Expertise
Voting Behavior; Public Opinion; Political Demography and Geography; Turnout; Political Parties
Background
Current Positions
Visiting Fellow, Governance Studies and Metropolitan Policy Program (2007-present); Fellow, New Politics Institute (2007-present); Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress (2003-present); Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation (1999-present)
Past Positions
Director, Politics and Public Opinion Program, Economic Policy Institute (1994-1999); Sociologist and Co-Director, Rural Manufacturing Study, Economic Research Service (1989-1998); Fellow, Progressive Policy Institute (1993-1994); Director of Political Studies, Progressive Foundation (1993-1994); Visiting Fellow, Governmental Studies Program, Brookings Institution (1991-1992); Senior Analyst, Abt Associates (1986-1989); Lecturer in Statistics, Sociology Department, University of Maryland Baltimore County (1988); Senior Research Associate, Mathew Greenwald and Associates (1986); Vice-President, Penn + Schoen Associates (1985-1986); Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Notre Dame (1984-1985)
Education
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1984; M.S., University of Wisconsin, 1981; B.A., University of Michigan, 1977
"Anyone with less than a four-year college degree has really done rather poorly since about the middle 1970s. So, there's a real question in their minds of what America has in store for them in the future. And they are very interested to hear what politicians have to say about it. So far, it hasn't seemed to work out quite so well."