Paul M. Sniderman

Paul M. Sniderman is the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor in Public Policy and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Sniderman's current research focuses on the institutional organization of political choice; multiculturalism and inclusion of Muslims in Western Europe; and the politics of race in the United States. 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. He received his B.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Toronto and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.  

Most recently, he co-authored Paradoxes of Liberal Democracy: Islam Western Europe and the Danish Cartoon Crisis (with Michael Bang Petersen, Rune Slothuus and Rune Stubager) and The Reputational Premium: A Theory of Party Identification and Policy Reasoning (with Edward H. Stiglitz). He has published many other books, including Reasoning and Choice, The Scar of Race, Reaching beyond Race, The Outsider, and Black Pride and Black Prejudice, in addition to a plethora of articles. He initiated the use of computer-assisted interviewing to combine randomized experiments and general population survey research. 

Sniderman is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has been awarded the Woodrow Wilson Prize in 1992, the Franklin L. Burdette PI Sigma Alpha Award in 1994, the Gladys M. Kammerer Award in 1998 and the Ralph J. Bunche Award in 2003.