Adam J. Berinsky (born 1970) is a professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [1] [2] He is the author of the 2004 book Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America [3] [4] [5] [6] and the 2009 book In Time of War: Understanding Public Opinion, From World War II to Iraq . [7] [8]
A graduate of Hunter College High School in New York City, [9] he completed his undergraduate education at Wesleyan University and received his Ph.D. from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor from the Department of Political Science in 2000. [10]
In 2013, Berinsky received the Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research from the Board of Directors of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University. [11]
In 2016 the Finnish government hired him to train their staff in countering Russian disinformation. [12]
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The American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) is a professional organization of more than 2,000 public opinion and survey research professionals in the United States and from around the world, with members from academia, media, government, the non-profit sector and private industry. AAPOR publishes three academic journals: Public Opinion Quarterly, Survey Practice and the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology. It holds an annual research conference and maintains a "Code of Professional Ethics and Practices", for survey research which all members agree to follow. The association's founders include pioneering pollsters Archibald Crossley, George Gallup, and Elmo Roper.
Public Opinion Quarterly is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Oxford University Press for the American Association for Public Opinion Research, covering communication studies, political science, current public opinion, and survey research and methodology. It was established in 1937 and according to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 3.4.
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