The American Democracy, 10th Edition (Patterson)About the AuthorThomas E. Patterson is Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press in the
John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was previously
distinguished professor of political science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship
at Syracuse University. Raised in a small Minnesota town near the Iowa and South
Dakota borders, he was educated at South Dakota State University and the University
of Minnesota, where he received his Ph.D. in 1971. Currently running the "Vanishing
Voter" study at the Kennedy School of Government, which has been widely used
in the media and on college campuses, Tom is also the author of six books and
dozens of articles that focus primarily on the media and elections. His book, Out of Order (1994), received national attention when President Clinton
said every politician and journalist should be required to read it. An earlier
book, The Mass Media Election (1980), received a Choice award as Outstanding
Academic Book, 1980-81. Another of Patterson's books, The Unseeing Eye (1976),
was recently selected by the American Association for Public Opinion Research
as one of the fifty most influential books of the past half century in the field
of public opinion. His current research includes a study of White House communication and a study of the news media's role in Western democracies. His work has been funded by
major grants from the National Science Foundation, the Markle Foundation, the
Smith-Richardson Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts. |