Polls and Politics: The Dilemmas of Democracy

Contributors

Contributors James S. Fishkin is Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University where he is also Director of the Center for Deliberative Democracy. He is the author of several books including Democracy and Deliberation : New Directions for Democratic Reform (Yale University Press, 1991) and The Voice of the People: Public Opinion and Democracy (Yale University Press, 1995) and the editor with Peter Laslett of Debating Deliberative Democracy (Blackwell, 2003). He originated Deliberative Polling and has conducted more than twenty such experiments in public opinion research in the United States, Britain, Denmark, Australia, Bulgaria and other countries. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Cambridge. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford as well as Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge. Michael A. Genovese is Loyola Chair of Leadership Studies and Professor of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University. He has written fourteen books, including The Power of the American Presidency and The Paradoxes of the American Presidency. Dr. Genovese is the editor of The Encyclopedia of the American Presidency for Factson -File. He has won over a dozen university and national teaching awards. Diane J. Heith is Assistant Professor of Government and Politics at St. John’s University. She is the author of several works on polling and the presidency, including, Polling to Govern: Public Opinion and Presidential Leadership. Her work has appeared in Public Opinion Quarterly, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly, White House Studies and The Encyclopedia of Public Opinion. She has also co-authored an article on the health care debate and political advertising for The Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 181 Melinda S. Jackson is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include political psychology, public opinion, and political identity. Lawrence R. Jacobs is Professor of Political Science, Adjunct Professor in the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota, and Associate Director of the Institute of Social, Economic , and Ecological Sustainability. He is currently chair of the American Political Science Association’s Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy. Dr. Jacobs’ most recent book is Politicians Don’t Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness (with Robert Shapiro), which received the Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center for Press and Politics, the Neustadt Book Prize from the American Political Science Association , and the Distinguished Book Prize in political sociology from the American Sociological Association. He also authored, The Health of Nations: Public Opinion and the Making of Health Policy in the U.S. and Britain as well as publications in the American Political Science Review, World Politics, Comparative Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly , and other scholarly and popular outlets. Dr. Jacobs received a prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award in Health Policy Research and grants from the Ford Foundation, National Science Foundation , the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Russell Sage Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and others. Susan H. Pinkus is the Director of the Los Angeles Times Poll. She has published articles in Public Perspective and PS. She is on the Board of Directors at the Roper Center, is a trustee for the National Council on Public Polls (NCPP), and is the past president of the Pacific Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. Matthew J. Streb is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of The New Electoral Politics of Race and co-editor with Christine Barbour of Clued in to Politics: A Critical Thinking Reader in American Government. He has published a half dozen articles in journals including Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, and Politics and Policy. Michael W. Traugott is Professor of Communication Studies and Political Science and Chair of the Department of Communication 182 Contributors Studies at the University of Michigan. The author of 9 books and more than 60 articles and book chapters, his most recent work focused on a revised edition of The Voter’s Guide to Election Polls and an edited volume, Election Polls, the News Media, and Democracy, both with Paul Lavrakas. He is also the author, with Edie Goldenberg, of Campaigning for Congress. He is a past...