GERALD POMPER, Board of Governors Professor (Emeritus) of Political Science, shares his appointment with the Eagleton Institute of Politics. Educated at Columbia and Princeton, Professor Pomper has been a visiting or Fulbright professor at Australian National University, Nuffield College of Oxford University and Tel-Aviv University, and was the first Tip O'Neill Professor at Northeastern University. A previous president of the APSA Section on Political Parties, he is the winner of the Section's awards for career achievement and for an article of continuing scholarly significance. He has been involved in many efforts to improve education, as a member and president of his local school board, director of summer institutes for public school teachers, and chair of a major Rutgers committee on undergraduate education. His most recent book is Ordinary Heroes and American Democracy, published by Yale University Press in 2004, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, with a paperback edition coming in 2007 from Paradigm Publishers. His other publications include:

Negative Campaigning (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), co-authored with Richard Lau; The Future of American Democratic Politics (Rutgers University Press, 2003), co-edited with Marc Weiner; The Election of 2000 (Chatham House, 2001); Passions and Interests: Political Party Concepts of American Democracy (University Press of Kansas, 1992); Teaching the Constitution (U.S. Constitution Bicentennial Commission, 1991); Voters, Elections and Parties: The Practice of Democratic Theory (Transaction, 1988, 1991), and "Jewish Party Politicians," a chapter co-authored with his son in Jews and American Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001).