30th Anniversary
Established in 1979, the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies (CCPS) has a history of leading scholarly research and practical training. CCPS capitalizes on its Washington, D.C., location by bringing together public policy practitioners and academics to share their research, knowledge, and experiences in a series of advanced institutes, conferences, and workshops on applied politics.
CCPS frequently sponsors conferences, often in conjunction with other Washington DC organizations. In addition, we run well respected institutes in public advocacy and campaign management that have produced talented and knowledgeable professionals.
Latest updates
Prof Thurber will moderated a debate Saturday, Oct. 24 between RNC Chair Michael Steele and DLC Chair Harold Ford Jr. Information from the university is posted here and the campus newspaper's coverage is here.
Our next event will be a forum titled, "100 Years of Community Organizing: From Alinsky to Obama" on Nov. 4. Click here to down load a flier with more details.
We have posted a new link to a story on the "In the Media" page. Prof. Thurber offer some thoughts on a recent article in The National Journal.
Our most recent event was a forum on ethics and lobbying reform, headlined by Norm Eisen, special counsel to the president for ethics and government reform. Information about the conference, including videos, presentations, and speakers statements is now available on our lobbying research page.
CCPS Director and Distinguished Professor of Political Science James Thurber recently spoke to students of Ukraine's National Aviation University in person as well as via Internet with students at Kremenchuk State Polytechnic University about lobbying and ethics. The stories are linked here and here. The pages are in Ukrainian, but Google's Translate tool does an adequate job of translating the text to English. We are working on a separate page for Prof. Thurber's presentation.
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