Background
Samuel L. Popkin was born on June 9, 1942, in Superior, Wisconsin, United States. He is the son of Arnold and Ann (Cohen) Popkin.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Yale University
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Harvard University
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University of Texas
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University of California—San Diego
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Popkin develops a model of rational peasant behavior and shows how village procedures result from the self-interested interactions of peasants.
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1979
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The Reasoning Voter is an insider's look at campaigns, candidates, media, and voters that convincingly argues that voters make informed logical choices.
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1991
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The Reasoning Voter is an insider's look at campaigns, candidates, media, and voters that convincingly argues that voters make informed logical choices. Samuel L. Popkin analyzes three primary campaigns—Carter in 1976; Bush and Reagan in 1980; and Hart, Mondale, and Jackson in 1984—to arrive at a new model of the way voters sort through commercials and sound bites to choose a candidate.
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1994
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While plenty of political insiders have written about specific campaigns, only Popkin--drawing on a lifetime of presidential campaign experience and extensive research--analyzes what it takes to win the next campaign.
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2013
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Samuel L. Popkin was born on June 9, 1942, in Superior, Wisconsin, United States. He is the son of Arnold and Ann (Cohen) Popkin.
Popkin graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 1963 and received his doctorate from it in 1968.
Popkin started his career as a project director for urban analysis and Vietnam studies at Simulatics Corporation in 1965. He worked there for two years and then went to Yale University as a lecturer till 1968. That year he became an associate professor at Harvard University, Cambridge, position he held for five years. After a brief period of working at the University of Texas, Popkin started his long journey as a professor of political science at the University of California—San Diego.
Currently, Popkin is retired and holds the position of professor emeritus at the university.
During his career, Popkin has also been a consulting analyst in presidential campaigns, serving as a consultant on Bill Clinton's presidential campaign on polling and strategy, to the CBS News election units from 1983 to 1990 on survey design and analysis, and more recently to the Gore campaign. He has also served as a consultant to political parties in Canada and Europe and to the Departments of State and Defense. His current research focuses on presidential campaigns and the relationship of public opinion to foreign policy.
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1991(Popkin develops a model of rational peasant behavior and ...)
1979Popkin is a member of the American Political Science Association.
Popkin is married to Susan Shirk, Professor of Political Science at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. The couple has no children.