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Gerald M. Pomper is an American political scientist and specialist in American elections and politics. [1] Pomper is the Board of Governors Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Eagleton Institute of Politics of Rutgers University. [2]
Pomper was born in the Bronx in 1935 to Jewish immigrants from Poland. [3] He grew up in Manhattan and graduated from Stuyvesant High School. [4] He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1955 on a Ford Foundation scholarship,majoring in political science and serving as managing editor of Columbia Daily Spectator . [5] He then received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. [3]
He began his academic career at the City College of New York,before moving to Rutgers University and served as the founding chair of the political science department of Livingston College. [3] He was a Fulbright scholar in 1971–72,teaching at Tel Aviv University. [6]
Pomper has been described as a leading authority in the field of election studies and was called the "Dean of American Political Science" by political historian Allan Lichtman. [7] [8] [9]
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