Events

INVITATION

We cordially invite you to attend a lecture by

Professor Clyde Wilcox, Georgetown University,

on

The Tea Party, the 2014 Midterms, and the Obama Legacy

at the Amerikazentrum Hamburg

Am Sandtorkai 48

20457 Hamburg

on October 24,  2014, 7 pm.

U.S. midterm elections are an important political indicator and can provide the basis for significant political changes.  Prof. Wilcox will analyze the most prominent issues on the agenda and take a closer look at the role of the Tea Party in these elections.  As President Obama enters his final two years in the White House, Prof. Wilcox will also provide his view of the Obama legacy.  

Professor Wilcox is a professor in the Government Department at Georgetown, where he has taught for 25 years. He writes on a number of topics in American and Comparative politics, including religion and politics, gender politics, public opinion and electoral behavior, campaign finance, and science fiction and politics. He has authored, coauthored, edited, or co-edited more than 30 books. Professor Wilcox meets with many international visitor groups and has lectured in a number of countries. In the past three years he has lectured in Kenya, France, Russia, Turkey, China, Jordan, Spain, Japan, Canada, England, and Poland.  Prof. Wilcox has research projects focused on individual contributors to presidential campaigns, on the changing role of interest groups in American elections, on abortion politics, and on gender politics in the US and in Europe.

Please reserve your seat by mail (info@amerikazentrum.de) or phone (040 - 7038 3688). 

In cooperation with the American Consulate General and Junge Union.