Author: Little League, Big Dreams (Sourcebooks, August 2006).
Author: The Last Nine Innings (Sourcebooks, March 2006).
Author: The Elements of Place: Rules for Design
(in progress).
Coauthor with Stephen McGovern: Urban Policy
Reconsidered: Dialogues on the Problems and Prospects of American Cities
(Routledge, 2003).
Editor and contributor: Governing Greater Boston:
Meeting the Needs of the Region’s People (Rappaport Institute for Greater
Boston, 2003).
Editor and contributor: Governing Greater Boston:
The Politics and Policy of Place (Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston,
2002).
Author: Extraordinary Politics: How Protest and
Dissent Are Changing American Democracy (Westview Press, 1996).
Author: Playing the Field: Why Sports Teams Move
and Cities Fight to Keep Them (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993).
Coauthor with John Anthony Maltese: Selecting the
President: From Washington to Bush (Congressional Quarterly Press, 1991).
Contributions to opinion and review pages of major
publications, including The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, The
Sun (Baltimore), The American Political Science Review, St.
Petersburg Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington
Monthly, The Record (Bergen County, N.J.), The Dallas Morning News,
and Incentive.
“Tourism and
Sports: The Serious Competition for Play,” in Dennis R. Judd and Susan S.
Fainstein, editors, The Tourist City (Yale University Press, 1999).
“The Electoral Process” (with John Anthony Maltese),
“Taking Office” (with John Anthony Maltese), “Chronology of Presidential
Elections,” “Presidential Appearances,” “Public Support and Opinion,” “The
President and Interest Groups,” in Michael Nelson, editor Guide to the
Presidency (Congressional Quarterly Press, 1989 and 1996).
“The Politics of Urban Expansion: Baltimore and the Sewerage Question, 1859-1905,” Maryland Historical Magazine, Fall 1991.
Lecturer, Department of English, Yale University, September 2007 to present.
Executive Director, Rappaport Institute for Greater
Boston, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, September
2000 to June 2004.
Associate Director, Center for Urban and Regional
Policy, Northeastern University, April 1998 to August 2000.
Project Manager, Boston 400 (citywide planning
initiative), Boston Redevelopment Authority, January 1997 to January 1999.
Assistant Professor, Department of Political
Science, College of the Holy Cross, September 1990 to January 1997.
Instructor, Division of History and Social Science,
St. Mary’s College of Maryland, January 1989 to June 1990.
Instructor, Department of Political Science,
University of Pennsylvania, September to December 1988.
Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of
Political Science, The Johns Hopkins University, September 1985 to December
1987.
Staff Writer, Education Week, September 1982
to April 1984.
Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Political
Science, The Johns Hopkins University, September 1990.
Master of Arts, Department of Political Science, The
Johns Hopkins University, June 1988.
Bachelor of Arts, Department of Political Science,
Vanderbilt University, May 1982.