The National Symposium : Schedule & Panelists : Darell West

Darell West

Darrell West is the John Hazen White, Sr. Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Brown University and the Director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy. He specializes in American politics, mass media, and elections, and his current research focuses on campaign finance, the history of the mass media, and television advertising in election campaigns.

Dr. West is a frequent commentator on media and elections, and has been quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post, and on National Public Radio and CNN. He has served as an election consultant to local television stations in Providence since 1988.

His book publications include Patrick Kennedy: The Rise to Power, Checkbook Democracy: How Money Corrupts Political Campaigns, The Sound of Money, Air Wars: television Advertising in Political Campaigns, 1952-1996, Cross Talk: Citizens, Candidates, and the Media in a Presidential Campaign, Public Opinion in Rhode Island, 1984-1993, Congress and Economic Policymaking, and Making Campaigns Count. His new book, The Rise an Fall of the Media Establishment, is coming in 2001.

Dr. West received his B.A. from Miami University of Ohio and his M.A and Ph.D. (1981) from Indiana University.

(c) 2001, University of Virginia Center for Governmental Studies.