Ruy Teixeira
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Life and career
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Teixeira was born in Washington, D.C. to Bernardo and Marie (née Overmeyer) Teixeira. His one older sibling, Diogo Teixeira, is a businessman, and his younger half-brother, Bernardo de Albergaria, a marketing executive. Teixeira's parents divorced when he was quite young, and he grew up strongly influenced by his mother, who was an artist, painter, and teacher.
Teixeira skipped a grade in junior high and graduated from
After graduate school, he moved to New York and worked for a polling firm for a year before moving to Washington to do consulting work, chiefly at Abt Associates. In 1987, his dissertation was published as the book Why Americans Don't Vote, by
Teixeira left consulting after several years and took a government job at the Economic Research Service, where he studied labor market issues, chiefly the so-called skills mismatch between low-skilled and high-skilled workers. From there, he moved as a visiting fellow to the Brookings Institution, where in 1992, he published the book The Disappearing American Voter, focusing on voter turnout. Afterwards, he moved to the Progressive Policy Institute, the think tank of the Democratic Leadership Council, to start a political studies program. In 1994, Teixeira went to work at another think tank, the Economic Policy Institute, to direct their politics and public opinion program, and he stayed there until 1999.
In 1999, he moved to the Century Foundation's Washington office, where he is a senior fellow, and in 2003, he became a senior fellow of the newly formed Center for American Progress, headed by John Podesta, Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton and co-chair of President Barack Obama's transition team.
Teixeira has also been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, where he co-directed a joint Brookings-
Teixeira is the author or co-author of six books, including Red, Blue and Purple America: The Future of Election Demographics; The Emerging Democratic Majority; America's Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters; and The Disappearing American Voter, as well as hundreds of articles, both scholarly and popular. He also writes Public Opinion Snapshot, a weekly feature on the CAP and TCF websites.
Teixeira's book The Emerging Democratic Majority, written with
References
External links
- Video (and audio) debate/discussion about the future of the Republican and Democratic parties with Teixeira and Ross Douthat on Bloggingheads.tv
- Video (and audio) discussion with Ruy Teixeira and Reihan Salam on Bloggingheads.tv
- "Is there (still) an emerging progressive majority in the United States?" by Ruy Teixeira, published on Sens Public
- Appearances on C-SPAN