Robert E. Lane was Eugene Meyer Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Yale University, where he taught for nearly five decades. His research examined political parties, public opinion and the psychology of political behavior. He was President of the American Political Science Association and President of the International Society of Political Psychology. Lane was also a Research Associate at Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies and a visiting scholar at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, the London School of Economics, and the Australian National University, among others. He authored Political Ideology: Why the American Common Man Believes What He Does (1962), which won the Philip Converse Book Award in 2008. His other works include Problems in American Government (1952), Political Thinking and Consciousness (1969), and After the End of History: The Curious Fate of American Materialism (2006).
