John Lapinski
Robert A. Fox Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
John Lapinski is the Robert A. Fox Professor of Political Science, faculty director of the Robert A. Fox Leadership Program, and director of the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves as faculty director for the Executive Master's of Public Administration program within the Fels Institute of Government and as director of the elections unit at NBC News. In his role for NBC News, Lapinski is responsible for projecting races for the network and produces election-related stories through exit polls for NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, Telemundo, and all of NBC's digital properties. Lapinski's primary area of research is concerned with understanding national elections as well as lawmaking in Congress through empirical analysis.
