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Strengthening Democracy Challenge

Who

organized this challenge?

The Strengthening Democracy Challenge was organized by a multidisciplinary team of social scientists from Stanford University, MIT, Northwestern University, and Columbia University. Our team consists of political scientists, psychologists, sociologists, and economists.

Research Team

Jan Voelkel

PhD Student, Sociology

Stanford University

Joe Mernyk

Research Coordinator, Polarization and Social Change Lab

Stanford University

Nick Stagnaro

Post Doctoral Scholar, Human Collaboration Lab and Polarization and Social Change Lab

MIT and Stanford University

Chrystal Redekopp

Research Director, Polarization and Social Change Lab

Stanford University

James Chu

Assistant Professor, Sociology

Columbia University

Sophia Pink

Research Coordinator, Polarization and Social Change Lab

Stanford University

Principal Investigators

David Rand

Associate Professor of Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences

MIT

James Druckman

Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research

Northwestern University

Robb Willer

Professor of Sociology, Psychology (by courtesy), and Organizational Behavior in the GSB (by courtesy)

Stanford University

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