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Institutional
Affiliations
American Enterprise Institute: Resident fellow (1)
Atlantic Monthly: Contributing editor (1)
Los Angeles Times: Contributing editor (1)
National Journal: Contributing editor (1)
Brandeis University: Visiting Professor (2002) (1)
Boston College: Visiting Professor of American Politics (1990-95) (1)
Council on Foreign Relations: International affairs fellow (1979-1980) (1)
Hoover Institution: Senior research fellow (1977-79)
Harvard University: Associate professor of government (1972-79) (1)
Education
Harvard University: Ph.D., political science (1)
Brandeis University: B.A. (1)
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Highlights
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Variously described as "one of the country's leading political commentators" (CNN), "the nation's election-miester" (Washington Times), and "the Aristotle of American politics" (Boston Globe), William Schneider, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, has been a consistent media presence since the 1980s. (2)
In a 1997 report on the efficacy of the right-wing's media campaign, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy cited Schneider as a case in point: "As journalist Lawrence Solely observed in 1990, think tanks have created their own 'research' journals to help mask 'the academic anemia' of their own researchers. Noting that these 'journals bear names that closely resemble those of legitimate joumals,' Soley states that they have produced what appears to be impressive credentials for their policy staff. At the time that Soley wrote, AEI's William Schneider, for example, had published 16 articles in the Institute's Public Opinion, but not a single article in Public Opinion Quarterly, a respected journal of social science published since 1937. Yet, Soley states, Schneider became one of the most 'sought-after' political pundits, appearing 72 times on network news programs between 1987 and 1989. He also served as a regular political commentator for National Public Radio's 'Morning Edition' during the same time period." (3)
In a recent article for the National Journal, Schneider opined that Arnold Schwarzenegger "carried 56 percent of the voters who said personal qualities were more important than issues in deciding their vote. What personal qualities? Focus, determination, discipline--the same qualities that create a successful bodybuilder or enable a poor immigrant to make it big in America. Those are leadership qualities that voters found missing in Davis. Schwarzenegger's election is a signal: Times are tough; voters want change; outsiders are in. That may be why two Washington outsiders in the Democratic presidential race are attracting the most interest. A former governor of Vermont and a retired general with no electoral experience. Davis and Bush are in different parties, but what Davis was selling is what Bush will be selling next year--continuity. Schwarzenegger's message of change could be just as much a threat to Bush as it was to Davis." (4)
Schneider is coauthor (with Seymour Martin Lipset) of The Confidence Gap: Business, Labor, and Government in the Public Mind (1987). (5)
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