Gerald M. Pomper
{{Short description|American political scientist}}
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}}Gerald M. Pomper is an American political scientist and specialist in American elections and politics.{{Cite web|last=Pomper|first=Gerald|title=The Cleaner "Smoke-Filled Room" – Sabato's Crystal Ball|url=https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/the-cleaner-smoke-filled-room/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220211/https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/the-cleaner-smoke-filled-room/ |archive-date=2022-02-11 |url-status=live|access-date=2022-02-11|language=en-US}}{{cbignore}} Pomper is the Board of Governors Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Eagleton Institute of Politics of Rutgers University.{{Cite web|last=Pomper|first=Gerald|title=Pomper, Gerald|url=https://polisci.rutgers.edu/people/department-directory/details/1638-geraldpomper |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220211/https://polisci.rutgers.edu/people/department-directory/details/1638-geraldpomper |archive-date=2022-02-11 |url-status=live|access-date=2022-02-11|website=polisci.rutgers.edu|language=en-gb}}{{cbignore}}
Biography
Pomper was born in the Bronx in 1935 to Jewish immigrants from Poland.{{Cite web|last=Rizzi|first=Kathryn|title=Pomper, Gerald|url=https://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/alphabetical-index/interviewees/2035-pomper-gerald |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220211/https://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/alphabetical-index/interviewees/2035-pomper-gerald |archive-date=2022-02-11 |url-status=live|access-date=2022-02-11|website=oralhistory.rutgers.edu|language=en-gb}}{{cbignore}} He grew up in Manhattan and graduated from Stuyvesant High School.{{Cite web|last=Rizzi|first=Kathryn|title=Pomper, Gerald Part 1|url=https://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/alphabetical-index/interviewees/64-text-html/2034-pomper-gerald-part-1 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220211/https://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/alphabetical-index/interviewees/64-text-html/2034-pomper-gerald-part-1 |archive-date=2022-02-11 |url-status=live|access-date=2022-02-11|website=oralhistory.rutgers.edu|language=en-gb}}{{cbignore}} He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1955 on a Ford Foundation scholarship, majoring in political science and serving as managing editor of Columbia Daily Spectator.{{Cite web|title=Bookshelf {{!}} Columbia College Today|url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/may_jun10/bookshelf|access-date=2022-02-11|website=www.college.columbia.edu}} He then received his Ph.D. from Princeton University.
He began his academic career at the City College of New York, before moving to Rutgers University and served as the founding chair of the political science department of Livingston College. He was a Fulbright scholar in 1971–72, teaching at Tel Aviv University.{{Cite web|title=Gerald Pomper {{!}} Fulbright Scholar Program|url=https://cies.org/grantee/gerald-pomper|access-date=2022-02-11|website=cies.org}}
Pomper has been described as a leading authority in the field of election studies and was called the "Dean of American Political Science" by political historian Allan Lichtman.{{Cite book|last=Pomper|first=Gerald M.|url=https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/32217|title=Passions and Interests: Political Party Concepts of American Democracy|date=1992-11-04|publisher=University Press of Kansas|language=en}}{{Cite news|last=Saxon|first=Wolfgang|date=2005-04-11|title=Wilson McWilliams, 71, Dies; Wrote About Political Trends|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/nyregion/wilson-mcwilliams-71-dies-wrote-about-political-trends.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529181608/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/nyregion/wilson-mcwilliams-71-dies-wrote-about-political-trends.html |archive-date=2015-05-29 |url-status=live|access-date=2022-02-11|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web|date=2012-10-17|title=After the Dust Has Settled: Political Scientist Gerald Pomper to Discuss Meanings of 2012 Elections at Nov. 16 Program|url=https://patch.com/new-jersey/princeton/an--after-the-dust-has-settled-political-scientist-gef3023e05be |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220211/https://patch.com/new-jersey/princeton/an--after-the-dust-has-settled-political-scientist-gef3023e05be |archive-date=2022-02-11 |url-status=live|access-date=2022-02-11|website=Princeton, NJ Patch|language=en}}{{cbignore}}
References
External links
- {{C-SPAN|41925}}
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