Alan Ehrenhalt 
Alan Ehrenhalt served for 19 years as executive editor of Governing Magazine, and is currently one of its contributing editors. He has been a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review and op-ed page, the Washington Post Book World, New Republic and The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of four books: The United States of Ambition, The Lost City, Democracy in the Mirror, and The Great Inversion. He was also the creator and editor of the first four editions of Politics in America, a biennial reference book profiling all 535 members of Congress. Alan Ehrenhalt is a 1968 graduate of Brandeis University and holds an MS in journalism from Columbia. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard from 1977-1978; a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1987-1988; a Regents’ Lecturer at UCLA in 2006; an adjunct faculty member at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, at the University of Richmond, from 2004 through 2008; and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland Graduate School of Public Policy in 2009. In 2000 he received the American Political Science Association’s McWilliams award for distinguished contributions to the field of political science by a journalist. He is married, has two daughters, and lives in Arlington, Virginia.
Recent Articles
- Defying Proverbial Wisdom
- California governors have a penchant for reinventing themselves in an election year. And voters seem to admire the audacity of a chameleon.
- The Blue-ing of the Burbs
- A belated thought about what happened in Virginia last Tuesday, and what it might mean for other states: There was a time, not too ...
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- The Albany Triopoly
- In New York, it's the governor, the Assembly speaker and the Senate president who decide all the state's crucial policy questions.
- How Rail Impacts Retail
- A successful transit line means a more intense commercial life around the stations, and that means higher property values, higher rents and the invasion of chain stores.
- Why Are Female Lawmakers So Blue?
- Wandering around the NCSL website the other day, I stumbled on some interesting figures on the gender makeup of legislatures. Women comprise about 23 percent of ...
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- Supreme Teases
- Those Supreme Court justices, they're a bunch of teasers, aren't they? For the past 20 years they've been saying that raw partisan gerrymandering is potentially unconstitutional ...
- The Bungalow Bind
- Middle-aged suburbs with a disproportionate number of houses from the 1950s and '60s are in trouble.
- The Unconstitutional Governor
- Woodrow Wilson's term as governor of New Jersey had a major impact on the future of state government in America.
- The Legacy of Jane Jacobs
- So much has been said already about Jane Jacobs in the short time since her death -- or will be said in ...
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- The Grocery Gap
- Supermarkets are slowly returning to the inner city. Some governments are clearing roadblocks to help build stores.
- It's About Time
- Well, Sunday morning I'll be running around the house grumbling about all the clocks, just like I do twice every year, wondering ...
- Naming Wrongs
- It's been amusing to watch the Minnesota university system and state legislature squabble over what to call the new stadium that will be built on ...
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- Theory of Partisan Reality
- The past decade has brought a marked increase in partisan unpleasantness in legislative bodies almost everywhere in the country.
- The "Bill Mckay Effect"
- We have a weakness for anointing eager young sons with modest credentials, solely on the strength of their connection to fathers we wouldn't take back if they begged us.
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