Quantitative analysis of social change prompted by information technologies and educational attainment.

Quantitative Methods and American Politics

Director, Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society

Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book published in Political Science during 1996 for the book Education and Democratic Citizenship in America.

Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book published in political science during 1976 for the book The Changing American Voter.

Gladys M. Kammerer Award from the American Political Science Association for the best publication of 1972 in the field of United States Public Policy for the book Participation in America.

Runner-Up, Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, for the best book in political science published during 1972 for the book Participation in America.

Fulbright Fellow University of Leiden, the Netherlands 1991-92

Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Stanford University, 1964-1965.

Political Science Books

Education and Democratic Citizenship in America, with Jane Junn and Ken Stehlik-Barry.  University of Chicago Press, 1996.
 
Participation and Political Equality:  A Cross-National Comparison with Sidney Verba and Jae-On Kim.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.    
  
The Changing American Voter , with Sidney Verba and John R. Petrocik.  Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 1976.

Participation in America:  Political Democracy and Social Equality , with Sidney Verba. New York: Harper and Row, 1972, enlarged edition 1980.

The Modes of Democratic Participation:  A Cross-National Comparison , with Sidney Verba and Jae-On Kim.  Comparative Political Series N. 02-013, Vol. 2, Beverly Hills:  Sage Publication, 1971.

The Information Utility and Social Change , with Harold Sackman and contributors, Nie Co-editor.  New York: AFIPS Press, 1970.

Statistical Books

SCSS:  A Guide to the SCSS Conversational Systemwith Hadlai Hull.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980.

Statistical Package for the Social Sciences , Nie et al. New York:  McGraw-Hill. Eds 1 & 2 1970, 1975.  (Over 300,000 English Language copies sold)

SPSS Primer , with C. Hadlai Hull and William R.  Klecka.  New York:  McGraw-Hill, 1975.

Articles and Chapters

"Public Opinion Polling: A Beneficial Extension of Popular Consultation or a Menacing New Tool of State Control?" in Allan McCutcheon editor, Public Opinion, Democracy, and Democratization   Lincoln Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, (Forthcoming).

"Political Participation" in Handbook of Science , Fred Greenstein and Nelson Polsby, eds., (Philippines:  Addison-Wesley), 1975.  Vol.4:1-74.  With Sidney Verba.

"Political Attitudes Among American Ethnics: A Study of Perceptual Distortion," in Andrew M. Greeley, Ethnicity in the United States:  A Preliminary Reconnaissance,   New York:  John Wiley and Sons, Wiley Interscience, 1974, 186-216. With Barbara Currie.

"Future Developments in Mass Communication and Citizen Participation" in Sackman and Nie, eds., The Information Utility and Social Change (cited above under "Books"), 1970. (Also in Albert Somit, ed., Political Science and the Study of the Future , Hinsdale, IL:  Dryden Press, 1974).

"Citizen Activity: Who Participates? What Do They Say?", with Sidney Verba, Kay Schlozman and Henry Brady, American Political Science Review , June, 1993.

"Race, Ethnicity and Political Resources", with Sidney Verba, Kay Schlozman and Henry Brady, British Journal of Political Science , November, 1993.

"Revisiting Mass Belief Systems Revisited: or, Doing Research is Like Watching a Tennis Match," with James N. Rabjohn.  American Journal of Political Science , 1979.
                      
"Comment:  Review of Manuals for BMDP and SPSS" with J. B. Fry, J. G. Jenkins and M. J. Norusis Journal of American Statistical Association, March 1978, 73 (361), 65-98.    

"A Note on Factor analyzing Dichotomous Variables:  The Case of Political Participation," with Jae-on Kim and Sidney Verba. Political Methodology , 4 (2), 1977

"Mass Belief Systems Revisited:  Political Change and Attitude Structure."  Journal of Politics, 36, August, 1974:  540-591.  (Also reprinted in Niemi and Weisberg, Controversies in American Voting Behavior, San Francisco, W. H. Freeman & Co., 1976; and in Dreyer and Rosenbaum, Political Opinion and Behavior , Mass:  Duxbury Press,  1976.)

"The Amount and Concentration of Political Participation," with Sidney Verba and Jae-on Kim.  Political Methodology 1 (2) Spring 1974, 105-132.

"Political Participation and the Life Cycle in Comparative Perspective," with Sidney Verba and Jae-On Kim.  Comparative Politics , April 1974, 319-340.

"Modes of Democratic Participation: Continuities in Research," with Sidney Verba, et al.  Comparative Political Studies , 6 (2), July 1973:  235-250.

"The Computer and the Development of the Empirical Social Science," International Journal of Social Science Information , 12 (6) Winter 1973, 173-186.
                    
"Election Studies of the Survey Research Center," with Kenneth Prewitt.  Journal of American Statistical Association   I, Part IV, 1971.

"Social Structure and Political Participation: Developmental  Relations, Parts I, II," with G. Bingham Powell and Kenneth Prewitt.  American Political Science Review  LXIII (2-3), 1969.  

"Public Opinion and the War in Vietnam," with Sidney Verba, et  al. American Political Science Review , LXI (2), 1969.

Recent Papers and Talks

"Public Opinion Polling: A Beneficial Extension of Popular Consultation or a Menacing New Tool of State Control?" Conference On Public Opinion, Democracy and Democratization, University of Nebraska and The Gallup Organization, Lincoln NE, April 1997
   
Education and Social Outcomes: The Additive Benefits versus the Sorting Machine, Institute for Policy Research Johns Hopkins University, March, 1997

"The Changing Shape of Democratic Citizenship: Trends in Autonomy and Enlightenment," with Jane Junn and Kenneth Stehlik-Barry, paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 1994.

"Education and Democratic Citizenship," with Jane Junn and Kenneth Stehlik-Barry, paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 1993.

"Race Ethnicity and Resources for Participation," with Sidney Verba, Kay L. Schlozman, Henry Brady.  A paper presented at a conference on race and participation at Harvard University, June 1992.

"Model vs. Data Driven Science:  A Corrective Prescription for the Evolution of Social Sciences" with Christopher Ross, presented at the Social Science Research Institute Northern Illinois University Distinguished Lectures in the Social Sciences, 1991.

"Resources and Political Participation," with Sidney Verba, Kay L. Schlozman and Henry Brady.  Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, August-September,  1991.

"Model vs. Data Driven Science and the Role of the ICPSR in the Progress of the Social Sciences", presented at Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, Ann Arbor, Michigan, November 11, 1989.

"Participation in America: Continuity and Change," with Sidney Verba, Henry Brady, Kay Schlozman and Jane Junn.  Presented at Midwest Political Science Association, April 1988.