Young President's Organization of Guatemala, La Antigua (2002), Moderator: Massachusetts Republican Lt. Governor's Debate (2002) Princeton University Conference on Trust in Government (2001), Society for Social Studies of Science (2001), National Institute for Government Innovation (2001), Moderator: Massachusetts 9th Congressional District Democratic Primary Debate (2001), Voting Rights Institute (2001), The Congressional Black Caucus (2001), The Johnson Foundation, (2001), Harvard Law School, Electoral Reform Project (2001), House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference (2001), " Dimples, Chads, Butterflies," Institute of Politics (2000), American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation (2000), John C. Stennis Congressional Staff Fellows (2000), Yale University Institution for Social and Policy Studies (2000), Harvard Conference on Internet and Politics (2000), The Center for the Study of the American Presidency (2000), The General Accounting Office (2000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1999), Defense Science Board Task Force on Human Resources Strategy (1999), Northeast Fish & Wildlife Conference (1999), Duke University (1999), University of North Carolina at

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Chapel Hill (1999), Columbia University, (1998), National Association of Schools of Public Administration, Washington (1998), State Duma of the Russian Federation, Moscow (1997), Laura B. Moore Memorial Lecture, League of Women Voters (1997), Universidad Catolica de Nicaragua, Managua (1996), Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago (1995, 1996); Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, Iowa (1995); University of Stockholm, Sweden (1995, 1996); Korean Association for Policy Studies, Seoul (1995); Main Hall Forum Lecture Series, Lawrence University (1993, 1995, 1998); Phillips Lecture Series, The University of Michigan (1992)

Opinion Pieces

(selective list): "New Orleans Vote Raises Fairness Issue," Boston Globe, April 18, 2006. "Bolivian Constitutional Reform," Pulso , November 25, 2005; "Youth Came Through with Big Turnout," Boston Globe, November 5, 2004 (reprinted in Opposing Viewpoints: America's Youth, 2007), "Electoral Reform 2004," November 1, 2004. " Engage Children in Elections," The Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel, October 17, 2004. "The Politics of DisIntegration," Spectacle.org, August 18, 2004. "The Boomers' Babies," Wall Street Journal , March 31, 2003; Book Review of Eric Schickler's Disjointed Pluralism in the American Political Science Review , September 2002. Election Reform as an Unfunded Mandate, Boston Review, October/November 2001; There is Hope for Election Reform, KSG Q&A July 31, 2001, Federal Government's Role in Election Reform, KSG Q&A March 13, 2001, "Youth Doubt Government, Trust Military," USAToday.com, August 25, 2000. " Who Votes?" USAToday.com, August 18, 2000. "Real Term Limits," USAToday.com, August 11, 2000. "Who's Partying?" USAToday.com, August 4, 2000. "Those Pesky Third Parties ," DemocracyToday.com, August 1, 2000. E-Mobilizing Your Supporters," The Boston Globe, May 21, 2000. "The Trouble with (Republican) Women," JFK Bulletin, Summer 1999. "Clinton Erred Using Line Item Veto," Newsday , August 13, 1997. "Campaign Reform is the Public's Duty," Newsday , March 6, 1997. "A Concrete Example of Politics in Action," in Teaching and Learning at Harvard University , 1997. "Primaries are a Noble Idea Gone Sour," Newsday, March 21, 1996. "How Did Pundits Get it So Wrong? Ask a Statistician," (with Richard Zeckhauser), Roll Call, November 14, 1994. "Sorry, Clinton, Congress is Number One," Newsday , November 11, 1994; "Saving the Clinton Presidency," The Washington Times , September 22, 1994. "Vote Against Term Limits," Boston Sunday Herald , April 10, 1994. "The New Congress and Prospects for Reform," JFK Bulletin, Fall/Winter 1993

Faculty Sponsor, Kennedy School Teaching Cases

: "Debt Relief for Poor Nations: The Battle in Congress" (2001), "Congressional Oversight and Presidential Prerogative: The 1991 Intelligence Authorization Act" (2001), " Third Party Time?" (1995), "Catastrophic Health Insurance for the Elderly" (1995), "Emily's List and Campaign Finance Reform" (1994), "Public Conversations and Legislative Deliberations" (1994), "Epilogue: The Regulation of Mudflaps" (1994).

Community Activities

Elected

Town Meeting Member, Belmont, MA, April 2002

Boards

: Kids Voting USA, since 2006 ; Youth Voter Corps, 2001 to 2004 ; Common Cause, National Governing Board, 1993 to 1996; Chair, Public Service Achievement Awards Committee, 1996 ; Board of Directors and Treasurer, Common Cause in Michigan, 1988 to 1992; Wisconsin Higher Educational Aids

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Board

, Financial Aid Committee, representing all private college students in Wisconsin , 1983 to 1984.

Transition Team, Policy Planning Committee

: Massachusetts State Treasury, Secretary Tim Cahill, 2002-2003

Honors

Richard F. Fenno Prize

for the "Best New Book on Legislatures," Turf Wars , 1998

Current

Outstanding Academic Book Award, Why People Don't Trust Government , 1998

E. E. Schattschneider Prize for the best dissertation in American Government, awarded by the American Political Science Association,

1993

Things that Might not Belong on an Academic Vita

: Born 1963; Senior Common Room Fellow, Eliot House, Harvard University; "Airplanes and Little Kids ," The Boston Parents Paper; December 1995; "Notes on the Uniform Distribution ," The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History, 1995; "Bye-Bye Bottle ," The Boston Parents Paper, September, 1994; "John Kingdon as an Agenda Item," Policy Currents, August 1994. Worked at Arthur Andersen & Company as a Management Consultant, 1985-1986. Appleton (Wisconsin) East High School, Speech Team Coach, 1983-1985. Played "Civilian at Hospital Nurses' Station" on ABC's All My Children, October 20, 1997; Rank of Corporal in the Heritage Military Music Foundation.

Updated September 2007

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