Ada Finifter

Ada W. Finifter
Born	(1938-06-06)June 6, 1938[1]
Died	October 29, 2011(2011-10-29) (aged 73)[1]
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Brooklyn College University of Michigan University of Wisconsin, Madison
Scientific career
Fields	Political science
Institutions	Andrés Bello Catholic University Michigan State University
Doctoral advisor	J. Austin Ranney[1]

Ada Weintraub Finifter (June 6, 1938—October 29, 2011) was an American political scientist. She specialized in American public opinion and voting behavior.

Education and academic positions

Finifter was born in Brooklyn on June 6, 1938.^[1] Finifter graduated from Brooklyn College with a degree in political science in 1959, and then earned an MA at the University of Michigan.^[1]

Finifter then joined the political science faculty at Andrés Bello Catholic University as a member of the Peace Corps, working there for one year before returning to the United States and beginning a political science PhD at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. There she studied with J. Austin Ranney, obtaining her PhD in 1967.^[1] Finifter was hired as a political science professor at Michigan State University, becoming an Associate Professor in 1972 and a Professor in 1981.^[1] In 1978, Finifter was a visiting scholar at the Australian National University.^[2]

Research

Finifter wrote several books, one of the most notable^[1] being Alienation and the Social System (1972).^[3] She also wrote an early text on personal computer use, Using the IBM Personal Computer: EasyWriter (1984). She edited several books as well, including The State of the Discipline (1983).^[4]

Finifter was the president of the Midwest Political Science Association in the year 1986–87.^[5] She was the editor of the American Political Science Review from March 1996 until December 2001.^[6][7]

References

1. Abramson, Paul R. (2011). "Ada Finifter". Michigan State University. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
2. Directory of American Scholars. Gale. 2002.
3. Glanz, David (November 1973). "Reviewed Work: Alienation and the Social System. by Ada Finifter". Contemporary Sociology. 2 (6): 615–616. doi:10.2307/2062459. JSTOR 2062459.
4. Farr, James (1988). "Reviewed Works: Political Science: The State of the Discipline by Ada Finifter; Political Science: The Science of Politics by Herbert Weisberg". Polity. 20 (4): 727–733. doi:10.2307/3234905. JSTOR 3234905. S2CID 146859134.
5. "Past MPSA Officers". Midwest Political Science Association. 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
6. "Ada Finifter to be APSR Editor". American Political Science Review. 27 (4): 748. December 1994. doi:10.1017/S1049096500042049.
7. Finifter, Ada (December 2000). "Editor's Report". American Political Science Review. 33 (4): 921–928. doi:10.1017/S1049096500062417.