Mark P. Jones
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“LET THE POLITICAL GAMES BEGIN: THE SILLY SEASON IN HOUSTON AND TEXAS IS UPON US”
MARK P. JONES-RICE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR/BAKER INSTITUTE FELLOW
This coming Thursday, (see location change for this meeting only) RCH members and guests are invited to hear Mark P. Jones, Ph.D. Rice University Baker Institute Fellow in Political Science and Professor, Rice University. Professor Jones is a renowned political commentator on The Politics of the Lone Star State and City of Houston.
Among the issues up for discussion in this “No-Holds-Barred-Program:"
- Texas’ increasingly politicized political environment,
- A.G. Ken Paxton’s revenge against his own political party,
- The gradual extinction of conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans,
- voting trends favoring Democrats in major cities and Republicans in rural areas,
- Will Whitmire’s campaign be hurt by his absence for the Paxton Trial and special sessions,
- Death Star Laws taking authority from Texas cities and counties and giving it to the Texas State Legislators,
- Will Republican policies against Abortion and other social issues force Corporations to avoid or possibly move from Texas,
- Special called sessions by Governor Abbott to consider School Voucher programs and the future for public schooling in Texas,
- County Judge Lena Hidalgo and the Commissioner’s Court,
- A discussion of the Mayoral Race in Houston.
All issues are on the table for this no-holds-barred discussion of the Politics of the Lone Star State. Please invite your friends to attend this informative and important program.
Joe Colangelo
Program Committee
BIOGRAPHY
Mark P. Jones, Ph.D., is the fellow in political science at the Baker Institute, the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies and a professor in the Department of Political Science at Rice University.
Jones also serves as the faculty director of Rice’s Master of Global Affairs program. His research focuses on the effect of electoral laws and other political institutions on governance, representation and voting. He has received substantial financial support for this research, including grants from the National Science Foundation. His research has been published in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies and the Journal of Politics, as well as in edited volumes published by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and Penn State University Press, among others. He is a frequent contributor to Texas media outlets, and his research on the Texas Legislature has been widely cited in the media as well as by numerous political campaigns.
Jones regularly advises U.S. government institutions on economic and political affairs in Argentina and has conducted research on public policy issues in Latin America and Texas for numerous international, national and local organizations, including the Inter-American Development Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, the U.S. Department of Defense, the Texas Department of Agriculture and the city of Houston. He is a frequent commentator in local, state, national and international media on government, politics and public policy. He is currently working on two principal research agendas, one that examines the impact of political institutions on politics and public policy in Latin America, and the other that analyzes the evolution of partisan politics in Texas over the past 50 years. Jones received his doctorate from the University of Michigan and his bachelor’s degree from Tulane University.
Jones leads the Baker Institute's Argentina Program and helps direct the Presidential Elections Program.