Shanto Iyengar is an American political scientist and professor of political science at Stanford University. He is also the

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Professor of Communication at Stanford, the director of Stanford's Political Communication Lab, and a senior fellow at the

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Biography

Iyengar received his bachelor's degree from

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in 1968 and his Ph.D. from the

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in 1972. In 1973, he joined the faculty of Kansas State University as an assistant professor, where he remained until 1979. He taught at

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as an assistant professor from 1983 to 1985, and then taught at Stony Brook University and the

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before joining Stanford's faculty in 1998.

Research

Iyengar is known for his work on the role of the

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in contemporary politics. This includes work he conducted with

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political scientist Sean J. Westwood, in which they analyze partisan divisions in American politics.

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