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David E. Price, Professor Emeritus of Political Science  

Duke Box: 90204
Email Address: dprice@duke.edu
Note: On leave, serving in the U.S. House of Representatives (4th District)

Areas of Expertise

    Education:
    Ph.D., Yale University, 1969

    Research Description: Congressional policymaking; ethics and public policy; American political parties

    Recent Publications

    1. Price, DE. "Recruiting Teachers: A Communitarian Approach." The Responsive Community. 2002
    2. Price, DE; McCorkle, M. ""Wilson Carey McWilliams and Communitarianism." Friends and Citizens: Essays in Honor of Wilson Carey McWilliams. Ed. Bathory, PD; Schwartz, NL Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001
    3. Price, DE. "Giving Politics its Due." Serving the Claims of Justice: The Thoughts of Paul B. Henry. Ed. Koopman, D Grand Rapids, Michigan: The Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics, 2001
    4. Price, DE. "Biennial Budgeting Not the Answer." Roll Call (March, 2000): 38-38.
    5. Price, DE. The Congressional Experience. 2nd edition Boulder: Westview Press, 2000.

    Highlight:

    David E. Price represented North Carolina’s Fourth District, the Research Triangle region, in the
    U.S. House of Representatives from 1987-94 and 1997-2022. He is a Polis Distinguished Fellow
    at the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, and a Professor Emeritus of Political
    Science at Duke. He currently serves on the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and the state
    board of NC Community Colleges.

    A member of the House Appropriations Committee, Price chaired the subcommittees on
    Homeland Security (2007-10) and Transportation - Housing and Urban Development (2019-22).
    He particularly focused on investments in mass transit and passenger rail and on enhanced
    funding for housing for the elderly and people with disabilities, protecting and improving
    manufactured housing communities, and the Choice Neighborhoods program.

    Price also chaired the House Democracy Partnership (HDP), a bipartisan commission he
    initiated to work peer-to-peer to support and strengthen representative institutions in
    emerging democracies. He worked extensively with Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, N.
    Macedonia, Kosovo, Mongolia, Indonesia, Kenya, Tunisia, and Peru, among other partner
    countries.

    Price grew up in Erwin, Tennessee, and was educated at Mars Hill College and the University of
    North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he held a Morehead-Cain scholarship. He obtained a
    Bachelor of Divinity degree and a Ph.D. in political science at Yale University. He taught four
    years at Yale before coming to Duke in 1973, where he held a joint appointment in political
    science and public policy. He is the author of four books and numerous articles on American
    politics and institutions, political thought, ethics, and foreign affairs, including The
    Congressional Experience, which he has taken through four editions.

    Price lives in Chapel Hill. He and his late wife Lisa are the parents of two children, Karen and
    Michael, and three grandchildren.

    David E. Price