Campaign Reform: Insights and Evidence

Task Force Members

Task Force Members Larry M. Bartels is professor of politics and public affairs and Donald E. Stokes Professor ofPublic and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He is the author of Presidential Primaries and the Dynamics ofPublic Choice, and he served from 1997 to 2000 as chair of the Board ofOverseers of the American National Election Studies. Henry E. Brady is professor of political science and public policy and director of the Survey Research Center at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the coauthor of Letting the People Decide: Dynamics ofa Canadian Election and Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics. Bruce Buchanan is professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin. He directed major studies of the media and the electorate in 1988, 1992, and 1996 for the Markle Foundation, and his books Electing a President and Renewing Presidential Politics are based on those studies. Charles H. Franklin is associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His articles on campaigns, voting behavior , and research methods have appeared in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal ofPolitical Science, and other leading scholarly journals. John G. Geer is professor of political science at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of From Tea Leaves to Opinion Polls: A Theory ofDemocratic Leadership and Nominating Presidents: An Evaluation of Voters and Primaries , and the editor of Politicians and Party Politics. Shanto Iyengar is professor of communication and political science at Stanford University. His work on the media and political psychology includes Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate, Is Anyone Responsible? How Television Frames Political Issues, and News That Matters. 249 250 Task Force Members Kathleen Hall Jamieson is dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a leading media commentator on political communication. Her scholarly works include Spiral of Cynicism, Dirty Politics, Packaging the Presidency, and Presidential Debates. Marion R. Just is professor of political science at Wellesley College. She led major studies of political communication in the 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns and is coauthor of Crosstalk: Citizens, Candidates, and the Media in a Presidential Campaign and of Common Knowledge: News and the Construction ofPolitical Meaning. Stanley Kelley Jr. is professor of politics, emeritus, at Princeton University . He has published numerous works on political parties and elections, including Political Campaigning: Problems in Creating an Informed Electorate and Interpreting Elections. Thomas E. Mann is the W. Averell Harriman Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is a leading commentator on Washington politics, former executive director of the American Political Science Association, and former director of governmental studies at Brookings. His books include Unsafe at Any Margin: Interpreting Congressional Elections and Campaign Finance Reform: A Sourcebook. Samuel L. Popkin is professor of political science at the University of California at San Diego. He has served as a consultant to the CBS News election unit and in the McGovern, Carter, and Clinton presidential campaigns . His books include The Reasoning Voter: Communication and Persuasion in Presidential Campaigns and Candidates, Issues, and Strategies . Daron R. Shaw is assistant professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin. He has worked in a variety of Republican campaigns, including the Bush presidential campaign in 1992, and has published studies on the effects of campaign events and political advertising. Lynn Vavreck is assistant professor of government at Dartmouth College. She served on the Quayle campaign staffin 1992 and has written scholarly articles on campaign effects in the United States and elsewhere. Task Force Members 251 John R. Zaller is professor of political science at the University of California at Los Angeles. His scholarly works include The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion, The American Ethos, and numerous articles and book chapters on public opinion, attitude change, and media politics. ...