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476
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Robert Y. Shapiro is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and specializes primarily in the Social Sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Communication, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their work explores several topics, with notable focus on:

  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
  • Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements

Shapiro has contributed to a range of recent papers, including:

  • "American Attitudes Toward COVID-19: More Trumpism Than Partisanship," 2021, American Politics Research
  • "Uncovering the Online Social Structure Surrounding COVID-19," 2021, Journal of Social Computing
  • "The Nature of Partisan Conflict in Public Opinion: Asymmetric or Symmetric?", 2020, American Politics Research
  • "Meddling in the Ballot Box: The Causes and Effects of Partisan Electoral Intervention," 2021, Political Science Quarterly
  • "AAPOR Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement," 2022, Public Opinion Quarterly

The frequent co-authors of Shapiro include:

  • Brigitte L. Nacos
  • Yaeli Bloch-Elkon
  • Philip Waggoner
  • Samuel Frederick
  • Ming Gong

Publication venues frequently featuring Shapiro's work are:

  • American Politics Research
  • Journal of Social Computing
  • Political Science Quarterly
  • Public Opinion Quarterly
  • Columbia University Press eBooks

Shapiro has also published a book titled "Hate Speech and Political Violence" in 2024 through Columbia University Press, which has garnered citations within the academic community.

Among awards received, Shapiro was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009.

Best Publications

  • The Rational Public: Fifty Years of Trends in Americans' Policy Preferences

    Benjamin I. Page;Robert Y. Shapiro

  • Effects of Public Opinion on Policy

    Benjamin I. Page;Robert Y. Shapiro;Robert Y. Shapiro

  • The new American voter

    Robert Y. Shapiro;Warren E. Miller;J. Merrill Shanks

  • Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness

    Lawrence R. Jacobs;Robert Y. Shapiro

  • Gender Differences in Policy Preferences: A Summary of Trends from the 1960s to the 1980s

    Robert Y. Shapiro;Harpreet Mahajan

  • What moves public opinion

    Benjamin I. Page;Robert Y. Shapiro;Glenn R. Dempsey

  • A New Partisan Voter

    Joseph Bafumi;Robert Y. Shapiro

  • The Confidence Gap: Business, Labor, and Government in the Public Mind.

    Robert Y. Shapiro;Seymour Martin Lipset;William Schneider

  • ISSUES, CANDIDATE IMAGE, AND PRIMING: THE USE OF PRIVATE POLLS IN KENNEDY'S 1960 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

    Lawrence R. Jacobs;Robert Y. Shapiro

  • Foreign Policy and the Rational Public

    Robert Y. Shapiro;Benjamin I. Page

  • Public Opinion and American Democracy

    Robert Y. Shapiro

  • Studying Substantive Democracy

    Lawrence R. Jacobs;Robert Y. Shapiro

  • Constituency, Party, and Representation in Congress

    Benjamin I. Page;Benjamin I. Page;Robert Y. Shapiro;Paul W. Gronke;Robert M. Rosenberg

  • THE RISE OF PRESIDENTIAL POLLING THE NIXON WHITE HOUSE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

    Lawrence R. Jacobs;Robert Y. Shapiro

  • Business Political Power: The Case of Taxation.

    Dennis P. Quinn;Robert Y. Shapiro

  • Stealth Democracy: Americans' Beliefs about How Government Should Workby John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse

    Robert Shapiro

  • The polls-trends: Welfare

    R. Kent Weaver;Robert Y. Shapiro;Lawrence R. Jacobs

  • Changes in Americans' Policy Preferences, 1935–1979

    Benjamin I. Page;Robert Y. Shapiro

  • DO THE FACTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES? PARTISAN DISAGREEMENT AS A CHALLENGE TO DEMOCRATIC COMPETENCE

    Robert Y. Shapiro;Yaeli Bloch-Elkon

  • Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam

    Robert Y. Shapiro

  • The Rational Public: Fifty Years of Trends in American Policy Preferences

    Stewart J. H. McCann;Benjamin I. Page;Robert Y. Shapiro

  • The Voice of the People: Public Opinion and Democracy. By James S. Fishkin. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. 204p. $20.00.

    Robert Y. Shapiro

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence R. Jacobs
Lawrence R. Jacobs University of Minnesota
Benjamin I. Page
Benjamin I. Page Northwestern University
James S. Fishkin
James S. Fishkin Stanford University
Michael X. Delli Carpini
Michael X. Delli Carpini University of Pennsylvania
Costas Panagopoulos
Costas Panagopoulos Northeastern University
Jack Snyder
Jack Snyder Columbia University
Sidney Verba
Sidney Verba Harvard University
Seymour Martin Lipset
Seymour Martin Lipset George Mason University
John Dewey
John Dewey Columbia University
Robert Smith
Robert Smith University of Liverpool

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