Expertise
Campaign finance, congress, elections, political parties, polling and public opinion, presidency, reapportionment and redistricting
Background
Past Positions
Director of Governmental Studies, Brookings; Executive Director, American Political Science Association
Education
Ph.D. (1977), M.A. (1968), University of Michigan; B.A., University of Florida, 1966
"In 2008, where two strong and capable candidates are fighting it out on every front, where the difficult issues of race and sex are on the table and where the gap between the two in total votes and pledged delegates is likely to be small, the potential for an explosive convention, where in the end half the delegates (and half the party) feels they have been cheated, is real…Averting…disaster is just what superdelegates are supposed to do."