Strengthening Democracy Challenge
Who
can submit?
Anyone - academics, practitioners, and others - from the US and around the world can submit their ideas. We are particularly interested in people who are not academics, but who have ideas about how to reduce these outcomes.
Who
are the participants?
Our sample of Republicans and Democrats will be recruited to be representative regarding sex, age, ethnicity, education, and region within parties. More details can be found in the handbook.
Who
is organizing this challenge?
The Strengthening Democracy Challenge is 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
Nick Stagnaro
Post Doctoral Scholar, Human Collaboration Lab and Polarization and Social Change Lab
MIT and Stanford University
Principal Investigators
Robb Willer
Professor of Sociology, Psychology (by courtesy), and Organizational Behavior in the GSB (by courtesy)
Stanford University
James Druckman
Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research
Northwestern University
Who
is the Advisory Board?
Members of our advisory board provide expert reviews for the submissions that are the foundations of the decisions made by the editorial board. They are experts on democratic attitudes and partisan animosity from diverse backgrounds, including academics from different disciplines as well as members of the bridging community.
Adam Berinsky
Mitsui Professor of Political Science; Director of the Political Experiments Research Lab
MIT
Cheryl Graeve
National Community Organizer
National Institute of Civil Discourse (NICD) at the University of Arizona
Leslie McCall
Associate Director of Stone Center, Presidential Professor of Sociology and Political Science
City University of New York (CUNY)
Chris Bail
Professor of Sociology, Public Policy, and Data Science; Director, Polarization Lab
Duke University
Eli Finkel
Professor of Psychology, Professor of Management and Organizations
Northwestern University
Neil Malhotra
Edith M. Cornell Professor of Political Economy, Louise and Claude N. Rosenberg, Jr. Director of the Center for Social Innovation
Stanford University
Mara Ostfeld
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Faculty Associate for Center for Political Studies
University of Michigan
Eszter Hargittai
Professor in the Institute of Communication and Media Research
University of Zurich
Cindy Kam
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, Professor of Psychology (by courtesy); Director of Research on Individuals, Politics & Society Lab
Vanderbilt University
Zeenat Rahman
Executive Director of the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
Betsy Sinclair
Professor of Political Science, Director of Graduate Studies in Political Science
Washington University in St Louis