Expert:
Dr. Donald Kettl
Professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and
director of Penn's Fels Institute of Government
Credentials:
* Organizer of the recent Penn Conference on Civility and American Politics on Capitol Hill in Washington, which was broadcast on C-SPAN
* Nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution
Quote:
"We've gotten to the point where the hot rhetoric of campaigns is making
it harder to win - and then it's making it harder for whoever wins to
govern. Voters are increasingly cynical about politics and about
government's ability to work. We're unlikely to move far on either count
without a change in the way politicians and voters talk to each other. The
success of the next president, regardless of party, depends on it."
