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...When Alexander Keyssar ’69, a Kennedy School democratization expert, voiced some opposition to the war in Iraq during a radio interview, a conservative policy expert also being interviewed called him “a friend of Saddam Hussein...
...spend a lot of time attributing responsibility to those other than himself. “What I found strange was that the article seemed to be suggesting that Harvard and the academic world were somehow responsible for his pro-war views,” said Kennedy School professor Alexander Keyssar ’69, who has known Ignatieff since they were graduate students. “Yet most of the faculty I know here opposed the war.” Kennedy School professor Stephen M. Walt, who opposed the war from the beginning, said Ignatieff’s article...
Voting in one’s home state, rather than from a school address, is not a new trend, said Alex Keyssar ’69, Stirling professor of history and social policy at the Kennedy School of Government. He said there has been a movement to increase absentee voting within the last 20 or 30 years, probably in an effort to increase voter turnout. The trend of voting from a college address has become more available only in the latter half of the 20th century, due to less stringent definitions of what constitutes residency, said Keyssar...
...don’t see strategic voting as an ethical issue because people have ties to both places—that’s always been one of the complexities of student voting,” Keyssar said. “Strategic voting is really a contradiction—it is a phenomenon created by the Electoral College. It is a logical response to the system as it is now structured. The electoral college has done that. Students haven’t done that...
...increase turnout by 5 percent, he’ll win,” Keyssar said...