Public opinion in the United States of America on the Vietnam War

Sidney Verba, Universidad de Harvard, EEUU.

Librarian and doctor in Political Science, specializing in American and comparative politics. He is Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, where he was professor Carl H. Pforzheimer, and library director from 1984 until his retirement in 2007.
He is coauthor of The Civic Culture:

The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations (1963) y The Private Roots of Public Action: Gender, Equality and Political Participation (2001), así como autor de Small Groups and Political Behavior: A Study of Leadership (1961).

He was president of the American Political Science Association, and in 2002 he was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize, for his distinguished contribution to political science.

Gordon Black, Universidad de Stanford, EEUU.

Doctor in Political Science from Stanford University. He currently serves as President and CEO of the company Harris Interactive, Inc. founded his predecessor, Gordon S. Black Corporation in 1975, while a professor at the University of Rochester in New York.
Dr. Black has spent 35 years managing national and international studies for corporate clients and media companies. From 1986-1993, he served as director of "Partnertship for a Drug Free America".
He has authored or co-authored more than 20 journal articles, covering a wide range of topics in survey research. Since 1995, he has occupied much of his time lecturing on the uses of Internet marketing and social research.

Richard A. Brody, Universidad de Northswestern.

Professor emeritus at Northwestern University. Now part of the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. His research interests are the public, the media, public perception and American politics.
He was president of the Western Political Association. He has co-authored and co-editor of several books, including Simulation in International Relations (1963) and author of Assessing the President: The Media, Elite Opinion and Public Support (1991).
He has also authored and co-authored articles in professional journals, including The Mass Media and Presidential Popularity (1977) and Crisis, War, and Public Opinion: The Media and Public Support for the President (1994). brody@stanford.edu

Paul Ekman, Universidad de Adelphi.

Clinical psychologist at Adelphi University. He is currently the manager of Paul Ekman Group, LLC (PEG), a company that produces training devices concerning emotional skills, and is initiating new research on strengthening national security and law. From 1960-2004 he worked at the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute.
He began his research on facial expression and body movement in 1954. A socio-psychological and cultural comparison emphasis has characterized his work, with an interest in a framework of evolutionary and semiotic reference. Ekman is coauthor of Emotion in the Human Face (1971); coeditor of Approaches to Emotion (1984) and author of Face of Man (1980) and Telling Lies (1985).
He has published over one hundred articles. He has appeared on television programs such as 48 Hours, Dateline, Good Morning America, 20/20, Larry King, Oprah, and Johnny Carson. It was named by TIME review as one of the most influential people of 2009.

Norman H. Nie, Universidad de Stanford, EEUU.

Doctor from Stanford University. He is professor emeritus of the Department of Political Science at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society. He has been president and CEO of the company SPSS, Inc.
Among his major publications include Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (1970), Education and Democratic Citizenship in America (1996) and The Hard Count: The Political and Social Challenges of Census Mobilization (2006).
He is the author of over 20 articles, including "The impact of Internet use on sociability: time-diary findings" (2002) and "The Relationship Between Education and Ability: A Tale of Two Theories" (2006).
In 2001 he received the American Association of Public Opinion Research Innovators Award, and in 2006 the Life Time Achievement Award from the American Association of Public Opinion Research. nhnie@stanford.edu

Edwin B. Parker, Universidad de Stanford, EEUU.

Doctor from Stanford University. He co-founded the Equatorial company and currently is president of Parker Telecommunications. From 1962-1979 he was Professor of Communication at Stanford University, where he specialized in economic and social impact of information technology. He taught at the University of Illinois from 1960-1962.
He has co-authored and co-editor of five books and over 75 professional articles. Among his publications are Rural America in the Information Age: Telecommunications Policy for Rural Development (1989) and Electronic Byways: State Policies for Rural Development through Telecommunications (1995).
He is a member of the Oregon Telecommunications Coordinating Council, and in 2006 was named "Man of the Year" in Lincoln City, in recognition of his contributions to local telecommunications and economic development.

Nelson W. Polsby, Universidad de Yale, EEUU.

Doctor from Yale University and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkley. He is currently chairman of the Political Studies Association of the UK and is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC
He was founding editor of the Annual Review of Political Science; editor of Political Science International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, and currently serves on the editorial board of five academic journals.
Among his major books are: Handbook of Political Science (1975), Community Power and Political Theory (1980) and Presidential Elections (2004).
He has authored more than 100 articles, including: "Three Problems in the Analysis of Community Power" (1959), "Contemporary Transformations of American Politics: Thoughts on the Research Agendas of Political Scientists" (1981) and "Constitutional Angst: does American Democracy Work? "(1996).
He has won the Wilbur Cross Medal and the Yale Medal. Is honorary doctorate from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan. nwpolsby@berkeley.edu

Peter H. Rossi, Universidad de Columbia, EEUU.

Doctor in Sociology from Columbia University. He taught at Harvard, and later joined the University of Chicago, where he directed the National Opinion Research Center. He also taught at Johns Hopkins University, and joined the University of Massachusetts in 1974, where he was professor emeritus and director of the Social and Demographic Research Institute.
He was president of the American Sociological Association in 1980. His research focused on testing the effectiveness of social programs in various areas, including poverty, hunger and prison reform.
Although he was in favor of social policies that helped the disadvantaged, the study sought to determine objectively whether these programs actually worked.
Among his publications are The Education of Catholic Americans (1966) and Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness (1989).
Peter H. Rossi died on October 7, 2006, at 84 years old, at his home in Amherst, Massachusettes.

Paul Sheatsley, Universidad de Princeton, EEUU.

He studied and was director of research and public opinion polling at the University of Princeton. He was director of the team's field Audience Research Institute in 1940-1942, and founding member of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.
He led the New York office of the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago from 1942 to 1961, when he moved to Chicago to direct the Survey Research Service. In 1982, the American Association for Public Opinion Research Exceptionally awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award for his contributions to the field.
After his retirement in 1986, he continued as a consultant. He wrote numerous books and articles on public opinion polls. He died in 1989 at 72 years old, in Chicago, Illinois.
His latest contribution, a history of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, was published posthumously in 1992.