Morris P. Fiorina
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Morris P. Fiorina is an American political scientist and co-author of the book Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America with Jeremy C. Pope (Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
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), and with the help of the research assistant Samuel J Abrams.

Biography

Fiorina received his B.A. from Allegheny College
Allegheny College
Allegheny College is a private liberal arts college located in northwestern Pennsylvania in the town of Meadville. Founded in 1815, the college has about 2,100 undergraduate students.-Early history:...

, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. He currently serves as the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
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 and is a senior fellow at Stanford University
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's Hoover Institution
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. He was formerly the Thompson Professor of Government at Harvard University
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 and has taught at the California Institute of Technology
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. He resides in Portola Valley.

Forthcoming is Fiorina's new book, The Great Disconnect in American Politics, an elaboration on his 2005 Rothbaum Lectures.

Notable works

  • Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America
  • Congress: Keystone of the Washington Establishment
  • Divided Government
  • America's New Democracy
  • Personal Vote
  • Retrospective Voting in American National Elections

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