Steven Hill is the senior analyst for the Center for Voting
and Democracy
(
www.fairvote.org),
a non-profit organization that educates the public about the
impact of voting systems and the legislative redistricting
process on representation, voter turnout, the quality of
campaigns, legislative policy, and campaign finance reform.
He is author of "Fixing Elections: The Failure of
America's Winner Take All Politics" (Routledge Press,
2002, www.FixingElections.com
and co-author of "Whose Vote Counts" (Beacon Press,
2001).
He is a frequent contributor of political commentaries to
the Knight-Ridder wire service, and his articles and
commentaries have appeared in dozens of newspapers and
magazines, including the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times,
Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times,
The Nation, Ms., Roll Call, American Prospect, Miami Herald,
Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune, Houston Chronicle, San Antonio
Express-News, Providence Journal, Hartford Courant,
Minneapolis Star Tribune, Salon.com, Mother Jones Wire,
TomPaine.com, Asian Week, Christian Science Monitor, San
Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Denver Post,
Charlotte Observer, Sacramento Bee, Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, Seattle Times, Oakland Tribune,
Albuquerque Tribune, Arizona Republic, Pensacola News Journal,
The Oregonian, Cleveland Plain-Dealer, Buffalo News, Syracuse
Post-Standard, The Missoulian, Tallahassee Democrat, Biloxi
Sun Herald, Durham Herald-Sun, San Diego Daily Transcript,
Cincinnati Enquirer, Madison (WI) Capital Times, Amarillo
Globe-News, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Wichita Eagle, Santa
Fe New Mexican, and many others.
His work has also been published in magazines like Boston
Review, Social Policy, National Civic Review, In These Times,
Dollars and Sense, The Humanist, On The Issues, Z Magazine,
New Internationalist, Politik-Digital (Germany), Italy Daily,
International Herald Tribune, San Francisco Bay Guardian, and
others.
His work also has been published in the academic press,
including Representation: Journal of Representative Democracy
(Winter 1998), Asian American Policy Review, Inroads: a
Journal of Opinion (Issue 7, 1998), and the anthologies Making
Every Vote Count (Broadview Press) and Civil Rights Since 1787
(New York University Press). He co-authored a paper presented
to the Western Political Science Association convention in
1997.
CVD has created a special
page devoted to Steven's contributions.
He is a frequent guest on radio and TV shows, and has given
presentations and workshops to numerous conferences, charter
commissions, legislative committees and organizations.
He is a researcher of European politics and political
institutions, having conducted research trips in the past two
years to Brussels, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Berlin, Frankfurt,
and Bonn.
He was the campaign manager of Proposition A in San
Francisco, the historic campaign that resulted in San
Franciscans voting to adopt instant runoff voting to elect
their local government. He also was one of the organizers of
Proposition O, San Francisco's successful ballot measure for
public financing of local elections.
He lives in San Francisco, CA.
Steven can be reached at: [email protected]
