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FROM L – R: Donald Simon, former counsel to Common Cause; Dr. Louis Massicotte of the University of Montreal; and Dr. Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute at the June 2005 hearing of the Carter- Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform
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SPA Hosts Expert on Election Systems as Visiting Professor
SPA AND THE CENTER FOR Democracy and Election Management (CDEM) arranged for the University of Montreal’s Dr. Louis Massicotte to come to AU as a 2006–07 visiting professor. This fall, he is teaching a government course on constitutional design. He will also be a CDEM senior fellow, leading a faculty seminar on comparative election systems and teaching a course on this topic in the spring.
A political science professor at the University of Montreal since 1992, Dr. Massicotte has also served as a consultant to Canada’s Chief Electoral Officer and Department of Justice on political, legislative, and election issues. Over the past two decades, he has been active in the field of democratic development, including observing elections in Congo, Haiti, and Romania. The author of Establishing the Rules of the Game: Election Laws in Democracies (2003), he earned his PhD at Carleton University in Ottawa.
Dr. Massicotte provided expert testimony at the hearings for CDEM’s Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform last year, and was a lecturer in a summer institute organized by CDEM in June. (See page 9.) “Professor Massicotte is one of the world’s leading scholars on election administration, and we are pleased to host him,” said CDEM Director Robert Pastor. “His courses will serve as the pillars for developing a curriculum on comparative election administration.”
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