Darrell West

Brown University Professor. B.A., Miami University (of Ohio); M.A., Ph.D. (1981), Indiana University. Specializations: American politics, mass media, technology, and elections. His current research focuses on e-government and the mass media. He is the developer of the website, InsidePolitics.org, which features in-depth information about state and national politics.

Book Publications

1. Making Campaigns Count, (Greenwood Press, 1984)
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, forthcoming, 2007) (with Sandy Maisel and Brett Clifton)
15. Biotechnology Policy Across National Boundaries: The Science-Industrial Complex, (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming, 2007)

Position

John Hazen White Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University.

Activities

West is a frequent commentator on media and elections. He has been quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Providence Journal, and Boston Globe, and on National Public Radio, MSNBC, CNN, the Today Show, O'Reilly Factor, Hardball, NBC Nightly News, and ABC World News. He has served as an election consultant to local television stations in Providence since 1988.