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...always reminded that a president is president until January 20," says the K-School's Carl M. Brauer, who last year published a book studying presidential transitions since Dwight D. Eisenhower took over from Harry Truman in 1952. "Authority does not shift until then, but power shifts at the election or before the election in this case. Reagan has handed over some of his major appointments. Bush has called the shots in the cabinet...
...K-School press experts say that the reporters who cover the transition are usually the same reporters who covered the winning candidate's campaign...
Coverage on newspaper editorial pages also comes up short, according to Martin A. Linsky, a former editorial writer for the Boston Globe who now teaches at the K-School. Editorial writers, he says, fail to try to influence policy decisions during the transition...
Williams, who was a fellow at the K-School's Institute of Politics in 1979-1980, says she hopes her current appointment as professor of electoral politics will give her an opportunity to "work on a new agenda for the opposition parties...and sit down and look at our problems with people from other countries." She says, "The Kennedy School is quite a good place to do it." She also covered this fall's American presidential election for the BBC and may write a book...
Ellsberg Speaks At K-School Forum...