Norman Nie and Saar Golde < Back to Writers
Norman H. Nie is a research professor in Stanford University's Department of Political Science and the director of the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society. Nie is professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he served as department chair and a senior study director at the National Opinion Research Center. He is co-author of Education and Democratic Citizenship in America (1997) and The Changing American Voter (1976), both winners of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, an annual prize for the best book published on government, politics or international affairs. In addition to his many academic pursuits, Nie is a co-founder of SPSS, a statistical and survey software company, and a co-founder and chairman of the board of Knowledge Networks, an Internet-based survey provider.
Saar D. Golde is a research fellow at the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society and Ph.D. candidate in the Economics Departmment at Stanford University. He also serves as the resident economist for Gaia Online, an Internet social site for teens and young adults.
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