| Paul R. Abramson | |
| Birth Name: | Paul Robert Abramson |
| Birth Date: | 28 November 1937 |
| Birth Place: | St. Louis, Missouri, US |
| Spouse: | Janet ( )[1] |
| Discipline: | Political science |
| Workplaces: | Michigan State University |
| Main Interests: | American, European, and Israeli elections |
Paul Robert Abramson (November 28, 1937 – February 12, 2018) was an American political scientist known for his research and writing on American, European, and Israeli elections. He was a professor of political science at Michigan State University.
Born on November 28, 1937, in St. Louis, Missouri,[2] Abramson graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Washington University in St. Louis in 1959 and attended the University of California at Berkeley as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in 1959–1960. He served as a lieutenant in the US Army between 1960 and 1962, earning an MA from the University of California in 1961 and a PhD in 1967. He joined the Michigan State University political science department as an assistant professor in 1967, was promoted to associate professor in 1971, and to professor in 1977. In 1996 he was one of twelve political scientists inducted into "The American Political Science Review Hall of Fame" for publishing ten or more articles in the American Political Science Review between 1954 and 1994. Abramson died on February 12, 2018.
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Abramson has written or co-written 13 book chapters, and 77 journal articles including 13 in the American Political Science Review.