Federalism, COVID-19, & Political Culture | Don Kettl, Greg Goelzhauser, Lance Sorenson, Carl Scott
Don Kettl, "Is Federalism Obsolete?"
Donald F. Kettl is the Sid Richardson Professor at the LBJ School, specializing in public management and public policy. He previously served as dean in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Volcker Alliance, the Brookings Institution and the Partnership for Public Service.
Greg Goelzhauser, "Polarization and Federal Systems"
Greg Goelzhauser is a professor in the political science department at Utah State University. Professor Goelzhauser has published two books on judicial selection—Choosing State Supreme Court Justices: Merit Selection and the Consequences of Institutional Reform and Judicial Merit Selection: Institutional Design and Performance for State Courts. He also served as co-editor of the Annual Review of American Federalism, published by Publius: The Journal of Federalism.
Lance Sorenson, "Two Cheers for Federalism in 2020"
Lance Sorenson is an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Utah practicing constitutional law. He has a doctorate in Legal History from UNLV and has taught law and history at Stanford, BYU, and UNLV. He is the author of *Tribal Sovereignty and the Recognition Power*, 42 American Indian Law Rev. 69 (2017) and *The Hybrid Nature of the Property Clause: Implications for Judicial Review of National Monument Reductions*, 21 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law (2019). The views expressed
herein are his alone and do not reflect the views of the Office of the Attorney General.
Carl Scott, "Township Federalism in the 21st Century"
Carl Eric Scott is an adjunct professor for Oglethorpe University, Georgia, who resides in Utah. He has taught political theory, American politics, and Great Books liberal arts, at a number of institutions, including
Washington and Lee University, Skidmore College, Utah Valley University, and St. John’s College. He has written on constitutionalism, film, and rock music for the *National Review Online* group blog “Postmodern
Conservative.” He is the co-editor of *Totalitarianism on Screen: The Art and Politics of ‘The Lives of Others,’* and the author of “The Five Conceptions of American Liberty,” an essay on American political thought published by *National Affairs*. He is currently working on a book, *On the Nature of Democracy: Great Books Guidance for our Troubled Republic, *that compares thinkers such as Plato, Tocqueville, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Publius, and Solzhenitsyn, to address contemporary “democracy pessimism.”
