Paul Sniderman

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Paul Sniderman
Born1941
Alma mater University of Toronto
University of California, Berkeley
OccupationPolitical scientist
EmployerStanford University

Paul Michael Sniderman (born 1941) is an American political scientist, and the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor of Public Policy at Stanford University.

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Early life

Sniderman was born in 1941. He graduated from the University of Toronto, and he earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. [1]

Career

Sniderman started his academic career as Assistant Professor at Stanford University from 1969 to 1971, and at the Universityof 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 Stanford University's Hoover Institution. [2]

Sniderman has received many awards. Among them a Guggenheim Fellowship, 1975–76. He has been a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 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. [3] [4] [5]

Publications

Sniderman authored and co-authored numerous publications. [2] A selection:

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References

  1. [http://politicalscience.stanford.edu/faculty/sniderman.html Staff page at Stanford University Archived 2008-03-12 at the Wayback Machine
  2. 1 2 VITA Paul M. Sniderman Archived 2013-10-02 at the Wayback Machine CV July 2013
  3. "DIALOGUE: PAUL SNIDERMAN. What Whites Think. Using innovative opinion surveys, a professor of political science unearths hidden attitudes on race and affirmative action". Stanford Magazine. January–February 1998. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
  4. Crace, John (July 3, 2007). "Interview - Paul Sniderman: Identity crisis. Multiculturalism may seem a liberal policy, but it reinforces prejudices, a visiting expert tells John Crace". The Guardian. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
  5. Morin, Richard (September 21, 1997). "The Hidden Truth About Liberals and Affirmative Action". Washington Post. p. C05. Retrieved 2008-04-28.