Daron Shaw

About

Daron R. Shaw is Distinguished Teaching Professor and Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Chair of State Politics at the University of Texas at Austin. He specializes in American government, campaigns, and elections, political parties, public opinion and voting behavior, and applied survey research. He is author of The Race to 270: The Electoral College and Campaign Strategies of 2000 and 2004 (University of Chicago Press) and coauthor of Unconventional Wisdom: Facts and Myths about American Voters, The Turnout Myth: Voting Rates and Partisan Outcomes in American National Elections, The Appearance of Corruption: Testing the Supreme Court's Assumptions about Campaign Finance Reform, and Battleground: Electoral College Strategies, Execution and Impact in the Modern Era (all from Oxford University Press). His research has been published in American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, Political Behavior, Political Communication, PS: Political Science, Party Politics, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and other journals. Shaw served as a strategist in the 1992, 2000, and 2004 presidential election campaigns. He is currently codirector of the Fox News Poll and the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll; director of the Texas Lyceum Poll; and principal investigator for the 2024 American National Election Study. He is also a member of the decision team for Fox News, the advisory board for the MIT Election Data & Science Lab, and the advisory board for the Annette Strauss Institute. Formerly, he served as President George W. Bush’s representative on the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and as one of the academic directors for President Barack Obama’s Commission for Election Administration.