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ROBERT Y SHAPIRO

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fax: +1 212-222-0598
work: +1 212-854-3944

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ROBERT Y SHAPIRO
PROFESSOR
Columbia University
POLITICAL SCIENCE

Biography
Robert Y. Shapiro (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1982). He specializes in American politics with research and teaching interests in public opinion, policymaking, political leadership, the mass media, and 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 (University of Chicago). 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 Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness (with Lawrence R. Jacobs, University of Chicago Press, 2000). He serves on the editorial boards of Political Science Quarterly, Presidential Studies 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 American national policymaking, political leadership and opinion from 1960 to the present.

Research Interests: public opinion and political behavior, political psychology, mass media, political leadership, the presidency,foreign policy, health and social welfare policy, methodology

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