Brad Rourke

Some articles and publications I’ve written.

Reports and Papers:

• “Coping With The Cost Of Health Care: How Do We Pay For What We Need?,” issue book for the National Issues Forums. The Kettering Foundation, Dayton, Ohio, 2008. (Download the issue brief here.)
• “Struggling To Make Ends Meet: Americans Worry About Income And Economy“, for the Northwest Area Foundation. This report on the third annual survey on people’s attitudes toward poverty in their communities shows anxiety on the rise. The survey was performed by a team led by my friend Mike Perry at Lake Research Partners.
• “Prevailing In The Long Run,” an impact report on Northwest Area Foundation’s truly groundbreaking Horizons program. Horizons is a community leadership program that is focused on developing capacity in communities to reduce poverty.
• “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 downloadfrom 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.)
  

• “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.

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 PDFhere)
• “The Meaning in the ‘Message’”, The Christian Science Monitor, November 19, 2003 (view PDF here)

Book Contribution:

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