Boris Shor
Cohort 18 — Berkeley/UCSF
Scholar, RWJF Scholars in Health Policy Research Program
University of California, Berkeley/UCSF, Berkeley CA
Dr. Shor holds a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University and is currently on leave from the University of Chicago, where he is an assistant professor at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies. His research focuses on ideology and political parties in American legislatures. One current project focuses on how well state legislatures and congressional delegations represent the ideological preferences of citizens at the micro and macro levels. Another seeks to find the roots of political polarization at the state level, as well as its policy consequences. He is interested in explaining the voting behavior of individual state legislators in health policy, and collectively, the vastly different choice states make.
Discipline: Political Science
Research Interests: American Politics (includes: American political thought, and Federalism), Institutions, Organizations, and Agendas (includes political parties), Legislative Politics, State and Local politics
Health Policy Interests: Federal Health Care Policy and Politics - Congress and federal laws, Health Care Reform Initiatives and Policies - Federal, Health Care Reform Initiatives and Policies - State, Federal Health Care Policy and Politics, Health Care Reform Initiatives and Policies, State Health Policy (includes: State health policy making process and State policy variation)
