TORONTO, March 9, 1998 -- Theodore Lowi, a provocative and world-renowned political scientist and an expert on the American presidency, will deliver a lecture at York University on Monday, March 9 about the effects of economic globalization on local politics, and the role of corporate power and privatization in the globalization process.

Lowi's career has spanned five decades and many areas of study, including American political institutions, political theory, and public policy analysis. The American Political Science Association has named him the political scientist who made the most significant contribution during the 1970s.

"Lowi is without a doubt the most dynamic lecturer I have ever encountered," said York political science professor Stephen Newman, who studied under Lowi while at Cornell University in the 1970s. "His wide variety of interests and accomplishments have made him a highly influential member of the political science community."

Lowi's book, The Personal President -- Power Invested, Promise Unfulfilled (1985), won the 1986 Neustadt prize for the best book published on the American presidency. He is also the co-author (with Robert F. Kennedy, 1964) of The Pursuit of Justice, and the author of the highly influential The End of Liberalism(1979).

Lowi is the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at Cornell University and has been First Vice President of the International Political Science Association since 1994.

Lowi will lecture at 7:30 p.m. in the Moot Court Room at York's Osgoode Hall Law School. His lecture, entitled "Globalizing Capitalism: Think Globally, Lose Locally," will take a provocative look at the ways in which the creation of a global marketplace has undermined the capacity of governments to regulate economic activity within national borders. Lowi will explore the idea that globalization is not simply about the opening up of markets, but also the expansion of corporations and corporate power, and that privatization is an integral part of the ideology of globalization and expansion.

For more information, please contact:

Sine MacKinnon
Senior Advisor for Media Relations
York University
(416) 736-2100, ext. 22087
email: sinem@yorku.ca

Alison Masemann
Media Relations Officer
York University
(416) 736-2100, ext. 22086
email: masemann@yorku.ca
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