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Expert Directory
The following scholars, writers, and editors are available to members of the media to talk about their work in this area. Following is information about their background, special interests, and preferred manner of contact. Listed email addresses should be copied into an email client, replacing "at" with "@".
R. Michael Alvarez
R. Michael Alvarez is professor of political science at the California Institute of Technology and codirector of the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project. His books include Hard Choices, Easy Answers: Values, Information, and American Public Opinion, written with John Brehm (Princeton, 2002). He is a nationally recognized expert on voting behavior and elections.
See also Thad Hall and Susan D. Hyde, co-editors of Election Fraud: Detecting and Deterring Electoral Manipulation
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Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Julia R. Azari
Julia R. Azari is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Marquette University.
See also Lara M. Brown and Zim G. Nwokora, coeditors ofThe Presidential Leadership Dilemma
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Fran Keneston, Director ofMarketing and Publicity
SUNY Press
Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Benjamin B. Bederson
Benjamin B. Bederson is associate professor of computer science and director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland.
See also Paul Herrnson, Richard Niemi, Michael Hanmer, Frederick Conrad, and Michael Traugot, co-editors of Voting Technology
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Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Harry C. Boyte
Dr. Harry C. Boyte is a Senior Fellow at the Humphrey Institute, Co-director of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship, and a member of the graduate faculty at the University of Minnesota. From 1993 to 1995 Boyte was national co-ordinator for the New Citizenship, a nonpartisan confederation of groups which worked with the White House to analyze the gap between citizens and government and to propose solutions.
Boyte is author of many books on democracy, citizenship, and citizen action, including The Backyard Revolution, Free Spaces, with Sara Evans, and Everyday Politics. He has published in more than 100 publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor; his political commentary has appeared on CBS Evening News and National Public Radio. In the 1960s, Boyte was a Field Secretary for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, directed by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Contact
Publicist: Alison Aten
Email: alison.aten at mnhs.org
Phone: 651-259-3203
Fax: 651-297-1345
David W. Brady
David W. Brady is deputy director and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution; the Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business; and professor of political science in Stanford University's School of Humanities and Sciences. Among his previous books is Revolving Gridlock: Politics and Policy from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush, coauthored with Craig Volden (Westview, 2005).
See also
Pietro Nivola, co-editor of Red and Blue Nation?
Contact
Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Lara M. Brown
Lara M. Brown is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Villanova University and the author of Jockeying for the American Presidency: The Political Opportunism of Aspirants.
See also Julia R. Azari and Zim G. Nwokora, coeditors ofThe Presidential Leadership Dilemma
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Fran Keneston, Director ofMarketing and Publicity
SUNY Press
Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Brian J. Brox
Brian J. Brox is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tulane University.
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Fran Keneston, Director ofMarketing and Publicity
SUNY Press
Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Bruce E. Cain
Bruce E. Cain is Heller Professor of Political Science at the University of California–Berkeley and director of the UC Washington Center. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including Party Lines: Competition, Partisanship, and Congressional Redistricting, edited with Thomas E. Mann (Brookings, 2005).
See also Thomas Mann, co-editor of Party Lines; Todd Donovan and Caroline J. Tolbert, co-editors of Democracy in the States: Experiments in Election Reform
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Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
David E. Campbell
David E. Campbell is assistant professor of political science and a research fellow at the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Why We Vote: How Schools and Communities Shape Our Civic Life (Princeton, 2006) and coauthor or coeditor of several books, including Democracy at Risk (Brookings, 2005) and Choice with Equity (Hoover Institution, 2002).
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Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Damon M. Cann
Damon M. Cann is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia.
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Fran Keneston, Director ofMarketing and Publicity
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David T. Canon
David T. Canon is associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In addition Race, Redistricting, and Representation, to Canon is author of Actors, Athletes, and Astronauts: Political Amateurs in the United States Congress and coauthor of The Dysfunctional Congress? The Individual Roots of an Institutional Dilemma.
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University of Chicago Press Promotions Manager: Ashley Cave
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Stanley M. Caress
Stanley M. Caress is Professor of Political Science at the University of West Georgia and the author of Dynamics of American Politics.
See also Todd T. Kunioka, coauthor ofTerm Limits and Their Consequences
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Fran Keneston, Director ofMarketing and Publicity
SUNY Press
Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
John A. Clark
Associate Professor, Western Michigan University, John A. Clark co-edited Party Organization and Activism in the American South and has authored numerous articles and book chapters on political parties and southern politics. He has appeared as a guest in national media, including NPR's "Marketplace."
See also Charles Prysby, co-editor of Southern Party Political Activists
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Mack McCormick, University Press of Kentucky Publicity Manager
Email: permissions at uky.edu
Johnetta Betsch Cole
Johnnetta Betsch Cole is President Emerita of Spelman College and Bennett College for Women. Together with Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Betsch has co-written Who Should Be First?: Feminists Speak Out on the 2008 Presidential Campaign, Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women’s Equality in African American Communities, and coedited (also with Rudolph P. Byrd) I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde.
See also Beverly Guy-Sheftall, coauthor of Who Shoud Be First?, Gender Talk, and coeditor of I Am Your Sister
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Fran Keneston, Director ofMarketing and Publicity
SUNY Press
Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Frederick C. Conrad
Frederick C. Conrad is research associate professor in survey research at both the University of Michigan and University of Maryland.
See also Paul Herrnson, Richard Niemi, Michael Hanmer, Benjamin Bederson, and Michael Traugott, co-editors of Voting Technology
Contact
Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Anthony Corrado
An expert on political finance and Brookings nonresident senior fellow, Anthony Corrado focuses on campaign finance; political party behavior; and campaign and election law.
See also David B. Magleby and Kelly D. Patterson, co-editors of Financing the 2004 Election
See also Anthony Corrado, Thomas E. Mann, Daniel R. Ortiz, and Trevor Potter, co-editors of The New Campaign Finance Sourcebook
Contact
Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Louis DeSipio
Associate Professor of Political Science and Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine, DeSipio's research focuses on U.S. ethnic politics, particularly Latino Politics, and immigration policy, particularly the process of political adaptation among contemporary immigrants.
Bibliography: Counting on the Latino Vote: Latinos as a New Electorate, Making Americans, Remaking America: Immigration and Immigrant Policy, Muted Voices: Latinos and the 2000 Election.
Contact
Email: LDESIPIO at UCI.EDU
Phone: 949-824-1420
E.J. Dionne, Jr.
E.J. Dionne, Jr., is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, co-chair of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, and a syndicated columnist for the Washington Post Writers Group.
See also William Kristol, co-author of Bush v. Gore
Contact
Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Todd Donovan
Todd Donovan is professor of political science at Western Washington University. His books include Losers’ Consent: Elections and Democratic Legitimacy, written with Christopher J. Anderson, Andre Blais, Shaun Bowler, and Ola Listhaug (Oxford, 2005).
See also Bruce E. Cain and Caroline J. Tolbert, co-editors of Democracy in the States: Experiments in Election Reform
Contact
Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
David A. Dulio
David A. Dulio is assistant professor of political science at Oakland University. He is the author of For Better or Worse: How Political Consultants Are Changing Elections in the United States (SUNY Press, 2004). He is the co-editor (with James A. Thurber and Candice J. Nelson) of Crowded Airwaves: Campaign Advertising in Elections and (with Candice J. Nelson and Stephen K. Medvic) of Shades of Gray: Perspectives on Campaign Ethics.
See also Candice J. Nelson, co-author of Vital Signs and Shades of Gray
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Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Publicist: Fran Keneston
Publicist’s Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Publicist’s Phone: 518-472-5000
David C. Earnest
David C. Earnest is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Old Dominion University and coauthor of On the Cutting Edge of Globalization: An Inquiry into American Elites.
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Fran Keneston, Director ofMarketing and Publicity
SUNY Press
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Richard A. Epstein
Richard A. Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Among his books are Simple Rules for a Complex World and Principles for a Free Society. He is the editor, with Cass Sunstein, of The Vote: Bush, Gore, and the Supreme Court.
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Sally Friedman
Sally Friedman is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rockefeller College, University at Albany, State University of New York.
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Publicist: Fran Keneston
Publicist’s Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Publicist’s Phone: 518-472-5000
Michael A. Genovese
Michael A. Genovese is Loyola Chair of Leadership Studies and Professor of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of many books, including The Power of the American Presidency: 1789–2000 and The Presidential Dilemma: Leadership in the American System
See also Matthew J. Streb, co-editor of Polls and Politics: The Dilemmas of Democracy
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Publicist: Fran Keneston
Publicist’s Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Publicist’s Phone: 518-472-5000
Alan S. Gerber
Alan S. Gerber is a professor of political science and director of the Center for the Study of American Politics at Yale University. He has published extensively on campaigns and elections and is coeditor (with Eric Patashnik) of Promoting the General Welfare: New Perspectives on Government Performance (Brookings, 2006).
See also Donal Green, co-author of Get Out the Vote.
Contact
Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Howard Gillman
Howard Gillman is professor of political science and law at the University of Southern California. He is the author of The Constitution Besieged— winner of the Pritchett Award for best book in public law, The Votes that Counted, and the editor (with Cornell Clayton) of Supreme Court Decision-Making, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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Donald P. Green
Donald P. Green is A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Political Science and director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. An expert on elections and campaign finance, he has written widely on public opinion and political behavior and is coauthor of Partisan Hearts and Minds: Political Parties and the Social Identities of Voters (Yale, 2000).
See also Alan Gerber, co-author of Get Out the Vote.
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Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Beverly Guy-Sheftall is Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies and Founding Director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center at Spelman College. Together with Johnetta Betsch Cole, Guy-Sheftall has co-written Who Should Be First?: Feminists Speak Out on the 2008 Presidential Campaign, Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women’s Equality in African American Communities, and coedited (also with Rudolph P. Byrd) I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde.
See also Johnetta Betsch Cole, coauthor of Who Shoud Be First?, Gender Talk, and coeditor of I Am Your Sister
Contact
Fran Keneston, Director ofMarketing and Publicity
SUNY Press
Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Thad E. Hall
Thad E. Hall is assistant professor of political science and a research fellow in the Institute of Public and International Affairs at the University of Utah. Together with R. Michael Alvarez, he wrote Point, Click, and Vote: The Future of Internet Voting (Brookings, 2004).
See also R. Michael Alvarez and Susan D. Hyde, co-editors of Election Fraud: Detecting and Deterring Electoral Manipulation
Contact
Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Michael J. Hanmer
Michael J. Hanmer is assistant professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland. He has published in the area of election reform.
See also Paul Herrnson, Richard Niemi, Benjamin Bederson, Frederick Conrad, and Michael Traugott, co-editors of Voting Technology
Contact
Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Heather E. Harris
Heather E. Harris is Associate Professor of Business Communication at Stevenson University.
See also Kimberly R. Moffitt and Catherine R. Squires, coeditors ofThe Obama Effect
Contact
Fran Keneston, Director ofMarketing and Publicity
SUNY Press
Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Susan Herbst
Susan Herbst is associate professor of political science and communications and director of American studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of "Numbered Voices" and "Reading Public Opinion."
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Contact University of Chicago Press Promotions Manager Ashley Cave
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Phone: 773.702.7490
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Paul S. Herrnson
Paul S. Herrnson is founding director of the Center for American Politics and Citizenship at the University of Maryland. His books include Congressional Elections: Campaigning at Home and in Washington (5th ed., CQ Press, in press).
See also Richard Niemi, Michael Hanmer, Benjamin Bederson, Frederick Conrad, and Michael Traugott, co-editors of Voting Technology
Contact
Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
John L. Hilley
John L. Hilley worked in the White House as senior adviser and head of legislative affairs to President Bill Clinton from February 1996 to January 1998. In this role, he oversaw and participated in the negotiation of all major legislation. Before moving to the White House, Hilley served as chief counsel for Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle, chief of staff for Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, and majority staff director for Senate Budget Committee Chairman Jim Sasser. In the private sector, he has served as executive vice president of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) and as chairman and CEO of NASDAQ International. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.
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Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Susan D. Hyde
Susan D. Hyde is assistant professor of political science at Yale University. She has served as an election observer with the Carter Center and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
See also R. Michael Alvarez and Thad E. Hall, co-editors of Election Fraud: Detecting and Deterring Electoral Manipulation
Contact
Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Fred Inglis
Fred Inglis is professor of cultural studies at the University of Sheffield. A long-standing contributor to the Nation, the New Statesman, and the London Independent, he is also the author of numerous books.
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Yale Publicity: yuppublicity at yale.edu
William Kristol
William Kristol is editor and publisher of The Weekly Standard.
See also E.J. Dionne Jr., co-author of Bush v. Gore
Contact
Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Todd T. Kunioka
Todd T. Kunioka is a statistical analyst for Los Angeles County and teaches Political Science at Cerritos College in California.
See also Stanley M. Caress, coauthor ofTerm Limits and Their Consequences
Contact
Fran Keneston, Director ofMarketing and Publicity
SUNY Press
Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
David B. Magleby
David B. Magleby is dean of the School of Family, Home, and Social Sciences at Brigham Young University, where he is also a professor of political science. He is the editor of Financing the 2000 Election (Brookings 2002), and co-author of Government by the People, which is now in its twenty-first edition.
See also Anthony Corrado and Kelly D. Patterson, co-editors of Financing the 2004 Election
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Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Michael J. Malbin
Michael J. Malbin is the executive director of the Campaign Finance Institute and professor of political science at the State University of New York—Albany. His books include The Election After Reform: Money, Politics and the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006).
See also Norman J. Ornstein and Thomas E. Mann, co-authors of Vital Statistics on Congress 2008
Contact
Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Thomas E. Mann
A noted congressional scholar and Brookings senior fellow, Tom Mann writes and speaks widely on issues related to campaigns; elections; and the effectiveness of Congress. He has conducted polls for congressional candidates and overseen national public opinion studies. Mann recently co-authored The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track.
See also Bruce Cain, co-editor of Party Lines; Anthony Corrado, Daniel R. Ortiz, and Trevor Potter, co-editors of The New Campaign Finance Sourcebook; Michael J. Malbin and Norman J. Ornstein, co-authors of Vital Statistics on Congress 2008
Contact
Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
William G. Mayer
William G. Mayer is associate professor of political science at Northeastern University. His books include The Front-Loading Problem in Presidential Nominations, written with Andrew E. Busch (Brookings, 2004), and The Making of the Presidential Candidates 2004 (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).
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Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Michael P. McDonald
An expert on voting, redistricting, and statistics, Michael McDonald has consulted for organizations such as the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, and on topics such as redistricting in specific states and national exit polling.
See also John Samples, co-editor The Marketplace of Democracy
Contact
Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Kimberly R. Moffitt
Kimberly R. Moffitt is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. She is the coeditor (with Regina E. Spellers) of Blackberries and Redbones: Critical Articulations of Black Hair/ Body Politics in Africana Communities.
See also Heather E. Harris and Catherine R. Squires, coeditors ofThe Obama Effect
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Fran Keneston, Director ofMarketing and Publicity
SUNY Press
Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Mark Monmonier
Mark Monmonier, author of Bushmanders and Bullwinkles, is Distinguished Professor of Geography at Syracuse University. He is the author or coauthor of twelve books, including most recently Spying with Maps and Air Apparent, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
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Candice J. Nelson
Candice J. Nelson is academic director of the Campaign Management Institute and associate professor of government at American University.
See also David A. Dulio, co-author of Vital Signs and Shades of Gray
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Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Richard G. Niemi
Richard G. Niemi is Don Alonzo Watson Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester. His previous works include Vital Statistics on American Politics 2005-06, with Harold Stanley (CQ Press, 2005).
See also Paul Herrnson, Michael Hanmer, Benjamin Bederson, Frederick Conrad, and Michael Traugott, co-editors of Voting Technology
Contact
Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Pietro S. Nivola
Pietro Nivola is a Brookings vice president and director of the Governance Studies Program. He has written widely on energy policy; regulation; federalism; and American politics. His current project is a study of partisan polarization.
See also David Brady, co-editor of Red and Blue Nation?
Contact
Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Zim G. Nwokora
Zim G. Nwokora is Post-Doctoral Fellow in Politics at the Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University in Australia.
See also Julia R. Azari and Lara M. Brown, coeditors ofThe Presidential Leadership Dilemma
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Fran Keneston, Director ofMarketing and Publicity
SUNY Press
Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Norman J. Ornstein
Norman J. Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He also serves as an election analyst for CBS News and writes a weekly column, “Congress Inside Out," for Roll Call.
See also Michael J. Malbin and Thomas E. Mann, co-authors of Vital Statistics on Congress 2008
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Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Daniel R. Ortiz
Daniel R. Ortiz is the John Allan Love Professor of Law and Horace W. Goldsmith Research Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.
See also Anthony Corrado, Thomas E. Mann, and Trevor Potter, co-editors of The New Campaign Finance Sourcebook
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Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Kelly D. Patterson
Kelly D. Patterson directs the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy at Brigham Young University. He is the author of Political Parties and the Maintenance of Liberal Democracy (Columbia University Press).
See also David B. Magleby and Anthony Corrado, co-editors of Financing the 2004 Election
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Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
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Phone: 202-536-3611
Sam Peltzman
Sam Peltzman is Sears Roebuck Professor in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. He has been a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research and senior staff economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers. He is the author of Political Participation and Government Regulation.
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Samuel L. Popkin
Samuel L. Popkin is professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. He has also been a consulting analyst in presidential campaigns, serving as consultant to the Clinton campaign on polling and strategy, to the CBS News election units from 1983 to 1990 on survey design and analysis, and more recently to the Gore campaign. He is the author of The Reasoning Voter.
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Publicist: Micah Fehrenbacher
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Trevor Potter
A former commissioner and chairman of the Federal Election Commission and Brookings nonresident senior fellow, Trevor Potter focuses on campaign finance and election law.
See also Anthony Corrado, Thomas E. Mann, and Daniel R. Ortiz, co-editors of The New Campaign Finance Sourcebook
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Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
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Phone: 202-536-3611
Charles L. Prysby
Charles L. Prysby is a professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the coauthor of Political Choices, Political Behavior and the Local Context, and a series of computer-based instructional packages on voting behavior in presidential elections (part of the APSA's SETUPS series). He is also the author or coauthor of numerous articles dealing with elections, voting behavior, and political parties.
See also John Clark , co-editor of Southern Party Political Activists
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Mack McCormick, University Press of Kentucky Publicity Manager
Email: permissions at uky.edu
Herbert Randall
Photographer whose works have been exhibited at noted museums, with a display in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He was photographer during Freedom Summer in Mississippi.
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Phone: 631-283-6521
John Samples
John Samples directs the Center for Representative Government at the Cato Institute and teaches political science at Johns Hopkins University.
See also Michael P. McDonald, co-editor The Marketplace of Democracy
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Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
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Sean J. Savage
Sean J. Savage is Associate Professor of Political Science at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame. He is the author of Truman and the Democratic Party and Roosevelt: The Party Leader, 1932–1945.
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Steven E. Schier
Dorothy H. and Edward C. Congdon Professor of Political Science, Carleton College, Steven Schier's expertise lies primarily in American politics, including interest groups, elections, Congress, the presidency, and political parties. He is the author or editor of eight books and numerous scholarly articles. He recently completed a Fulbright senior lectureship at York University in Toronto and serves on the board of The Dirksen Congressional Center. Schier has contributed articles to the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today. He has commented on politics for national network and cable television and is a political analyst for KSTP television in Minneapolis.
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Jenni Brewer, Publicity Assistant, Georgetown University Press
Phone: 202-687-9298
Email: jrb52 at georgetown.edu
Robert C. Smith
Robert C. Smith is Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University. He is the author of several books, including Conservatism and Racism, and Why in America They Are the Same; African American Leadership (with Ronald W. Walters); We Have No Leaders: African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era; Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Now You See It, Now You Don’t; and Race, Class, and Culture: A Study in Afro-American Mass Opinion (with Richard Seltzer), all published by SUNY Press.
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Fran Keneston, Director ofMarketing and Publicity
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Steven S. Smith
Steven S. Smith is the director of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of several books on congressional politics, including The American Congress (Houghton Mifflin, 1995) and Call to Order: Floor Politics in the House and Senate (Brookings, 1989).
See also Melanie J. Springer, co-author of Reforming the Presidential Nomination Process
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Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Melanie J. Springer
Melanie J. Springer is an assistant professor of political science at Washington University, where she is a fellow in the Center on Political Economy.
See also Steven S. Smith, co-author of Reforming the Presidential Nomination Process
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Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
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Catherine R. Squires
Catherine R. Squires is John and Elizabeth Bates Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity, and Equality at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America, also published by SUNY Press, and African Americans and the Media.
See also Heather E. Harris and Kimberly R. Moffitt, coeditors ofThe Obama Effect
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Fran Keneston, Director ofMarketing and Publicity
SUNY Press
Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Matthew Streb
Matthew Streb is author of The New Electoral Politics of Race. Assistant Professor of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University, he is now at work on a book on nonpartisan elections.
See also Michael A. Genovese, co-author of Polls and Politics: The Dilemmas of Democracy
Contact
Email: mstreb at lmumail.lmu.edu
Phone: 310-338-1741
Publicist: Fran Keneston
Publicist’s Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Publicist’s Phone: 518-472-5000
Timothy J. Sullivan
Timothy J. Sullivan teaches at Mount Saint Mary’s University.
Contact
Fran Keneston, Director ofMarketing and Publicity
SUNY Press
Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Cass R. Sunstein
Cass R. Sunstein is the Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago. Former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, he is the author of One Case at a Time and Republic.com, among other books. He is the editor, with Richard Epstein, of The Vote: Bush, Gore, and the Supreme Court.
Contact
Contact University of Chicago Press Promotions Manager Ashley Cave
Email: ac at press.uchicago.edu
Phone: 773.702.7490
Fax: 773.702.9756 (fax)
Ruy Teixeira
A Visiting Fellow at Brookings and an expert of political demography and geography, Ruy Teixeira co-directs a joint Brookings-American Enterprise Institute project: The Future of Red, Blue and Purple America.
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Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Dennis F. Thompson
Dennis F. Thompson is the Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy and director of the Center for Ethics and the Professions at Harvard University. He is the author of Just, Elections, Political Ethics and Public Office: Ethics in Congress, and coauthor of Democracy and Disagreement.
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University of Chicago Press Promotions Manager, Ashley Cave
Email: ac at press.uchicago.edu
Phone: 773.702.7490
Fax: 773.702.9756 (fax)
Caroline J. Tolbert
Caroline J. Tolbert is associate professor of political science at the University of Iowa. She is the author, most recently, of Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Society, and Participation, with Karen Mossberger and Ramona S. McNeal (MIT, 2007).
See also: Bruce E. Cain and Todd Donovan, co-editors of Democracy in the States: Experiments in Election Reform
Contact
Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Michael W. Traugott
Michael W. Traugott is professor of communication studies and senior research scientist in the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research.
See also Paul Herrnson, Richard Niemi, Michael Hanmer, Benjamin Bederson, and Frederick Conrad, co-editors of Voting Technology
Contact
Publicity: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
Email: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Martin P. Wattenberg
Martin Wattenberg, author of Where Have all the Voters Gone?, is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine.
Contact
Email: mpwatten at uci.edu
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