Byron Shafer lecture at FIU on postwar American politics

The Three Worlds Postwar American Politics: Lecture by Byron E. Shafer, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Byron E. Shafer is the Glenn B. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Chair of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research and teaching center on American Politics, broadly construed. Dr. Shafer's interests include: political parties, institutional reform, social cleavages, policy onflict, issue evolution, political orders, American political development, national party conventions, cultural issues electoral campaigns, American exceptionalism, British politics, comparative politics of the G-7, empirical theory, classical political science, and sociology of knowledge. Dr. Shafer earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.