THOMAS E. PATTERSON – Harvard University, JFK School of Government

Thomas E. Patterson is Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government His most recent book, The Vanishing Voter (2003), looks at the causes and consequences of declining electoral participation. His book on the media's political role, Out of Order (1993), received the American Political Science Association’s inaugural Doris Graber Award for best book in political communication of the last decade. An earlier book, The Unseeing Eye (1976), 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. His current research, funded by a grant from the Carnegie and Knight foundations, examines the rapid changes taking place in news consumption and supply.

First panel audio recording - T.Klvana, T. Patterson, A. Stanger, R. Yeoh, F. Kazemi, J. Jarab