Articles and Publications

Articles in Pajamas Media:

• For a list of all my articles in Pajamas Media, go here.

Articles in Newspapers:

• "A mission Statement of value", The Christian Science Monitor, January 3, 2007
  
  
• "When 'cool' messages lose their punch", The Christian Science Monitor, January 23, 2006
  
  
• "What if the US had to write a constitution from scratch?", The Christian Science Monitor, August 19, 2005
  
  
• "Sportsmanship redefined by bushy-haired skaters", The Christian Science Monitor, August 15, 2005
  
  
• "Keep Deep Throat in Watergate Parable", The Christian Science Monitor, June 6, 2005
  
  
• "There's No Place Like Home for Take-the-Kids-to-Work Day", The Christian Science Monitor, April 28, 2005
  
  
• "Does Matt Santos Really Have to be Fictional?", The Christian Science Monitor, March 24, 2005
  
  
• "Moral Doughnuts, Backbone, and You", The Christian Science Monitor, February 22, 2005
  
  
• "Tiny Screens Change That Holiday Glow", The Christian Science Monitor, January 7, 2005
  
  
• "Polarized? Not in My Backyard", The Christian Science Monitor, November 24, 2004
  
  
• "Open-Source Campaigning", The Christian Science Monitor, September 22, 2004
  
  
• "Democracy's Open Book Test", The Washington Post, July 28, 2004 (view PDF here)
  
  
• "Polemics of Head and Heart", The Christian Science Monitor, May 18, 2004 (view PDF here)
  
  
• "Looking For a Voice in All The Wrong Places", The Christian Science Monitor, April 5, 2004 (view PDF here)
  
  
• "The Meaning in the 'Message'", The Christian Science Monitor, November 19, 2003 (view PDF here)

Reports and Papers:

• "The Energy Problem: Choices For An Uncertain Future," issue book for the National Issues Forums. The Kettering Foundation, Dayton, Ohio, 2006.
  
  
• "Legislators at a Crossroads: Making Choices to Work Differently," with Chris Carlson for the Policy Consensus Initiative, 2006. (Available for free download from PCI.)
  
  
• "Thriving Communities: Working together to move from poverty to prosperity for all," discussion guide for the Study Circles Resource Center and the Northwest Area Foundation, 2006. (Available for free download from SCRC.)
  
  
• "Mr. Boyd Connects," report for The Kettering Foundation. Dayton, Ohio, 2006. (Available for free download from the National Issues Forums Institute.)
  
  
• "Life and Death Decisions: Who Decides?" Issue book for the National Issues Forums. The Kettering Foundation, Dayton, Ohio, 2005. (Available by request from NIFI.)
  
  

Older Reports:

• "The Dimensions of Disgust: Citizen Attitudes and Codes of Campaign Conduct," with John C. Green. Institute for Global Ethics, Camden, Maine, 2003.
  
  
• "Clean Campaigns: How to Promote Campaign Codes of Conduct," with Wayne Saucier and Mathew Krumme. Institute for Global Ethics, Camden, Maine, 2002 (with the National Civic League). Funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. (990K PDF file)
  
  
• "Bridging The Divide in U.S. Political Life," discussion guide (2001) and report (2002) to the Kettering Foundation. Institute for Global Ethics, Camden, Maine
  
• "Feasibility of a Grassroots Coalition on Codes of Campaign Conduct in the 2000 Election Cycle." Institute for Global Ethics, Camden, Maine, 1999. Feasibility report for client, The Pew Charitable Trusts.
  
  

Book Contribution:

• "More Than Voting", chapter contributed to Shades of Gray: Perspectives on Campaign Ethics (Nelson, Dulio, Medvic eds., Brookings, 2002)

Older Articles:

• "Can Citizenship Education Improve America's Relationship with Politics?", Character Educator, Spring 2002
  
• "Rules of the Game: Codes of Campaign Conduct", Public Perspectives, September/October 2000 (view PDF here)
  
• "Supporters Question Candidates' Ethics", Cleveland Plain Dealer, 6/10/2000 (view PDF here)
  
• "Americans Want Fair Campaigning", Cleveland Plain Dealer, 12/18/1999 (view PDF here)
  
• "Taking the Pledge: Campaign Codes of Conduct", Campaigns & Elections, August 1999
  
• "Ohioans Must Demand Fair, Honest Campaigning", Cleveland Plain Dealer, 10/14/1998 (view PDF here)
  
• "A Funny Thing Happened to Us on the Way to the Candidate's Forum," with Rushworth M. Kidder, Foundation News & Commentary, July/August 1998
  
• "New Voters' Poll Offers Candidates a Fair-Campaign Roadmap to Follow", with Liz Pierini, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 8/14/1998

Ethics Newsline articles:

• "Voters Want a Fair Fight - But What Does That Mean?", Ethics Newsline, 7/22/2002
• "As Seen on West Wing", Ethics Newsline, 5/6/2002
• "Rudeness and The Moral Barometer", Ethics Newsline, 4/8/2002
• "The Permanent Campaign: Here To Stay?", Ethics Newsline, 3/4/2002
• "Toledo, Cradle of Civility", Ethics Newsline, 12/3/2001
• "Reporter's Notebook", Ethics Newsline, 9/17/2001
• "Science Marches On", Ethics Newsline, 8/20/2001
• "Adjustable or Fixed?", Ethics Newsline, 3/19/2001
• "The New Rumour Mill", Ethics Newsline, 2/26/2001
• "Does Business Ethics Exist?", Ethics Newsline, 12/11/2001
• "Civics TQM", Ethics Newsline, 11/13/2000
• "Ethics is No Optical Illusion", Ethics Newsline, 7/17/2000
• "Storm Over the Judicial Horizon", Ethics Newsline, 4/10/2000
  
  

(Ethics Newsline is a publication of the Institute for Global Ethics.)

 

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