Steven Hill is the Director of the Political Reform Program of the New America Foundation (www.newamerica.net). His latest book is "Ten Steps to Repair American Democracy" (PoliPoint Press, May 2006, www.10steps.net). His previous books include "Fixing Elections: The Failure of America's Winner Take All Politics" (Routledge Press, 2002), which has been called "the most important book on American democracy that has come out in many years," and co-author of "Whose Vote Counts" (Beacon Press, 2001). His articles and commentaries have appeared in dozens of newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Salon, The Nation, Ms., San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Roll Call, American Prospect, New York Daily News, Miami Herald, Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune, Houston Chronicle, National Civic Review, Boston Review, In These Times, Dollars and Sense, The Humanist and many others. He has lectured widely in the United States and Europe, and he is a frequent political analyst on radio and TV shows, appearing on C-SPAN, Fox News, National Public Radio, and numerous radio and TV programs across the nation and in Europe. He was campaign manager in San Francisco of the successful effort that passed instant runoff voting for local offices, and was one of the organizers of San Francisco's successful efforts to enact public financing of campaigns for local elections. Steven Hill also is the former senior analyst and cofounder of the Center for Voting and Democracy/FairVote.
His work also has been published in international publications like International Herald Tribune, Prospect, Politik-Digital (Germany), Italy Daily, Prague Post, Taiwan News, New Internationalist and others; and in the academic press, including Representation: Journal of Representative Democracy (Winter 1998), Asian American Policy Review (Vol. X, 2002), Inroads: a Journal of Opinion (Issue 7, 1998), and in the anthologies Making Every Vote Count (Broadview Press, 1999), Civil Rights Since 1787 (New York University Press, 2000), and Democracy’s Moment (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).