Darrell
West
Vice
President of Governance Studies
and Director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings
Institution in Washington, D.C. He is a former political science
professor at Brown
University. B.A.,
Miami University (of Ohio); M.A., Ph.D. (1981), Indiana University.
His research focuses on media, technology, and elections. He is the
developer of the website, InsidePolitics.org, which features in-depth
information about state and national politics.
2. Congress and Economic
Policymaking, (University of
Pittsburgh Press,
1987)
3. Air Wars: Television
Advertising in Political Campaigns, 1952-2000,
(Congressional Quarterly Press, 1993)(Japanese edition, 1997; Second
edition,
1997; Third edition, 2001)
4. Public Opinion in Rhode
Island, 1984-1993, (Brown
University, 1994)
(with Tom Anton and Jack Combs)
5. Cross Talk: Citizens,
Candidates, and the Media in a Presidential
Campaign, (University of Chicago
Press, 1996) (with Marion Just, Ann
Crigler, Dean Alger, Tim Cook and Montague Kern) (Winner of 2003 Doris
Graber
Award for Best Book on Political Communication)
6. The Sound of Money,
(W. W. Norton, 1998) (with Burdett Loomis)
7. Checkbook Democracy: How
Money Corrupts Political Campaigns,
(Northeastern University Press, 2000)
8. Patrick Kennedy: The Rise
to Power, (Prentice-Hall, 2000)
9. The Rise and Fall of the
Media Establishment,
(Bedford/St. Martin's
Press, 2001)
10. Rhode Island Public
Opinion, 1994-2000, (Brown
University,
2001)(with Tom Anton and Jack Combs)
11. Celebrity Politics,
(Prentice-Hall, 2002)(with John Orman)
12. Running on Empty?:
Campaign Discourse in American Elections,
(Rowman
and Littlefield, 2004) (co-edited with Sandy Maisel)
13. Digital Government:
Technology and Public Sector Performance, (Princeton
University Press, 2005) (winner of Don K. Price Award for Best Book on
Technology)
14. Evaluating Campaign
Quality: Can the Electoral Process Be Improved?,
(Cambridge University Press, 2007) (with Sandy Maisel and
Brett Clifton)
15. Biotechnology Policy
Across National Boundaries: The Science-Industrial Complex,
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
16. Digital Medicine: Health
Care in the Internet Era,
(Brookings Institution Press, 2009) (with Edward Miller)
17. Brain Gain: Rethinking
U.S. Immigration Policy,
(Brookings Institution Press, 2010) (winner of the Foreward Magazine
for best book in political science)
18. The Next Wave: Using
Digital Technology to Further Social and
Political Innovation,
(Brookings Institution Press, 2011)