James Morone

Who is James Morone?

James Morone is an American political scientist and author, noted for his work on health politics and policy and on popular participation and morality in American politics and political development.

Morone graduated with a B.A. from Middlebury College in 1973, where he studied under Professor Murray Dry, and then attended graduate school at the University of Chicago, where he completed an M.A. in 1976 and a PhD degree in political science in 1982. His doctoral dissertation examined "The dilemma of citizen action: representation and bureaucracy in local health politics."

Morone has taught at Brown University since 1982 and is a professor of political science and urban studies. He has also been a visiting professor at Yale University, the University of Bremen, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Morone's book Hellfire Nation is nonfiction. The Democratic Wish was awarded the Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the best book on American national policy by the American Political Science Association.

Morone edited the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law from 1989 to 1994.