title: Donald Kinder
text: # Donald Kinder
  
  Donald Ray Kinder (born April 14, 1947) is an American political scientist and the Philip E. Converse Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He is also a professor by courtesy in the University of Michigan's Department of Psychology, and a research professor in the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research's Center for Political Studies. In 2017, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
  
  ## Books
  
  * (with Shanto Iyengar) News that Matters: Television and American Public Opinion (University of Chicago Press, 1987)
  * (with Cindy Kam) Us Against Them: Ethnocentric Foundations of American Opinion (University of Chicago Press, 2010)
  