Paul R. Abramson

Paul R. Abramson is a Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University.

Abramson joined the Michigan State University faculty in 1967 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1971 and to Professor in 1977. In 1987-88 he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and from October 1994 through January 1995 he was a Lady Davis Professor in the Department of Political Science at The Hebrew University.

Abramson received his B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1959, where he graduated as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He attended the University of California at Berkeley as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in 1959-60. From the fall of 1960 until the fall of 1962 he served as a Lieutenant in the United States Army, and was promoted to Captain in the U.S. Army Reserves in 1966. He earned an M.A. in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1961 and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1967.

Abramson is author of Generational Change in American Politics (1975), The Political Socialization of Black Americans (1977), Political Attitudes in America (1983), and Politics in the Bible (2012). He is coauthor (with Ronald Inglehart, University of Michigan) of Value Change in Global Perspective (1995) and of a series of sixteen books (with John H. Aldrich, Duke University, and David W. Rohde, Duke University) on presidential and congressional elections, the most recent of which is Change and Continuity in the 2008 and 2010 Elections (2012). He is the author or coauthor of more than seventy journal articles, including sixteen in the American Political Science Review.

Abramson is currently studying changes in the party systems of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, and Israel. Along with Aldrich, Rohde, and Brad T. Gomez (Florida State University), he is planning a book about the 2012 U.S. presidential and congressional elections.

Subfields

American Politics, Comparative Politics, Political Thought

Research Specializations

Political Behavior, Elections, Political Culture

Recent Publications

Paul R. Abramson, Politics in the Bible (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2012).
Paul R. Abramson, John H. Aldrich, and David W. Rohde, Change and
Continuity in the 2008 and 2010 Elections (Washington, DC: CQ Press,
2012).
Paul R. Abramson, John H. Aldrich, and David W. Rohde, Change and
Continuity in the 2008 Elections (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2010).
Paul R. Abramson, John H. Aldrich, and David W. Rohde, Change and
Continuity in the 2004 and 2006 Elections (Washington, DC: CQ Press,
2007).
Paul R. Abramson, John H. Aldrich, and David W. Rohde, Change and
Continuity in the 2004 Elections (Washington DC: CQ Press, 2006).

Paul R. Abramson as Editor-in-Chief of Student Life, student newspaper of Washington University, St. Louis, MO.

Paul R. Abramson at Washington University, St. Louis, MO.

Paul R. Abramson as a First Lieutenant.

From left to right, Paul R. Abramson, John H. Aldrich, and David W. Rohde.

From left to right, David W. Rohde, John H. Aldrich, and Paul R. Abramson.

Paul R. Abramson standing in front of a statue of the Marquis de Condorcet.

Paul R. Abramson in the Judean hills near Jerusalem.

Paul R. Abramson and Janet C. Abramson at Eilat.

Paul R. Abramson, Lee J. Abramson, and Heather L. Abramson at Eilat.

Paul R. Abramson at the Burning Bush, Santa Katarina Monastery, Sinai.

Paul R. Abramson at Luxor, Egypt.

From left to right: Hanna Diskin, Abraham Diskin, and Paul R. Abramson.

Paul R. Abramson at the grave of Oskar Schindler, Mount Zion Catholic Cemetery, Jerusalem.

Paul R. Abramson in South Jerusalem.

Janet C. Abramson in South Jerusalem.