Expertise
Public policy; mass media; e-government; elections; public opinion; research methodology; survey research; data analysis
Background
Current Positions
Vice President and Director of Governance Studies, Brookings Institution
Past Positions
Research Fellow, Brookings Institution, 1980-81; Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1981-82; Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Brown University, 1982-88; Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Brown University, 1988-94; Director, John Hazen White, Sr. Public Opinion Laboratory, Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, Brown University, 1988- ; Visiting Scholar, Nuffield College, Oxford University, 1993; Professor, Department of Political Science, Brown University, 1994- ; Chairperson, Department of Political Science, Brown University, 1995-2000; Director, Taubman Center for Public Policy, Brown University, 2000-8; John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Brown University, 2000-8
Expert Awards
Nominee, E. E. Schattschneider Award for Best Dissertation on American Politics, American Political Science Association, 1981; Nominee, Esther L. Kinsley Award for Best Dissertation at Indiana University, 1981; Greenough Award for Best Dissertation in the Indiana University Political Science Department,1981; Doris Graber Award for Best Book on Political Communication Published More than Five Years Ago, American Political Science Association Political Communication Section, 2003, (Crosstalk book); Nominee, American Society for Public Administration’s Section on Public Administration Research best book award, 2005 (Digital Government book); Don K. Price Award for Best Book on Science, Technology, and Politics published in the last three years by the American Political Science Association section on science, technology, and environmental politics, 2006 (Digital Government book)
Education
A.B., Miami University of Ohio, Political Science (with Honors), 1976; M.A., Indiana University, Political Science, 1978; Ph.D., Indiana University, Political Science, 1981
The 2008 campaign has reached all-time lows in the use of misleading and inaccurate political appeals. Even Karl Rove, the architect of negative ads in previous campaigns, has complained about the tenor of this year's campaign.