Robert Y. Shapiro is an American political scientist specializing in public opinion polling and statistical methods.
He is the chair of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University, president of the Academy of Political Science, editor of the Political Science Quarterly, and a former acting director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia.
[4] After receiving his doctorate, he worked at the NORC at the University of Chicago for several years before joining Columbia's faculty in 1982.
In 2005, Shapiro joined the Council on Foreign Relations as a visiting fellow to study American attitudes toward foreign policy and the social and political attitudes of soldiers and officers in the U.S.
[5] He also served as the acting director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia from 2008 to 2009.