Ada Finifter
{{short description|American political scientist}}
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| nationality = American
| fields = {{ubl|Political science}}
| workplaces = {{ubl|Andrés Bello Catholic University|Michigan State University}}
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| doctoral_advisor = J. Austin Ranney
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Ada Weintraub Finifter (June 6, 1938—October 29, 2011) was an American political scientist. She specialized in American public opinion and voting behavior.
Education and academic positions
Finifter was born in Brooklyn on June 6, 1938. Finifter graduated from Brooklyn College with a degree in political science in 1959, and then earned an MA at the University of Michigan.
Finifter then joined the political science faculty at Andrés Bello Catholic University as a member of the Peace Corps, working there for one year before returning to the United States and beginning a political science PhD at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. There she studied with J. Austin Ranney, obtaining her PhD in 1967. Finifter was hired as a political science professor at Michigan State University, becoming an associate professor in 1972 and a professor in 1981. In 1978, Finifter was a visiting scholar at the Australian National University.{{cite book |year=2002 |title=Directory of American Scholars |publisher=Gale}}
Research
Finifter wrote several books, one of the most notable being Alienation and the Social System (1972).{{cite journal |first=David |last=Glanz |title=Reviewed Work: Alienation and the Social System. by Ada Finifter |journal=Contemporary Sociology |volume=2 |issue=6 |date=November 1973 |pages=615–616 |doi=10.2307/2062459|jstor=2062459 }} She also wrote an early text on personal computer use, Using the IBM Personal Computer: EasyWriter (1984). She edited several books as well, including The State of the Discipline (1983).{{cite journal |first=James |last=Farr |title=Reviewed Works: Political Science: The State of the Discipline by Ada Finifter; Political Science: The Science of Politics by Herbert Weisberg |journal=Polity |volume=20 |issue=4 |year=1988 |pages=727–733 |doi=10.2307/3234905|jstor=3234905 |s2cid=146859134 }}
Finifter was the president of the Midwest Political Science Association in the year 1986–87.{{cite web |url=https://www.mpsanet.org/Governance/Past-MPSA-Officers |title=Past MPSA Officers |publisher=Midwest Political Science Association |year=2019 |access-date=18 March 2020}} She was the editor of the American Political Science Review from March 1996 until December 2001.{{cite journal |title=Ada Finifter to be APSR Editor |journal=American Political Science Review |volume=27 |issue=4 |date=December 1994 |pages=748 |doi=10.1017/S1049096500042049|doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |first=Ada |last=Finifter |title=Editor's Report |journal=American Political Science Review |volume=33 |issue=4 |date=December 2000 |pages=921–928 |doi=10.1017/S1049096500062417|doi-access=free }}
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Category:Writers from Brooklyn
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Category:American women political scientists
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