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Born May 10, 1945, in Philadelphia, PA; son of Samuel (an engineer) and Yetta Greenberg; married Pamela Russell, April 16, 1967; married Rosa DeLauro (a politician); children: Kathryn, Anna, Jonathan.
EDUCATION:Miami University, B.A., 1967; Harvard University, M.A., 1968, Ph.D., 1972.
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Political scientist, educator, pollster, consultant, and writer. U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity, Washington, DC, project assistant, 1965; legislative assistant to Lee Hamilton, congressman, 1966; Barss, Reitzel & Associates, Cambridge, MA, project director, 1967-70; Yale University, New Haven, CT, assistant professor of political science, beginning 1971; Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, Washington, DC, founder, chair, and CEO, 1980—; Democratic Leadership Council, Washington, DC, principal polling advisor, 1988-94. Work-related activities include “People on War” project, International Committee of the Red Cross, director for one year; National Resource Defense Council Climate Center, strategic consultant for campaign on global warming; Democracy Corps, cofounder; University of the Witwatersrand, visiting lecturer, 1973-74; also director of field operations for the New Haven, CT, McGovern Campaign, c. 1972.
MEMBER:American Political Science Association.
AWARDS:Guggenheim fellowship; Hall of Fame inductee, American Association of Political Consultants.
RELIGION: Jewish.WRITINGS
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SIDELIGHTS
Political scientist, pollster, and consultant Stanley B. Greenberg has written several books focusing on the American political scene. He was worked as a polling advisor to leaders around the world, including U.S. President Bill Clinton, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and South African President Nelson Mandela. Greenberg is the cofounder of the politically progressive consultancy Democracy Corps and CEO and chairman of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research.
In Middle Class Dreams: The Politics and Power of the New American Majority, he takes a look at the political atmosphere in the United States in the mid-1990s and states his belief that both the Democrats and the Republicans have left the middle class with a feeling of betrayal. The author lays out his prescription for reform in government and proposes the creation of new social contracts, such as universal health insurance programs. John Hood, writing in Reason, noted that Greenberg “tries to explain American political history as a struggle between two pitches for middle-class voters: the ‘top-down’ message of Republicans that serving the interests of big business could spread prosperity throughout society and the ‘bottom-up’ message of Democrats that government should be on the side of ‘the working man.’” New Republic contributor Nicholas Lemann commented: “What makes his book interesting, in part, is knowing that you’re seeing some of the concealed endoskeleton of the presidency.”
Greenberg also served as editor with Theda Skocpol of The New Majority: Toward a Popular Progressive Politics. The book presents various discussions about progressive politics and how the Democratic Party can use such politics to help shape the national debate. “The theme is developed in an opening chapter by Skocpol and Greenberg and then in thirteen individual pieces, each of which examines a different aspect of the political agenda suggested,” explained L. Sandy Maisel in the American Political Science Review. Maisel went on to note that the book’s various sections look at issues such as “developing a new social contract between citizens and the government” and “how people can be brought back into the political process. Quite an impressive undertaking!” Atlantic Monthly contributor Nicholas Lemann wrote: “There is enough coherence here to make it worthwhile to wonder whether Greenberg, Skocpol, and their coauthors are onto a potentially winning new political formula.”
In his 2004 book The Two Americas: Our Current Political Deadlock and How to Break It, Greenberg outlines his views on how the two major political parties in America, the Democrats and the Republicans, have negated each other, leaving neither one able to maintain a clear preference with public opinion or votes. He examines the increasing polarization in American politics and provides a historical look at how the present state of politics came about since the 1950s. Writing in the Library Journal, Michael A. Genovese called the book “ambitious” and added that it “should make significant impact on the way we view politics in America.” A Publishers Weekly contributor noted: “Intricate strategic analysis and close attention to a wavering electorate make this political handbook stand out from the pack.”
In Dispatches from the War Room: In the Trenches with Five Extraordinary Leaders, Greenberg discusses his contributions to the political campaigns of U.S. President Bill Clinton, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, South African President Nelson Mandela, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. As the author explained to a Real Clear Politics interviewer, he helped these politicians use polling to shift public opinion in constructive ways. “We have the tendency to view politicians as superficial, especially if they rely on polling,” said Greenberg. “But something real drives these leaders. They were all sincerely interested in winning voters over. … These men were not poll driven, but were instead interested in using polling to guide them in moving the public along with them on dramatic issues.” Greenberg’s approach—creating a strong, clear campaign message for voters—worked well for Clinton in 1992, and was successfully transported to campaigns on other continents. In South Africa, for example, Greenberg helped Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress shape the general ideals of the anti-apartheid movement into concrete action, focusing on tangible results such as jobs and education.
Writing in the New York Times Book Review, Jonathan Freedland pointed out that, once in office, Greenberg’s clients tended to move away from the clear messages of their campaigns. “He puts it down to the divergence between the heartfelt missions that drive politicians and the instrumental projects they embark on to win power,” said the reviewer. “But another explanation is possible: that at least some of the campaign messages Greenberg so skillfully devised were simply too lacking in content to sustain a governing program.” Though Freedland expressed disappointment that the author does not fully address this question in the book, he acknowledged that “the best passages in the book are those in which he is sharply self-critical.”
A writer for Kirkus Reviews also found some of Greenberg’s argument less than convincing. But the reviewer nevertheless admired the author’s “candor,” stating that his honesty, as well as Greenberg’s broad experience, result in “an illuminating memoir.” Stronger praise came from a Publishers Weekly contributor, who commended Greenberg’s penetrating analysis of the politicians whom he advised. The deepest value in Dispatches from the War Room, according to that reviewer, “lies in his insider perspective on the leaders who helped shape this century.” Making a similar point, Kevin Sullivan wrote in Real Clear Politics that the book “is as much about leadership and the allocation of resources as it is about polling and survey research.”
Taking a somewhat different perspective, New Statesman contributor Philip Gould focused on Greenberg’s sense of betrayal when post-election realities mar the clarity of the campaign message. “What Greenberg wants above all else is that public opinion, progressive project and political leadership fuse seamlessly in campaign and in governance,” wrote Gould. “When this does not happen, as it invariably does not, he becomes frustrated and sometimes disillusioned, looking for reasons.” Though Greenberg does not offer a resolution to this dilemma, said the reviewer, his optimism helps him to see “qualities in leadership that are deeper, stronger and more compelling.”
Greenberg argues that the United States is at a pivotal point in his 2015 volume, America Ascendant: A Revolutionary Nation’s Path to Addressing Its Deepest Problems and Leading the Twenty-First Century. He suggests that the nation is primed for progressive reforms, including addressing wage inequality, climate change, and aging infrastructure. Greenberg supports his arguments with data from focus groups and surveys, as well as quotes from academics and members of the press.
Nancy LeTourneau offered a lengthy, mixed review of America Ascendant in Washington Monthly. LeTourneau asserted: “Greenberg does an excellent job highlighting why this is ‘the best of times.’ He identifies revolutions that are about both America’s economic ascendancy and our cultural exceptionalism.” LeTourneau added: “It is Greenberg’s suggestion about the need to reform government programs that is the most controversial. But he is likely correct that this is the issue that lies at the heart of the distrust white working-class voters have in the government. It is disappointing that he doesn’t provide any specifics, but simply refers to ‘out-of-date programs that don’t work.’” LeTourneau continued: “What I find lacking in Greenberg’s analysis is that he completely ignores the impact of Republican obstruction on the state of politics and the economy today.” Writing on the Wall Street Journal Web site, Michael Barone suggested: “Amid much fair-minded recounting of Republican opinions, Mr. Greenberg can’t resist some partisan spin. Republicans are so hostile to government and ‘blue America’ that they ‘nearly disqualify themselves from the public debate.’ His proposal to amend the First Amendment to permit the banning of electioneering movies and books might bar them further. Fortunately there’s enough serious analysis in America Ascendant to save it from any such suppression.” Library Journal contributor Jacob Sherman called the book “recommended for political junkies, progressives, and those wanting a hopeful treatise on America’s future.” “As we head into the presidential primary season, Greenberg’s book couldn’t be timelier, more disturbing for the Republicans, or more challenging for those looking to lead the Democrats,” remarked a critic in Kirkus Reviews.
Greenberg published RIP GOP: How the New America Is Dooming the Republicans in 2019. The account outlines how the combination of changing national demographics and a Republican Party that is slow-to-immoveable on a number of cultural policy issues point to a decline in the number of the party’s supporters. Greenberg continues and further develops arguments he made in 2015’s America Ascendant with the changes to the Republican Party since Donald Trump was elected president. Greenberg claims that the Republican Party’s resistance to letting women have more personal control over their bodies is playing out in states that are increasingly marginalized on the national electoral platform as urban centers fill up with more socially liberal millennials. On top of this urban-vs-rural divide is the fact that twelve million foreign-born migrants are added to the country’s electoral rolls, a group that is not traditionally aligned with the policies of the Republican Party. Greenberg argues that basic math and the progression of time will see the Republican Party’s current platform become irrelevant in national elections if they are unwilling or unable to adjust to the nation’s changing demographics and cultural views. Greenberg is also critical, however, of the Democrats, noting that they must change their message from seeing government as a means to lift up the poor to one that will help level the playing field for working-class Americans. A contributor to Kirkus Reviews admitted that “prognostication is always a risky business, but Greenberg makes a good case for a near-term future in which tea partiers and Trumpies will be largely irrelevant.”
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
American Political Science Review, June 1, 1998, L. Sandy Maisel, review of The New Majority: Toward a Popular Progressive Politics, p. 460.
American Prospect, March 1, 1996, Harold Meyerson, review of Middle Class Dreams: The Politics and Power of the New American Majority, p. 79.
Atlantic Monthly, April 1, 1998, Nicholas Lemann, review of The New Majority, p. 103.
Booklist, January 1, 1995, Mary Carroll, review of Middle Class Dreams, p 783.
Business Week, March 13, 1995, Susan B. Garland, review of Middle Class Dreams, p. 16; February 23, 2004, Richard S. Dunham, “How the Dems Could Win,” p. 22.
Campaigns & Elections, April 1, 2004, Ron Faucheux, review of The Two Americas: Our Current Political Deadlock and How to Break It, p. 44.
Choice, February 1, 1995, review of Race and State in Capitalist Development: Comparative Perspectives, p. 901; September 1, 1995, R.E. O’Connor, review of Middle Class Dreams, p. 216.
Commonweal, November 7, 1997, Alan Wolfe, review of The New Majority, p. 33.
Contemporary Sociology, September 1, 1998, review of The New Majority, p. 457.
Current History, May 1, 1988, Virginia Curtin Knight, review of Legitimating the Illegitimate: State, Markets, and Resistance in South Africa, p. 222.
International Affairs, September 22, 1989, Jesmond Blumenfeld, review of Legitimating the Illegitimate, p. 755.
International Journal of African Historical Studies, March 22, 1989, T. Dunbar Moodie, review of Legitimating the Illegitimate, p. 287.
Journal of Economic Literature, December 1, 1996, review of Middle Class Dreams, p. 2029; September 1, 1998, review of The New Majority, p. 1649.
Kirkus Reviews, October 15, 1994, review of Middle Class Dreams, p. 1385; December 15, 2008, review of Dispatches from the War Room: In the Trenches with Five Extraordinary Leaders; September 1, 2015, review of America Ascendant: A Revolutionary Nation’s Path to Addressing Its Deepest Problems and Leading the Twenty-First Century; July 1, 2019, review of RIP GOP: How the New America Is Dooming the Republicans.
Library Journal, February 1, 2004, Michael A. Genovese, review of The Two Americas, p. 109; October 15, 2015, Jacob Sherman, review of America Ascendant, p. 104.
Los Angeles Times, March 19, 1995, review of Middle Class Dreams, p. 3.
National Review, June 26, 1995, Rich Lowry, review of Middle Class Dreams, p. 66.
New Leader, June 5, 1995, Christopher Clausen, review of Middle Class Dreams, p. 15.
New Republic, March 13, 1995, Nicholas Lemann, review of Middle Class Dreams, p. 31.
New Statesman, March 19, 2009, Philip Gould, review of Dispatches from the War Room.
New York Times Book Review, March 12, 1995, Janet Hook, review of Middle Class Dreams, p. 10; October 27, 1996, review of Middle Class Dreams, p. 48; April 19, 2009, Jonathan Freedland, “Global Canvass,” p. 16.
Policy Studies Journal, March 22, 1997, Paul Gardner, review of Middle Class Dreams, p. 177.
Political Studies Journal, March 22, 1997, Paul Gardner, review of Middle Class Dreams, p. 177.
Presidential Studies Quarterly, June 22, 1995, R.J. Saulnier, review of Middle Class Dreams, p. 603.
Publishers Weekly, November 7, 1994, review of Middle Class Dreams, p. 58; November 17, 2003, review of The Two Americas, p. 53; December 1, 2008, review of Dispatches from the War Room, p. 40.
Reason, June 1, 1995, John Hood, review of Middle Class Dreams, p. 54.
Sociological Inquiry, June 22, 1997, Paul Schumaker, review of Middle Class Dreams, p. 385.
Washington Monthly, January 1, 2004, Ruy Teixeira, review of The Two Americas, p. 50; November 1, 2015, Nancy LeTourneau, review of America Ascendant, p. 41.
ONLINE
Bookreporter.com, http://www.bookreporter.com/ (October 28, 2009), Robert Finn, review of The Two Americas.
Democracy Corps, http://www.democracycorps.com/ (August 21, 2019), author profile.
Difficult Dialogues, http://www.difficultdialogues.co.za/ (October 28, 2009), Adrian Hadland, review of Dispatches from the War Room.
Fairfax County Public Library Foundation, http://www.fcplfoundation.org/ (October 28, 2009), author profile.
Greenberg Research, https://www.greenbergresearch.com/ (August 21, 2019), author profile.
NNDB, http://www.nndb.com/ (October 28, 2009), author profile.
Political Strategist, https://www.political-strategist.com/ (August 21, 2019), author profile.
Real Clear Politics, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ (October 28, 2009), “In the Trenches: An Interview with Stan Greenberg”; Kevin Sullivan, “Stan Greenberg and the Art of War.”
Wall Street Journal, http://www.wsj.com/ (November 18, 2015), Michael Barone, review of America Ascendant.
STANLEY B. GREENBERG is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller It's the Middle Class, Stupid! and polling adviser to presidents, prime ministers, and CEOs across the globe. He lives in Connecticut and Washington, D.C., with his wife, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT).
About the Founders
Stanley B. Greenberg
Stan Greenberg has served as polling advisor to presidents and prime ministers, CEOs, and dozens of tough campaigns in the US and around the world, including President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Nelson Mandela, as well as the national leaders in Israel, Europe and Latin America.
Greenberg’s corporate clients include Boeing, Microsoft and other global companies.
His New York Times best-selling book with James Carville – It’s the Middle Class, Stupid! – praised as a “recipe for Barack Obama’s re-election” and “playbook on how to talk to voters about economic issues” that “Democrats and Republicans alike in the elite and political class should pay heed.”
Stan and James founded Democracy Corps, the leading organization providing in-depth research and strategic advice to progressive groups, candidates and leaders. When Karl Rove listed in the Wall Street Journal 10 steps to regain the Republican majority, step one was to create a Democracy Corps. The New York Times’ Nate Silver rated their national polls the most accurate, within 1/2 point of Obama’s actual margin.
Stan’s book, Dispatches from the War Room: In the Trenches with Five Extraordinary Leaders, led George Stephanopoulos to conclude, “No single strategist has done more to lay the foundation for modern progressive politics – across the globe.”
He conducts the bi-partisan polls for NPR, The Los Angeles Times, and the Bipartisan Policy Center.
Stan conducts polls for the Israel Project in the US, Europe, and the Arab world, as well as the Nobel-prize winning campaign to ban landmines and for NGOs dealing with climate change, aging, women’s advocacy and political reform.
Stan was inducted into the American Association of Political Consultants’ ‘Hall of Fame.’ He has been described as “the father of modern polling techniques,” “the De Niro of all political consultants,” and “an unrivaled international ‘guru’.” Esquire Magazine named him one of the most important people of the 21st century. The New York Times writes that Greenberg “acts as a sort of people’s truth squad,” while The New Republic describes Stan Greenberg’s list of clients as a “who’s who in center-left world leaders.” The New Yorker reported Ehud Barak’s victory in 1999 as either a “stunning upset for the country’s Labor Party or… just another Greenberg client taking his place as the head of state.”
Republican pollster Frank Luntz says, “Stan Greenberg scares the hell out of me. He doesn’t just have a finger on the people’s pulse; he’s got an IV injected into it. He’s the best.”
Stan also wrote The Two Americas: Our Current Political Deadlock and How to Break It and Middle Class Dreams that put the spotlight on “Reagan Democrats.” Those insights made him the principal polling advisor to the Democratic Leadership Council during the formative years of change (1988-1994) for the Democratic Party.
Greenberg founded the company in 1980 after a decade of teaching at Yale University where he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was educated at Miami University and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D.
About Stanley B. Greenberg
Stanley B. Greenberg, PhD, is a critically acclaimed pollster, political strategist, researcher and published author. He is known around the world for his erudite and research-based guidance that has enabled hundreds of politicians, political parties, corporations and grassroots organizations to realize their objectives. Greenberg’s profound and extensive research reveals reliable truths that are successfully guiding candidacies and corporate maneuvers on trending topics, such as climate change, gender role transformations, the role of millennials and political reform. He is currently Chairman and CEO of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, the premier opinion research and political strategy consulting firm in the world.
Wide-Ranging Clientele
Stanley Greenberg’s client list reads like a roster of Who’s Who among the leaders of the world. For instance, Greenberg has served as pollster and political strategist to: President Clinton, President Nelson Mandela, Vice President Al Gore, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, U.S. Senator John Kerry, German Chancellor Gerhard Shroder, Joko Widodo, President of Indonesia and hundreds of other candidates and organizations in and outside of the United States.
Greenberg has provided strategic political consulting services to corporate giants, such as Microsoft, BP, Boeing, Sun Microsystems, Comverse, Monsanto and United HealthCare. He served as a strategic advisor to the Athens Olympics organizing committee in 2004, helping them prepare for the geopolitical challenges of the event. He has conducted polling for the campaign to ban landmines, the Israel Project, and for an international cadre of NGOs dealing with hot-button issues such as climate change, political reform, women’s advocacy and aging. Greenberg was the primary polling advisor to the Democratic Leadership Council during the period of major restructuring of the Democratic Party between the years 1988 – 1994.
History and Achievements
Stanley Greenberg was born in 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received his undergraduate degree in political science from Miami University and his PhD also in political science from Harvard University. Greenberg spent 10 years as a professor at Yale University where he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He left Yale to launch Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research in 1980. Greenberg is the recipient of numerous awards. For instance, he was inducted into the American Association of Political Consultants, “Hall of Fame” and he was named by Esquire Magazine as one of the most important people of the 21st Century. His colleagues describe him as the “father of modern polling techniques.”
Writing and Publications
Stanley Greenberg is also a prolific, internationally recognized, best-selling author. Many of his books have found their way to the New York Times bestseller list. His latest, which was published in 2015 and has been met with astounding reviews and sales, is “American Ascendant: A Revolutionary Nation’s Path to Addressing Its Deepest Problems and Leading the 21st Century”. Previous bestsellers include: “Dispatches from the War Room: In the Trenches with Five Extraordinary Leaders”.
In addition to his polling and political strategy consulting firm, Greenberg joined forces with James Carville to found Democracy Corps, the foremost organization providing research data and strategic counseling to public and private sector leaders, candidates and progressive groups. He and Carville also co-authored a best-selling book, “It’s the Middle Class Stupid.”—a playbook for how to speak to voters about economic issues.
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Stan Greenberg
Born
Stanley Bernard Greenberg
May 10, 1945 (age 74)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
U.S.
Alma mater
Miami University
Harvard University
Political party
Democratic
Spouse(s)
Rosa DeLauro
Children
3
Stanley Bernard "Stan" Greenberg (born May 10, 1945) is a leading Democratic pollster and political strategist. He is a founding partner at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research (GQR), a Washington D.C. headquartered political research and campaign company, that is closely affiliated with the Democratic Party. Stan Greenberg advised Presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton and Al Gore candidate president from Democratic party, as well as hundreds of other candidates and organizations in the United States, Latin America, Europe and around the world, including Gerhard Schröder, the former Chancellor of Germany and Tony Blair, the former British prime minister.[1][2]
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Life and career
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Controversies
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Personal life
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Life and career[edit]
A political scientist who received his bachelor's degree from Miami University and his Ph.D. from Harvard, Greenberg spent a decade teaching at Yale University before becoming a political consultant.[1] His 1985 study of Reagan Democrats in Macomb County, Michigan became a classic of progressive political strategy, and the basis for his continuing argument that Democrats must actively work to present themselves as populists advocating the expansion of opportunity for the middle class.[1] As the pollster for Clinton in 1992, Greenberg was a major figure in the famed campaign "war room" (and hence the documentary film of the same name).[3]
He is the CEO of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, a polling and consulting firm,[4] and co-founder (with James Carville and Bob Shrum) of Democracy Corps, a non-profit organization which produces left-leaning political strategy.[5]
Greenberg's current and former corporate clients include British Petroleum, British Airways, Monsanto Company and General Motors.[6]
Controversies[edit]
During his work for the Austrian SPÖ in 2001, Greenberg was criticized by FPÖ leader Jörg Haider because of his alleged negative campaigning.[7]
In May 2010 Greenberg was linked to a controversy involving White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. As a House member, Emanuel had lived for five years in a rent-free D.C. apartment jointly owned by Greenberg's wife, Democratic House member Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, and Greenberg. During this time, Emanuel was chairman of a committee that awarded large polling contracts to Greenberg's firm.[8]
Following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Greenberg's work for BP became controversial. Greenberg's firm has been called a "prime architect" of BP's effort to rebrand itself as a green petroleum company.[8] As early as 2002, critics had deemed that effort "greenwashing".[9]
Personal life[edit]
Greenberg is married to Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, who currently represents Connecticut's 3rd congressional district. Financial disclosures filed in Congress indicate that DeLauro is a multimillionaire.[10]
Books[edit]
External video
Booknotes interview with Greenberg on Middle Class Dreams, April 9, 1995, C-SPAN
Washington Journal interview with Greenberg on The Two Americas, January 8, 2004, C-SPAN
Presentation by Greenberg on The Two Americas, October 15, 2004, C-SPAN
After Words interview with Greenberg on Dispatches from the War Room, May 27, 2009
Politics and Poverty: Modernization and Response in Five Poor Neighborhoods (1974)
Race and State in Capitalist Development: South Africa in Comparative Perspective (1980).
Legitimating the Illegitimate: State, Markets, and Resistance in South Africa (1987)
Middle Class Dreams: The Politics and Power of the New American Majority (1995)
The Two Americas: Our Current Political Deadlock and How to Break It (2004) ISBN 0-312-31838-3
Dispatches From The War Room: In The Trenches With Five Extraordinary Leaders (2009) ISBN 0-312-35152-6
America Ascendant: A Revolutionary Nation's Path to Addressing Its Deepest Problems and Leading the 21st Century (2015)
Leading
World-renowned pollster and New York Times best-selling author, advises national and business leaders with a deep knowledge of social and economic currents
Stanley Greenberg is a New York Times best-selling author and polling adviser to presidents, prime ministers and CEOs globally and right now, is conducting deep research in multiple countries. He was the senior pollster for President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and President Nelson Mandela. Greenberg's corporate clients include Boeing, BP, Microsoft, and other global companies.
Greenberg's research and writing on disruptive changes in the US, Britain, Europe, South Africa and Venezuela and in the parties of both left and right is driving the public debate. His book about how America addresses its deepest problems was applauded by Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs, for its "great sense of history as well as deep understanding of the hopes and fears of today's Americans." And his new book, RIP GOP, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in the Spring 2019.
Greenberg’s book, Dispatches from the War Room: In the Trenches with Five Extraordinary Leaders, according to Kirkus Reviews, “lifts the curtain on the global pollster/consultant business.”
Lord John Browne, one of the world’s most successful, respected and socially engaged CEOs and Greenberg, advisor to the world’s most admired leaders and founder of modern polling techniques, for formed a new CEO consultancy.
Greenberg was inducted into the American Association of Political Consultants' "Hall of Fame." He has been described as "the father of modern polling techniques," "the De Niro of all political consultants," and "an unrivaled international 'guru.'" Esquire Magazine named him one of the most important people of the 21st century. Republican pollster Frank Luntz says, "Stan Greenberg scares the hell out of me. He doesn't just have a finger on the people's pulse; he's got an IV injected into it. He's the best."
He is always on call because his research is relevant, innovative and deep, whether it is exploring the new economy, climate change, the Olympic Movement, new gender roles, political reform, or the hegemonic role of the millennials.
Greenberg always works collaboratively with distinguished Republican pollsters and conducts the bi-partisan polls for NPR, The Los Angeles Times and the Bipartisan Policy Center.
Greenberg and James Carville founded Democracy Corps, the leading organization providing in-depth research and strategic advice to progressive groups, candidates, and leaders. When Karl Rove listed in the Wall Street Journal 10 steps to regain the Republican majority, step one was to create a Democracy Corps of their own.
His book with Carville—It's the Middle Class, Stupid!—was a New York Times best seller.
Greenberg taught for a decade at Yale University where he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was educated at Miami University and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. He is married to Rosa DeLauro and they have three children and six wondrous grandchildren
Greenberg, Stanley B. RIP GOP Dunne/St. Martin's (Adult Nonfiction) $29.99 9, 10 ISBN: 978-1-250-31175-7
If demography is destiny, then it would appear that the Republicans are in big trouble.
Democratic pollster Greenberg takes up the argument he began to unfold in America Ascendant (2015): The GOP is fighting a war, mostly on the cultural front, that it cannot hope to win, its "original sin" being the much-in-the-news war on women's rights to control their own bodies. This culture war is being waged by a bloc of evangelical states that are ever less important in the electoral mix, in large part because millennials, who tend to be socially liberal, are moving to the big cities, depopulating the countryside, and turning that culture war into an urban-vs.-rural battleground that the moribund white majority will eventually lose. Try as it might, the Trump administration cannot change the fact that the foreign-born populations of the U.S. is growing, with 12 million foreign-born migrants swelling the population of the nation's cities and suburbs. Given that "every religious denomination is coping with drops in the number of those who are religiously observant," and given that younger people generally support gay marriage and multiculturalism, it's the GOP's world to lose. That said, as Greenberg notes, there's still the business of messaging: The Democrats, he argues, have to change their notion that government can be a ladder to lift the poor and instead hammer on the more robust point that American workers need a level playing field. "Working people are no fools," writes the author, and they're now seeing the effects on their paychecks and lives of tariffs, cuts in health care and social services, and the like. Winning the blue-collar white vote won't be the easiest thing, Greenberg allows, but Trump lost significant numbers of those voters between 2016 and 2018--and 2020 is coming up fast.
Prognostication is always a risky business, but Greenberg makes a good case for a near-term future in which tea partiers and Trumpies will be largely irrelevant.
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