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The California Agenda (Lecture No. 2)

February 24, 2005

Coalitions in the New Los Angeles: Lessons from the 2005 Mayoral Election

Dr. Raphael J. Sonenshein
Professor of Political Science
California State University, Fullerton

Thursday February 24, 2005, 8:30-10:30 AM

The City Club on Bunker Hill
333 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90071
(Parking is accessible below the Wells Fargo Building)

This lecture series is supported by a
grant from the James Irvine Foundation

Hosted By Union Bank of California

Dr. Sonenshein will explore the emerging coalition patterns in Los Angeles politics in an era marked by the breakup of old coalitions and the increasing diversity of the political system. If Los Angeles is setting the pace for diverse American cities, what lessons do the patterns of political participation in Los Angeles offer? Dr. Sonenshein will examine historic Los Angeles coalitions, and analyze the efforts of the mayoral candidates to build new majority coalitions.

Raphael J. Sonenshein, professor of political science at California State University, Fullerton since 1982, is the author of two books on Los Angeles politics. Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles (Princeton U. Press, 1993) won the 1994 Ralph J. Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association as the best political science book of the year in the area of racial and cultural pluralism. He served as Executive Director of the City of Los Angeles Appointed Charter Reform Commission between 1997 and 1999. His book on Los Angeles charter reform, The City at Stake: Secession, Reform, and the Battle for Los Angeles, was published by Princeton U. Press in 2004. He is currently studying electoral coalitions in Los Angeles in an area of immigration, in association with CSUF geography professor Mark Drayse. He served as election day political consultant to the Los Angeles Times Poll in 1997 and 2001.