James Druckman

James N. Druckman (born 26 June 1971) is an American political scientist who is a professor at the University of Rochester and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.^[1][2][3]

Druckman earned a bachelor's degree at Northwestern University in 1993, followed by a doctorate from the University of California, San Diego in 1999.^[4] He was an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota,^[5] and returned to Northwestern in 2005 as a faculty member, where he was appointed Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science in 2009 and also the associate director of Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research.^[6][7] In addition, he is an Honorary Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University in Denmark.^[6] Starting Spring 2024, he joined the Rochester faculty as a professor of political science.

With Nancy Mathiowetz, he was co-editor-in-chief of Public Opinion Quarterly for four volumes, from 2008 to 2012.^[8][9][10] and their joint tenure saw the publication of the journal's 75th anniversary edition.^[11]

Publications

• Druckman has authored or coauthored more than 150 articles.^[3][12]
• Partisan Hostility and American Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2024)^[13]
• Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX’s Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
• Experimental Thinking: A Primer on Social Science Experiments (Cambridge University Press, 2022)^[14]
• Druckman, James N.; Jacobs, Lawrence R. (2015). Who Governs? Presidents, Public Opinion, and Manipulation. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226234410.^[15]
• Druckman, James N.; Green, Donald P.; Kuklinski, James H.; Lupia, Arthur, eds. (2011). Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521174558.^[16]