# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-pierson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:45:18.701Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-pierson"
name: "Paul Pierson"
slug: "paul-pierson"
description: "Paul Pierson is an American professor of political science specializing in comparative politics and holder of the John Gross Endowed Chair of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. From 2007-2010 he served at UC Berkeley as Chair of the Department of Political Science. He is noted for his research on comparative public policy and political economy, the welfare state, and American political development. His works on the welfare state and historical institutionalism have been characterized as influential."
tagline: "American political scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Pierson_2012_04.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1959"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.37
  momentum:             10.68010075566751
  historical:           5.525562666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Paul Pierson"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Pierson"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Pierson"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump