Bachelor of Arts, Yale University (1972)
Masters in American Studies, Goddard College (1974)
Masters of Public Adminstration, Harvard Kennedy School (1994)
“Understanding Lani Guinier: Her Ideas for Election Democracy.” Review of her book, The Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy, 1994.
“Racial Districting”, The Nation, Oct 24, 1994
“Our Winner take-all game offers no choices”, Op-Ed, Boston Globe, Nov. 15 1994.
“The key to financing elections”, with Carin Schiewe, Op-Ed, Boston Globe, Aug. 29 1995.
“Winning Election Reform in the United States” National Civic Review, 2006.
“A New Model of Urban Voter Mobilization” with Gibran X. Rivera, National Civic Review, 2004.
“Grassroots Community Organizations and Voting: How to do voter registration, education, and voting for 501c3 Organizations and related nonprofits.” Chapter in “Roots to Power: A Manual for Grassroots Organizing”, pp. 239-302. Edited by Lee Staples. Forward by Richard A Cloward, Frances Fox Piven. 2nd Edition, 2004.
“Serving Democracy: Nonprofits Promote Voter Engagement in 2012.” Nonprofit Quarterly, 2012.
“Political competition hits-a historic low.” 2017: Part One, Part Two, Part Three
“Fair vote methods for multi-seat elections Nonprofit VOTE and Independent Voter News.” 2017.
“The Electoral College; A Compromise Never Meant to Last” Nonprofit VOTE, 2017.
“The Bias of At Large Elections.” Nonprofit VOTE, 2017.
“One Reason People Don’t Vote: They’re Not Contacted.” Nonprofit VOTE, 2017.
“The Brexit parties lose the vote, win the election in the UK.” Nonprofit VOTE, 2019.
“Ending the Cut off to Register to vote in all 50 states.” Nonprofit VOTE, 2019.
“Everything you need to know about ranked choice voting.” Nonprofit VOTE and Independent Voter News, 2018.
“Open primaries: Why voters in Florida and Alaska both did the right thing.” The Fulcrum, 2020.
“Not a Typo: States Made 2019 a Historic Year for Election Reform” with Miles Rapoport, American Prospect, 2020.
“Representing Lowell: The Problems of Winner-take-All Elections in Lowell’s At-large elections for School Committee and City Council 1995-2001” with Dan Toomey, U Mass Lowell, 2002.
“Obstacles to Fair Voting in Boston: Problems with winner-take-all voting in the At-Large seats on the Boston City Council for Candidates of color and other voting minorities.” Boston VOTE, 1995.
“A Legacy of Exclusion: The Use of Winner-Take-All at-large Voting in Springfield.” Boston VOTE, 1995.
“Building in a runoff would mean concrete choices.” With Kevin Peterson, Op-Ed, Boston Sunday Globe, 2000.
“Making Every Vote Count, A Report to improve and modernize elections for the City of Boston.” With Gibran Rivera. Boston VOTE, 2001.
“The Advantages of Matching Small Donations for Public Campaign Funding” Unpublished, 2005.
America Goes to the Polls: Nonprofit VOTE and the U.S. Elections Project 2006-2020: The official source of U.S. voter turnout in biennial national elections. 2018 edition, 2020 edition
“Why Not Call It Bribery?” Op-Ed, Boston Globe, 1996.
“Capital Gains: Big Donors in the State Legislature in Massachusetts.” Study of Legislative Fundraising, Mass Money and Politics Project 1998.
“Barriers to Entry: Money’s Role in Discouraging Candidate Competition in the 2000 Massachusetts Legislature, with Jeff Arp, Mass Money and Politics Project, 2001.
“The Money Threshold: A Summary of Campaign Spending, Competition, and Choice in the 1998 Massachusetts State Elections.” with Jeff Arp, Massachusetts Money and Politics Project, 1999.
“Laws for Sale: The Role of Money in Massachusetts Ballot Measures 1995.” Massachusetts Money and Politics Project, published by Dollars and Sense magazine, July/August 2000.
“Cashing In: Campaign Accounts without Campaigns.” Massachusetts Money and Politics Project 2001.
“Money and Competition in the 2002 Massachusetts State Elections.” Massachusetts Money and Politics Project and Common Cause, 2003.
“The Advantages of Matching Small Donations vs. Grants for Public Funding of Campaigns.” Unpublished, 2005.
“Inherited Wealth: Your Money and Your Life.” Funding Exchange, 1981.
Funding Exchange Directory of Socially Responsible Investments. with Ann Doley, the Bread and Roses Community Fund of Philadelphia, 1983.