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40
Citations
30393
World Ranking
474
National Ranking
261

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1990 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Donald R. Kinder is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily centers around the social sciences, with significant contributions in political science and related interdisciplinary areas.

Their work spans several subfields, including sociology and political science, political science and international relations, and gender studies. This multidisciplinary approach allows for explorations of complex social and political phenomena through various analytical lenses.

Key topics addressed in their research include:

  • Migration, refugees, and integration
  • Electoral systems and political participation
  • Gender politics and representation
  • Political philosophy and ethics
  • Social and intergroup psychology

Collaborations have been part of their scholarly activity, notably with Don Herzog as a frequent co-author.

Donald R. Kinder has been recognized by several prestigious institutions throughout their career. They were named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1990, elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993, and became a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2017.

Best Publications

  • News that matters : television and American opinion

    Shanto Iyengar;Donald R. Kinder

  • Divided by Color: Racial Politics and Democratic Ideals

    Donald R. Kinder;Lynn M. Sanders

  • Prejudice and politics: Symbolic racism versus racial threats to the good life.

    Donald R. Kinder;David O. Sears

  • Sociotropic Politics: The American Case

    Donald R. Kinder;D. Roderick Kiewiet

  • Economic Discontent and Political Behavior: The Role of Personal Grievances and Collective Economic Judgments in Congressional Voting

    Donald R. Kinder;D. Roderick Kiewiet

  • Altering the Foundations of Support for the President Through Priming

    Jon A. Krosnick;Donald R. Kinder

  • Affective and semantic components in political person perception.

    Robert P. Abelson;Donald R. Kinder;Mark D. Peters;Susan T. Fiske

  • Experimental Demonstrations of the “Not-So-Minimal” Consequences of Television News Programs

    Shanto Iyengar;Mark D. Peters;Donald R. Kinder

  • Issue Frames and Group-Centrism in American Public Opinion

    Thomas E. Nelson;Donald R. Kinder

  • Us Against Them: Ethnocentric Foundations of American Opinion

    Donald R. Kinder;Cindy D. Kam

  • Mimicking Political Debate with Survey Questions: The Case of White Opinion on Affirmative Action for Blacks

    Donald R. Kinder;Lynn M. Sanders

  • Opinion and action in the realm of politics.

    Donald R. Kinder

  • The novice and the expert: Knowledge-based strategies in political cognition

    Susan Tufts Fiske;Donald R. Kinder;W. Michael Larter

  • Making Sense of Issues Through Media Frames: Understanding the Kosovo Crisis

    Adam J. Berinsky;Donald R. Kinder

  • Neither Liberal nor Conservative

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  • COMMUNICATION AND OPINION

    Donald R. Kinder

  • Exploring the Racial Divide: Blacks, Whites, and Opinion on National Policy

    Donald R. Kinder;Nicholas Winter

  • The evening news and presidential evaluations

    Shanto Iyengar;Donald R. Kinder;Mark D. Peters;Jon A. Krosnick

  • Experimental Demonstrations of the “Not-So-Minimal” Consequences of Television News Programs

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  • The Continuing American Dilemma: White Resistance to Racial Change 40 Years After Myrdal

    Donald R. Kinder

  • Terror and Ethnocentrism: Foundations of American Support for the War on Terrorism

    Cindy D. Kam;Donald R. Kinder

  • Experimental foundations of political science

    Donald R. Kinder;Thomas R. Palfrey

  • Economics and Politics in the 1984 American Presidential Election

    Donald R. Kinder;Gordon S. Adams;Paul W. Gronke

Frequent Co-Authors

Cindy D. Kam
Cindy D. Kam Vanderbilt University
Shanto Iyengar
Shanto Iyengar Stanford University
D. Roderick Kiewiet
D. Roderick Kiewiet California Institute of Technology
David O. Sears
David O. Sears University of California, Los Angeles
Susan T. Fiske
Susan T. Fiske Princeton University
Jon A. Krosnick
Jon A. Krosnick Stanford University
Tom R. Tyler
Tom R. Tyler Yale University
Robert P. Abelson
Robert P. Abelson Yale University
James S. Jackson
James S. Jackson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David E. Kanouse
David E. Kanouse RAND Corporation

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