Paul Sniderman

Paul Sniderman, Ph.D., an American political scientist, is the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor of Public Policy at Stanford University. [ [http://politicalscience.stanford.edu/faculty/sniderman.html Staff page at Stanford University]

He 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 pre-disposed to give the socially-acceptable response rather than express their true feelings. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= DIALOGUE: PAUL SNIDERMAN. What Whites Think. Using innovative opinion surveys, a professor of political science unearths hidden attitudes on race and affirmative action.|url=http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/1998/janfeb/lsjournal/dialogue.html |work= Stanford Magazine|publisher= |date=January-February 1998 |accessdate=2008-04-28 ] [cite news |first=John |last=Crace |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= Interview - Paul Sniderman: Identity crisis. Multiculturalism may seem a liberal policy, but it reinforces prejudices, a visiting expert tells John Crace |url=http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/profile/story/0,,2116731,00.html |work=The Guardian |publisher= |date=July 3, 2007 |accessdate=2008-04-28 ] [cite news |first=Richard |last=Morin |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= The Hidden Truth About Liberals and Affirmative Action |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/affirm/stories/aa092197.htm |work= |publisher=Washington Post |date=Sunday, September 21, 1997|page=page C05 |accessdate=2008-04-28 ]

Books

* 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, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
* Diana Mutz, 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, Mass.: 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. ISBN 0691048398
* 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. ISBN 2724608755
* 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.

Awards

* E.E. Schattschneider Award, 1972
* Mellon Fellowship, 1974
* Guggenheim Fellowship, 1975-76
* Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1977-78
* Woodrow Wilson Foundation Prize, 1992, American Political Science Association for best book published in political science, considering all fields
* Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Indiana University, 1993
* Franklin L. Burdette Pi Sigma Alpha Award, best paper presented at the national meetings of American Political Science Association, considering all fields, 1994
* Gustavus Meyers Center, Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights, 1994
* Tip O’Neil Memorial Lecturer, Boston College, 1995
* Charles Halleck Memorial Lecturer, Indiana University, 1996
* Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1997
* Elie Halevy Chair, Institute d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, 1998
* Harold D. Lasswell Award, 1998, International Society of Political Psychology, for distinguished scientific life-time contribution to the study of political psychology
* Gladys M. Kammerer Award, 1998, American Political Science Association, for the best political science publication in the field of U.S. national policy
* John Olin Lecture, University of Toronto, 1999.
* Pi Sigma Alpha Award, best paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, considering all fields, 2000
* The British Academy Lecture, 2002 CREST Conference, London
* The Ralph J. Bunche Award, 2003, American Political Science Association, for the best scholarly work in political science which explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism.

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