Directors: This website is run by Jonathan Haidt at NYU-Stern, Matt Motyl at the University of Virginia, and Ravi Iyer at the University of Southern California. We exercise some light editorial oversight, but the content here is provided by a network of contributors who, we can assume, do not all agree with everything that the other contributors have written. We selected the initial contributors for the excellence of their research and the diversity of their perspectives. The content on each page can be assumed to reflect the views of the editor listed at the bottom of that page, unless the content is specifically signed by another contributor. In 2012 we will gradually develop a set of policy recommendations that are supported by the large majority of the contributors.
Contributors:
James Ault, documentary filmmaker, author, and sociologist, Northampton MA. Author of Spirit and Flesh: Life in a fundamentalist Baptist Church
Bill Bishop, Author of The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart
Peter Ditto, Dept. of Psychology, U. of California at Irvine
Susan Herbst, Dept. of Political Science, U. of Connecticut (and president of the university). Author of Rude Democracy: Civiliy and Incivility in American Politics
Marc J. Hetherington, Dept. of Political Science, Vanderbilt University. Author of Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics
Lauren Howe, Dept. of Psychology, Stanford University
David Klein, Dept. of Politics, University of Virgina
Liz Joyner, Executive Director of The Village Square (a group working to improve civil politics in Florida)
Hal Movius, President, Movius Consulting, Inc. Senior Consultant, The Consensus Building Institute. Author of Built to Win: Creating a World-Class Negotiating Organization
Diana Mutz, Dept. of Political Science, U. of Pennsylvania. Author of Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative vs. Participatory Democracy
Richard Redding, School of Law, Chapman University
Lynn Sanders, Dept. of Politics, University of Virgina
Emily Sydnor, Dept. of Politics, University of Virginia
Emily J. Charnock, Fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, Dept. of Politics, University of Virginia
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