Paul Sniderman, Ph.D., an American political scientist, is the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor of Public Policy at Stanford University

Stanford University

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. He is a senior fellow at Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

's Hoover Institution

Hoover Institution

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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 predisposed to give the socially acceptable response rather than express their true feelings.

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
  Guggenheim Fellowship
  Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
  
  , 1975–76
• Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1977–78
• Woodrow Wilson Foundation Prize, 1992, American Political Science Association
  American Political Science Association
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   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
  Pi sigma alpha
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   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
  American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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  , 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.