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.
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; Fourth
edition, 2005; Fifth edition, 2009; Sixth edition, 2013)
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)(Korean edition, 2012)
19. Digital
Schools:
How Technology Can Transform Education,
(Brookings
Institution Press, 2012)