Background
Byron Edwin Shafer was born on January 8, 1947 in Hanover, Pennsylvania, United States; the son of Byron Henry Shafer and Doris Marguerite Shafer.
Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, United States
Byron Shafer received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 1968.
200 California Hall Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
Byron Shafer received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979.
Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, United States
Byron Shafer received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 1968.
200 California Hall Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
Byron Shafer received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979.
(This is the story of a revolution without fanfare, a hidd...)
This is the story of a revolution without fanfare, a hidden struggle for party reform that produced a new era in national politics. From this struggle emerged the greatest deliberately planned and centrally imposed change in the mechanics of delegate selection, and hence presidential nomination, in all of American history.
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1983
(Even today, when it is often viewed as an institution in ...)
Even today, when it is often viewed as an institution in decline, the national party convention retains a certain raw, emotional, populist fascination. "Bifurcated Politics" is a portrait of the postwar convention as a changing institution that still confirms the single most important decision in American politics.
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1988
(In The Two Majorities Byron Shafer and William Claggett o...)
In The Two Majorities Byron Shafer and William Claggett offer groundbreaking political analysis that resolves many of the seeming contradictions in the contemporary American political scene.
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1995
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For introductory American politics courses, this is a diverse collection of lively and provocative assessments of the evolution of American politics across the postwar period, focusing on these elements: parties, society, institutions, culture, issues, agendas and coalitions.
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1997
(Byron E. Shafer heads a distinguished team of expert comm...)
Byron E. Shafer heads a distinguished team of expert commentators who focus, in parallel chapters, on the dramatic dimensions of political change over the years 1946-1996.
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1998
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2003
(Until now, the critical shift in Southern political alleg...)
Until now, the critical shift in Southern political allegiance from Democratic to Republican has been explained, by scholars and journalists, as a white backlash to the civil rights revolution. In this myth-shattering book, Byron Shafer and Richard Johnston refute that view, one stretching all the way back to V. O. Key in his classic book Southern Politics. The true story is instead one of dramatic class reversal, beginning in the 1950s and pulling everything else in its wake.
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2006
(While pundits boil down elections to a stark choice betwe...)
While pundits boil down elections to a stark choice between Democrat and Republican, Byron Shafer and Richard Spady explore the further significance of not voting at all. Voters can and do form coalitions around specific issues, so that simple party identification does not determine voter turnout or ballot choices. Deploying a method that maps political attitudes from 1984 to 2008, the authors describe an electorate in flux.
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2014
Byron Edwin Shafer was born on January 8, 1947 in Hanover, Pennsylvania, United States; the son of Byron Henry Shafer and Doris Marguerite Shafer.
Byron Shafer received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 1968 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979.
Byron Shafer began his career as a Resident Scholar at Russell Sage Foundation in 1977. From 1984 to 1985, he held the position of an Associate Professor of Political Science at Florida State University. In 1985, Byron became a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government at the University of Oxford. For a year he served as an Acting Warden at Nuffield College.
In 2001 Shafer was appointed the Glenn B. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Chair of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin. He also served as a Faculty Affiliate at the La Follette School of Public Affairs and Distinguished Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute.
Byron co-authored the book, The American Political Landscape (2014), and has published major monographs on reform politics, such as Quiet Revolution: The Struggle for the Democratic Party and the Shaping of Post-Reform Politics, and related topics. He contributed to different periodicals, including Electoral Studies, Journal of Politics, International Political Science Review, Corruption and Reform, Public Interest and Journal of Law and Politics.
Currently, Byron is Hawkins Chair Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin.
(For introductory American politics courses, this is a div...)
1997(Until now, the critical shift in Southern political alleg...)
2006(In The Two Majorities Byron Shafer and William Claggett o...)
1995(While pundits boil down elections to a stark choice betwe...)
2014(Even today, when it is often viewed as an institution in ...)
1988(This is the story of a revolution without fanfare, a hidd...)
1983(Byron E. Shafer heads a distinguished team of expert comm...)
1998Byron Shafer has researched American politics. His particular interests include political parties, institutional reform, social cleavages, policy conflict, issue evolution, political orders, American political development, national party conventions, cultural issues, elections and voting, American exceptionalism, British politics, comparative politics of the G-7, empirical theory, classical political science and sociology of knowledge. He is concerned with the "big picture" in American political life and with the contextual effects of this larger framework.
Byron E. Shafer is a member of the American Political Science Association, American Historical Association, American Sociological Association, Organization of American Historians, National Conference of University Professors, Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, British Association for American Studies, Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Sigma Alpha.
Byron E. Shafer married Wanda Kathleen McErn on August 22, 1981. The couple has one son.
