March 13, 2008
The Invisible Primary: Money, Media & Polls in the 2008 Presidential Race
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
Case Western Reserve University
A Presentation of the Center for Policy Studies at Case Western Reserve University
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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.