See How They Run: Electing the President in an Age of Mediaocracy

by Paul Taylor

Argues that America's flawed electoral process is excessively concerned with the media and is turning off voters, and proposes potential improvements

Genres: Politics

305 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Paul Taylor is the executive vice president of special projects at the Pew Research Center, where he oversees demographic, social and generational research. Taylor is the author of The Next America, a new book examining generations and the country’s changing demographics. From 1996 through 2003, he served as president and board chairman of the Alliance for Better Campaigns. Before that, he was a newspaper reporter for 25 years, the last 14 at The Washington Post, where he covered national politics and served as a foreign correspondent. From 1992-1995, he was the Post’s bureau chief in South Africa and reported on the historic transformation from apartheid to democracy. He also covered four U.S. presidential campaigns. Taylor is also the author of See How They Run (Knopf, 1990) and co-author of The Old News Versus the New News (Twentieth Century Fund, 1992). He twice served as the visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University, in 1989 and 1995. He graduated in 1970 with a bachelor’s in American Studies from Yale University. Taylor has lectured at numerous colleges and frequently discusses Pew Research studies in print and broadcast media.

Reviews

[Snail in Danger (Sid) Nicolaides]

This book chronicles the 1988 American presidential election ... that was the first time I can remember being aware of electoral politics, so I was kind of curious. It seems to be well done and well researched, but it's not the kind of thing I feel overwhelmingly interested in at the moment.