David Hart is an assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where he teaches courses on science, technology, innovation, and public policy, and on electoral and advocacy politics. His book, Forging the Postwar Consensus: The Governance of Technological Innovation in the United States, 1921-1953, will be published by Princeton University Press next year. Hart is co-organizer of the Boston-area Workshop on American Political Development, which will be holding its second annual conference at the Kennedy School on September 28, on the subject of "The Politics of Economic Inequality in the Twentieth Century." He also serves as a member of the Task Force on Genetic Testing, Privacy, and Public Policy of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT.