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Dr. Dario Moreno is the Director of the Metropolitan Center and Associate Professor of Political Science at Florida International University. He conducts research on Miami Politics, Florida Politics, and Cuban-American Politics. He has published over 20 scholarly articles, book chapters and two books. Dr. Moreno is a nationally recognized expert on Florida and Miami Politics and is often quoted in both the national and local media. He is a contributing editor to the Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy. He has been a Pew Scholar at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a Fulbright scholar in Costa Rica.
Dr. Dario Moreno teaches a variety of classes in the Department of Political Science at FIU, including Miami Politics, Cuban Politics, Florida Politics, and a Graduate Seminar in Urban Politics. For information on Dr. Moreno's classes or The Metropolitan Center please contact The Metropolitan Center at Florida International University, 305-349-1253, or via email at morenod@fiu.edu.
Past Publication and Articles:
Florida's Politics: Ten Media Markets, One Powerful State
Florida's Politics: Ten Media Markets, One Powerful State, is an invaluable tool for journalists, instructors, political consultants, campaign managers, elected officials and anyone working in national or state politics. The impact of Florida 's Hispanic population will continue to dominate state and national election results beyond 2004. African-Americans have, along with Hispanics, taken the forefront in the political realm and established trends and attitudes unique to the state. As demographics and ethnicity converge to form discernible voting patterns, especially in the South Florida region, the state will maintain overpowering influence and demonstrate the critical role it has played in major political events. The power of Florida 's politics extends beyond governmental structure and political networking to encompass the fundamental impact of population growth within the State. National Elections have placed increasing attention on Florida , as its swing vote power served to determine who became president in 2000, and in statewide Congressional and Gubernatorial seats. As a result, Florida 's ethnic minorities have become the monolith of political strength in the state, leaving politicians with the task of strategically assessing the swing behavior of the State.
Florida's Politics contains a region-by-region approach that focuses on the state as a series of ten media markets, highlighting unique issues and providing a profile of racial and ethnic composition, gender, age, party registration, voter turnout, and election outcomes, including the 2000 presidential and the 2002 gubernatorial elections. The book includes regional breakdowns of campaign contributions and media outlets (newspapers, television), and closely analyzes recent trends in Florida politics in an easily understood style, complete with maps, charts and graphs.
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