Brian F. Schaffner

I am the Newhouse Professor of Civic Studies in the Department of Political Science and Tisch College at Tufts University. My research focuses on public opinion, campaigns and elections, political parties, and race and prejudice in American politics. I direct the Tufts Public Opinion Lab and co-lead the Cooperative Election Study.

I am co-author of books on local politics, campaign finance, and political polarization during the Trump era (see Books). My work has been published in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, and other leading journals.

I write regularly for Good Authority (the successor to The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage). See my recent posts and other public-facing writing.

Current Roles

• Co-Principal Investigator, Cooperative Election Study, 2010–
• Director, Tufts Public Opinion Lab
• Reviewing Editor, PNAS Nexus, 2022–
• Advisory Board, British Election Study, 2021–
• Faculty Associate, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, 2011–

Find Me Elsewhere

• Good Authority: my posts
• Google Scholar: scholar.google.com/citations?user=s13IQeUAAAAJ
• ORCID: 0000-0003-1953-2464
• Bluesky: @bfschaffner.bsky.social
• GitHub: @bfschaffner
• LinkedIn: brian-schaffner
• Wikipedia: Brian Schaffner
• Tufts faculty page: Department of Political Science

Contact

• Email: brian.schaffner@tufts.edu
• Office: Packard Hall, Tufts University
• Mail: Department of Political Science, Tufts University, Packard Hall, Medford, MA 02155