He was a visiting scholar at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. Dye has served as president of the Southern Political Science Association, the Policy Studies Organization, and has served as the secretary of the American Political Science Association.
Presently, Dye served as past president of the Lincoln Center for Public Service.
His two best known works The Irony of Democracy (now in its 17th edition) and Who's Running America?
(now in its 8th edition, The Obama Reign) discuss this on-going conflict in great detail.
Dye has also researched and published on the role of major campaign contributors, foundations and think tanks, interest groups, and the media in policy formation in Washington, D.C. [2]