Feb. 28, 2019: 'Ten Myths and Half-Truths about Alaska and Its Politics' with Clive Thomas

William H. Seward Lecture: Clive S. Thomas presents Ten Myths and Half-Truths about Alaska and Its Politics Thursday, Feb. 28, 7:30-9 p.m. Social Sciences Building, Room 118

Are Alaskans individualists? Has the federal government betrayed the statehood compact? Can state government be run like a business? Do we have a citizen legislature? This lecture considers these and other questions about common beliefs in Alaska and the extent to which they are true.

About the speaker Clive S. Thomas is a senior fellow in the Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service at Washington State University and a visiting fellow at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. For more than three decades, he was professor of political science at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau, where he taught from from 1980 to 2011. In 1988, he developed the Alaska Universities Legislative Internship Program. His most recent book is Alaska Politics and Public Policy: The Dynamics of Beliefs, Institutions, Personalities and Power (University of Alaska Press, 2016).

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