Clinton-Gore Adviser Elaine Kamarck '72
To Speak On Upcoming Election

Elaine Kamarck '72, who was a prominent figure in the Clinton-Gore administration and is now a lecturer in public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, will give a talk on the upcoming election at 8 p.m. on Nov. 2 in Dalton 103. Titled “The 2006 Election: Plate Tectonics and Lightning Strikes in American Politics,” the lecture is one of a series on the 2006 elections sponsored the Social Science Center of Bryn Mawr College.

Kamarck joined the faculty of the Kennedy School in 1997 after a career in politics and government. In the 1980s, she was one of the founders of the New Democrat movement that helped elect Bill Clinton president. She served in the White House from 1993 to 1997, where she created and managed the Clinton Administration's National Performance Review, also known as “reinventing government.”

At the Kennedy School, she served as Director of Visions of Governance for the Twenty-First Century and as faculty adviser to the Innovations in American Government Awards Program. In 2000, she took a leave of absence to work as senior policy adviser to the Gore campaign. She conducts research and has published widely on 21st-century government, the role of the Internet in political campaigns, homeland defense, intelligence reorganization, and governmental reform and innovation.

Kamarck received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The End of Government As We Know It: Policy Implementation in the 21st Century, published by Lynne Rienner Publishing this fall.

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