Daron Shaw

About

Daron Shaw is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. Shaw received his BA and PhD degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in the fall of 1994. His most recent book is Unconventional Wisdom (Oxford University Press), which empirically reconsiders such electoral phenomena as popular perceptions of turnout, swing voting, the gender gap, and youth voting. His previous book, The Race to 270 (Chicago University Press), analyzes the effects of TV advertising and candidate visits on the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. Professor Shaw has also published articles on public opinion and voting, election campaigns, and other topics in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Communication, British Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, Political Research Quarterly, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly, PS: Political Science, Party Politics, Electoral Studies, and American Politics Research.