And I think he's actually got a good resource base of donors that are willing and probably will give money for both the transition effort, but also the inaugural campaign as well, " said David Lewis, a professor of political science at Vanderbilt University and author of "The Politics of Presidential Appointments.
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The two eloped in 1988, to save money on a big wedding, a year after she graduated from the University of Idaho, where she studied journalism and political science, according to the Almanac of American Politics.
He teaches international environmental politics in the political science department at Stanford University and energy law at Stanford Law School.
"Both Mr. Anwar and Mr. Najib are under strain, " said Bridget Welsh, a political-science professor at Singapore Management University and an expert on Malaysian politics.
The data puzzles Jennifer Lawless, an associate professor of political science at American University and the director of the University's Women and Politics Institute.
"Broadly speaking, his place in history is going to be a positive one, " said Brian Bridges, a political science professor at Hong Kong's Lingnan University who specializes in politics and foreign policies of the two Koreas.
Aubrey Jewett, a political science professor at the University of Central Florida who specializes in Florida politics and state and local government, said Triplett's vote Monday to reject the police chief's resignation was surprising since the mayor voted for the no-confidence motion in the first place.
Carroll, professor of political science at Rutgers University and the senior scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) has been watching the pools closely.
"We used to talk about defeating the LDP, to eliminate the bureaucrat-led, special-interest politics, " said Jiro Yamaguchi, a Hokkaido University political-science professor and longtime friend of Mr. Kan.
"There's more political pressure on sexual norms and family norms, so you see a profusion of these sorts of scandals, " says Paul Apostolidis, a political science professor at Whitman College in Washington state and the co-editor of the 2002 book Public Affairs: The Politics of Sex Scandals.
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