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.
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)