| Start Date: March 4, 2025 | End Date: March 4, 2025 |
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| Start Time: 9:00 am | End Time: 10:00 am |
| Location: This is a hybrid event offered on Zoom and at IGPA's Urbana Office at 1007 W. Nevada St. Urbana, IL 61801 |
The Institute of Government & Public Affairs invites you to our next faculty coffee on Tuesday, March 4, 2025 from 9 – 10 am CT, in Urbana and on Zoom. For those who join in person, there will be coffee and breakfast items!
Dr. Redfield is a former faculty member with the Political Science Department at the University of Illinois Springfield. He has been affiliated with IGPA since 1996.
IGPA will be hosting Kent Redfield to speak about his contributions to the recently published new edition of Illinois Politics: A Citizens Guide, will present an overview of the major factors that have contributed to the evolving nature of Illinois politics.
Those factors include: dramatic changes in population and political demographics, the collapse of traditional political party politics, the shift toward candidate centered elections, legislative leaders taking on the function of political parties, the critical impact of political gerrymanders on legislative and congressional elections, the dominate impact of money, to “finally, the impact of interest groups and big donors on elections and policy (including the billionaire era).”
This is a hybrid event offered on Zoom and at IGPA’s Urbana Office at 1007 W Nevada St Urbana, IL 61801. A calendar invitation will be sent after registration.
To register for the event, please visit the registration link.
