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...means of stimulating decision-making, and MPP students are required to participate in a short work-shop or cooperative experience with a government agency. The school's active faculty includes some of the luminaries of the Cambridge-Washington shuttle: Allison, John T. Dunlop, Lamont University Professor, and Richard E. Neustadt, professor of Government. Adjunct lecturers, including Massachusetts State Rep. Barney Frank and former CIA employee Robert T. Kiley, chairman of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, are brought in for substantive teaching roles. The Kennedy School's Institute of Politics offers several programs and study groups on the more political side...
However, most of the obstacles to readibility occur when Kearns haphazardly crowds the book with prevalent theories of political science. Machiavelli and de Tocqueville, those great legitimators of political science, are invoked and footnoted indiscriminately. Government professor Richard Neustadt's conjectures about presidential power, especially his discovery of the president's power to persuade, glut the book (the manuscript is dedicated to him). And in one oddly placed threepage section we get an introductory American government syllabus including statements on the growth of the imperial presidency, reduced prestige of the cabinet, decline of political parties, weakening of congressional leadership...
...source in the Udall campaign said yesterday that Richard E. Neustadt, professor of Government, and Owen J. Gingerich, Professor of Astronomy and the History of Science, contributed money to that organization...
...Neither Neustadt nor Gingerich could be reached for comment yesterday...
Patricia A. Graham, dean of the Radcliffe Institute, Robert J. Kiely, Professor of English and Master of Adams House, Richard E. Neustadt, Professor of Government, and James C. Thomson Jr., lecturer on General Education and Curator of the Nieman Fellowships will assist journalists from the WashingtonPost, the Chicago Tribune and The Louisville Courier-Journal in choosing the 39th annual group of fellows...