John Green bio

John C. Green is director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Akron, and also serves as a senior fellow in religion and American politics at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. He has done extensive research on American religious communities and politics. In addition to publishing his most recent book The Faith Factor: How Religion Influences American Elections, published by Praeger in 2007 as the first volume in a Greenberg Center series on Religion, Society and Politics. In addition, Green is the co-author of The Values Campaign: The Christian Right in American Politics, The Bully Pulpit: The Politics of Protestant Clergy, and Religion and the Culture Wars. In addition he is widely known as an observer of national and Ohio politics, and is frequently quoted in the press, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, NPR, CNN, ABC and CBS.