Martin Allen Shefter (1943 – November 3, 2023) was an American political scientist and author who was a professor emeritus in the Department of Government at Cornell University.
His doctoral dissertation examined "City Hall and State House: State Legislative Involvement in the Politics of New York City and Boston."
Shefter taught political science at Harvard, Cornell, and the University of Chicago, before returning to Cornell University in 1986.
From 1995, Shefter was a member of the executive committee of the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association and served as president of the section for 1996–97.
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