ROBERT SHAPIRO

Robert Shapiro is currently a Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of Columbia University’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy. Professor Shapiro holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He specializes in American politics with research and teaching interests in public opinion, policymaking, political leadership, the mass media, and the applications of statistical methods. He has taught at Columbia since 1982 after receiving his degree and serving as a study director at the National Opinion Research Center. Professor Shapiro has published numerous articles in major academic journals, and is co-author of The Rational Public: Fifty Years of Trends in Americans' Policy Preferences (with Benjamin I. Page, University of Chicago Press, 1992) and coeditor of the series "Research in Micropolitics: New Directions in Political Psychology" (with Michael Delli-Carpini and Leonie Huddy, JAI Press, 1994). He serves on the editorial boards of Political Science Quarterly and Public Opinion Quarterly (editor of the "Poll Trends") and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. His current research is examining presidential policymaking and public opinion from 1960 to the present. His latest book (with Lawrence Jacobs) is Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness (2000, University of Chicago Press).

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