Robert Y. Shapiro (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1982) is a professor and former chair of the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, and he served as acting director of Columbia's Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy during 2008-2009. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was a 2006-2007 Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. He specializes in American politics with research and teaching interests in public opinion, policymaking, political leadership, the mass media, and applications of statistical methods. He has taught at Columbia since 1982 after receiving his degree and serving as a study director at the National Opinion Research Center (University of Chicago).

Lawrence R. Jacobs has published 11 books and dozens of articles on elections, legislative and presidential politics, elections and public opinion, and a range of public policies including Health Care Reform and American Politics (Oxford University Press, 2010) and Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness (with Robert Y. Shapiro, University of Chicago Press). Dr. Jacobs co-edits the "Chicago Series in American Politics" for the University of Chicago Press and has published dozens of scholarly articles. His research has been recognized by a number of prizes. He is the Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair for Political Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance in the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute and the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota.

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Aimee Barbeau is a Ph.D. candidate at Georgetown University in the Department of Government.
Jackie Bass is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Matthew A. Baum is Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications, and Professor of Public Policy and Government at The Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government.
W. Lance Bennett is Professor of Political Science and Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of
Communication at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he also directs the Center
for Communication and Civic Engagement.
Adam Berinsky is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Bruce Bimber is professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
George Franklin Bishop is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Graduate Certificate Program in Public Opinion and Survey Research at the University of Cincinnati.
Yaeli Bloch-Elkon is a lecturer/assistant professor of Political Science and Communications at Bar Ilan University, Israel, and an associate research scholar at the university's Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA) and at Columbia University's Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP).
Ted Brader is associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan and research associate professor in the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research.
Katherine Ann Brown is a Ph.D. Candidate in Communications at Columbia University.
Erin Cassese is a professor of political science at West Virginia University.
Dennis Chong is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
Rodolfo O. de la Garza is the Eaton Professor of Administrative Law and Municipal Science in the Department of Political Science and the School of International and Public Affairs.
Michael X. Delli Carpini is Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
James N. Druckman is the Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University.
Patrick J. Egan is assistant professor of politics and public policy at New York University.
Douglas C. Foyle is the Douglas J. and Midge Bowen Bennet Associate Professor of Government at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
Carolyn L. Funk is associate professor in the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Brian J. Gaines is associate professor at the University of Illinois, with appointments in the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs.
Todd Gitlin is professor of journalism and sociology, and director of the Ph. D. program in communications, at Columbia University.
Doris Graber is professor of political science and communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago, founding editor of Political Communication.
John G. Gunnell is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Albany and currently a research associate at the University of California, Davis.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson is a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania and Director of its Annenberg Public Policy Center.
Bruce W. Hardy is a Senior Research Analyst at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania
Fredrick C. Harris is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center on African-American Politics and Society at Columbia University.
Susan Herbst is Professor of Public Policy at Georgia Tech and Chief Academic Officer for the University System of Georgia.
Sunshine Hillygus is associate professor of political science at Duke University and director of the Duke Initiative on Survey Methodology.
Matthew Hindman is assistant professor in the George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs.
Gregory G. Holyk is visiting professor of politics in the Williams School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics at Washington and Lee University, and survey consultant for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Leonie Huddy is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Survey Research at Stony Brook University.
Muzammil M. Hussain is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington.
Vincent L. Hutchings is professor of political science at the University of Michigan and research professor at the Institute for Social Research.
Shanto Iyengar is professor of communication and political science at Stanford University.
Lawrence R. Jacobs is the Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair for Political Studies in the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute and the Department of Political Science.
William G. Jacoby is professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University and Research Scientist at the University of Michigan, where he is Director of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research
Angela Jamison is a visiting scholar in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan.
Seung-Jin Jang is lecturer in discipline at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.
Jennifer Jerit is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Florida State University.
Jane Junn is Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California.
Marion Just is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor at Wellesley College in the Department of Political Science and an Associate of the Joan Shorenstein Center at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
James H. Kuklinski is Matthew T. McClure Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Taeku Lee is Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science and Professor in the School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.
Jeff Manza is Professor and Department Chair of Sociology at New York University.
George E. Marcus is professor of political science at Williams College.
Leslie McCall is associate professor of sociology and faculty fellow of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University.
Rose McDermott is a professor of Political Science at Brown University.
Kristyn L. Miller is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan.
Patricia Moy is the Christy Cressey Professor of Communication and adjunct professor of political science at the University of Washington.
John Mueller is Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, Mershon Center, and professor of political science at Ohio State University.
Brigitte L. Nacos is a journalist and adjunct professor of political science at Columbia University.
Thomas E. Nelson received his PhD in social psychology and is currently associate professor of Political Science at Ohio State University, in Columbus.
W. Russell Neuman is the John Derby Evans Professor of Media Technology in Communication Studies and Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.
Costas Panagopoulos is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Electoral Politics and Democracy at Fordham University.
Spencer Piston is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan.
Karthick Ramakrishnan is associate professor of political science at the University of California, Riverside.
Carin Robinson is an assistant professor of political science at Hood College.
Michael Schudson is Professor of Communication at the Columbia Journalism School, Columbia University.
Robert Y. Shapiro is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and a faculty fellow at its Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP).
Laura Stoker is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Charles Taber is professor of political science and director of the Laboratory for Experimental Research in Political Behavior at Stony Brook University.
Michael W. Traugott is Professor of Communication Studies and Research Professor in the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research, the University of Michigan.
Lynn Vavreck is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is Director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Campaigns and Co-PI of the Cooperative Campaign Analysis Project.
Clyde Wilcox is professor of Government at Georgetown University.
Nicole Willcoxon is a Ph.D. candidate and Chancellor's Diversity Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Janelle Wong is Associate Professor of Political Science and American Studies and
Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.