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Until 1978, John William Ward '45 had no practical experience in state politics. But Ward, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Politics, is now heading an IOP seminar on corruption and reform in Massachusetts...
...Ward, president of Amherst College until 1979, picked up first-hand knowledge of the intricacies of Massachusett's contract awarding system after his appointment by former Gov. Michael Dukakis three years ago to head an investigative commission on state-funded construction...
...Ward graduated from Harvard in 1947 after two years of military service and never pursued a political career. He chose, instead, to pursue an academic career in history, his field of graduate study. He accepted professorships first at Princeton and then at Amherst before becoming Amherst's president in 1971. The 1978 bill creating the anti-corruption commission required that the governor appoint a college president as chairman; Ward admits that Amherst's prestige and its distance from the state capital made him a natural choice...
...pattern of graft and illegal campaign contributions which Ward's commission discovered is providing the source material for his IOP study group, which is examining the investigation's findings on a case-by-case basis...
Widespread tolerance in Massachusetts of the corrupt system has kept it alive, Ward says. The former American history professor believes the public's corruption may stem from the "political culture" of Massachusetts. Because immigrant ethnic groups in Boston found themselves oppressed and shut out of government upon their arrival in America. Ward explains, they developed a political system "based on friendship, neighborhood, ethnicity, creating a tolerance for favoritism and shady dealings...