Introduction:
Karen Beckwith, Ph.D. - Flora Stone Mather
Professor of Political Science at Case Western Reserve University,
introduced our panelists to the audience.
Panelists: Thomas Patterson,
Ph.D., Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press,
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University. His most recent book, The Vanishing Voter, looks
at the causes and consequences of declining
electoral participation. His book on the media's
political role, Out of Order, received
the American Political Science Association's
Graber Award as the best book of the decade in
political communication. Alexander P.
Lamis, J.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of
Political Science at Case Western Reserve
University. Alexander P. Lamis is a
specialist on elections and political parties,
he is the author of The Two-Party South,
2d expanded edition (Oxford University Press,
1990), which was co-winner of the V. O. Key
Award when the book’s first edition was
published in 1984, and articles and book
chapters on the politics of the American
South. He is also editor of Ohio
Politics (Kent State University Press,
1994; second edition forthcoming in 2006), his
first book project involving collaboration
among political scientists and journalists
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Original Event Details
Monday November 12, 2007
Allen Medical Library
Ford Auditorium - 4:30p.m.
Corner of Euclid Avenue and Adelbert Road on the
Campus of Case Western Reserve University
A Conversation with
Thomas Patterson Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press,
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University
Monday, November 12, 2007 4:00―5:30 p.m.
Ford Auditorium, Allen Medical Library Corner of Adelbert Road and Euclid Ave. Case Western Reserve University
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More About Our Guest
Thomas E. Patterson is Bradlee
Professor of Government and the Press. His most
recent book, The Vanishing Voter, looks
at the causes and consequences of declining
electoral participation. His book on the media's
political role, Out of Order, received the
American Political Science Association's Graber
Award as the best book of the decade in
political communication. An earlier book, The
Unseeing Eye, was named by the American
Association for Public Opinion Research as one
of the 50 most influential books on public
opinion in the past half century. He also is
author of Mass Media Election and two
general American government texts: The
American Democracy and We the People.
His articles have appeared in Political
Communication, Journal of Communication,
and other academic journals, as well as in the
popular press. His research has been funded by
the Ford, Markle, Smith-Richardson, Pew, and
National Science foundations. Patterson received
his PhD from the University of Minnesota in
1971.
A Conversation with
Thomas Patterson Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press,
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University