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GERALD POMPER
Board of Governors
Professor of Political Science, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers
University (Emeritus)
web site: www.rci.rutgers.edu/~gpomper
Gerald Pomper is
a specialist in American elections and politics. He is the author or
editor of twenty books,
including Passions and Interests, Elections in America,
and Voters’ Choice.
In 2001, he published The Election of 2000, the seventh, millennium
volume in a 24-year series on U.S. national elections.
After his formal retirement that year, he was interim director of the
Walt Whitman Center at Rutgers, where he conducted a year-long symposium
on "The Future of American Democratic Politics" among distinguished
scholars from major universities in the United States. That symposium
was published in 2003 by Rutgers University Press. He is now involved
in an Eagleton project to improve campaign discourse, and, with Richard
Lau, in research on U.S. Senate elections, which has resulted in the
recent publication of Negative Campaigning by Rowman and Littlefield.
Dr. Pomper's most recent work is Ordinary Heroes and American Democracy.
The book examines eight individuals, each representing a major institution
of American government and politics, who made major contributions to
the nation. Published in 2004 by Yale University Press, the book was
nominated that year for a Pulitizer Prize. One early reviewer comments: “Pomper’s
inspiring book provokes us to think about how American democracy and
American political institutions foster the heroism of ordinary people.”
Educated at Columbia and Princeton, Dr. Pomper also has been a Fulbright
or visiting professor at Tel-Aviv University, Oxford, and Australian
National University, and held the first Tip O'Neill Chair in Public Life
at Northeastern University. He has been honored for career achievement
by the American Political Science Association and has served as an expert
witness on campaign finance, reapportionment, and political party regulation.
At Rutgers for forty years, he was chairman of the University and Livingston
College political science departments for nine years, and chaired a select
committee that proposed major changes in undergraduate education on the
New Brunswick campus.
His civic activities include eight years on his local board of education,
membership on his local zoning board, current membership on the borough's
Redevelopment Authority, summer institutes for high school teachers,
evaluations for New Jersey's former department of higher education, and
service as chair of the Free Speech committee of the American Civil Liberties
Union.
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