Professor of public policy, political science and environment at the Sanford School of Public Policy
Mayer helped shepherd NAFTA to approval while working as senior international trade and foreign policy adviser to former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley. He specializes in globalization and governance, political analysis and leadership. He is director of The Polis at Duke, a new center on politics and leadership.
Duke President Richard Brodhead and Sanford School of Public Policy Associate Dean Fritz Mayer back an effort aimed at getting liberals and conservatives together to find common ground in North Carolina.
The News & Observer
“The difference between Reagan and Obama is that Reagan believed it in his bones,” says the director of the Sanford School’s Center for Politics, Leadership, Innovation & Service (POLIS).
an interview with Salon.
Duke professors call the rhetoric in this year’s presidential campaign extreme, in large part because of Donald Trump. “Unfortunately, this behavior tends to induce a race to the bottom, where other candidates, not wanting to be shut out from media attention, try to match or one-up his positions,” says political scientist David Siegel.
