Paul Michael Sniderman (born 1941) is an American

political scientist Political science is the science, scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of politics, political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated c ...

, and the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor of Public Policy at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

Early life

Sniderman was born in 1941. He graduated from the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

, and he earned a PhD from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

Career

Sniderman started his academic career as Assistant Professor at Stanford University from 1969 to 1971, and at the University of Toronto from 1971-72. Back as Stanford he was Associate Professor for 1975 to 1981, where in 1981 he was appointed Professor of Public Policy. In 1987 he was also appointed Professor of Criminology at the University of Toronto. Since 1987 he is also associated with the University of California as Research Political Scientist, and since 1990 also as Research Psychologist. At Stanford University he chaired the Department of Political Science from 2001 to 2004 and is senior fellow at

Hoover Institution The Hoover Institution (officially The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace; abbreviated as Hoover) is an American public policy think tank and research institution that promotes personal and economic liberty, free enterprise, and ...

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CV July 2013 Sniderman has received many awards. Among them a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

, 1975–76. He has been a fellow of the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and ...

since 1997.

Work

Sniderman is noted for developing instruments capable of probing attitudes towards sensitive issued like racial or ethnic prejudice that enable researchers to discover the true attitudes of subjects in populations predisposed to give the socially acceptable response rather than express their true feelings.

Publications

Sniderman authored and co-authored numerous publications. A selection: * Paul M. Sniderman 1975. Personality and Democratic Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press * Paul M. Sniderman 1981. A Question of Loyalty. Berkeley: University of California Press * Paul M. Sniderman and Michael Gray Hagan. 1985. Race and Inequality: A Study in American Values. Chatham, N.J.: Chatham House. * Paul M. Sniderman, Richard A. Brody, and Philip E. Tetlock 1991. Reasoning and Choice: Explorations in Political Psychology. New York: Cambridge University Press. * Paul M. Sniderman, Philip E. Tetlock, and Edward G. Carmines 1993. (eds.) Prejudice, Politics and the American Dilemma, Stanford: Stanford University Press. * Paul M. Sniderman and Thomas Piazza 1993. The Scar of Race. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. *

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, Paul M. Sniderman, and Richard A. Brody 1996. (eds.). Political Persuasion. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press. * Paul M. Sniderman, Joseph F. Fletcher, Peter Russell, and Philip E. Tetlock 1996. The Clash of Rights: Liberty, Equality, and Legitimacy in Pluralist Democracies. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. * Paul M. Sniderman and Edward G. Carmines. 1997. Reaching Beyond Race. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. * Paul M. Sniderman, Pierangelo Peri, Rui de Figuerido, and Thomas Piazza. 2000. The Outsider: Prejudice and Politics in Italy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. * Paul M. Sniderman and Thomas Piazza, 2002. Black Pride and Black Prejudice. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. * Gerard Grunberg, Mayer, Nonna, et Paul M. Sniderman (eds.), 2002. La démocratie à l'épreuve. Une nouvelle approche de l'opinion des Français. Paris: Presses de Sciences Po. * Saris, Willem E., and Paul M. Sniderman, eds. 2004. Studies in Public Opinion: Attitudes, Nonattitudes, Measurement Error, and Change. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton: Princeton University Press.

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Paul Sniderman
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