Jamie Druckman is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. He also is an Honorary Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University in Denmark. His research focuses on political preference formation and communication. His most recent work examines how citizens make political, economic, and social decisions in various different contexts (e.g., settings with multiple competing messages, online information, deliberation). He also has explored the relationship between citizens’ preferences and public policy, and how political elites make decisions under varying institutional conditions.

He has published articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, and other political science, communication, economic, and psychology journals. The Russell Sage and McKnight foundations have supported his work, and he received the 2004 McKnight Presidential Fellows Award. From 1999 to 2005, Druckman served on the faculty at the University of Minnesota, where he was most recently the Benjamin Lippincott Associate Professor of Political Economy.

His work has been recognized with multiple awards including the Franklin L. Burdette / Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper presented at the 2006 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. He also received the 2006 Erik Erikson Early Career Award for excellence and creativity in the field of political psychology from the International Society of Political Psychology. He co-edited the journal Political Psychology from 2002 to 2005 and is currently an associate editor of Public Opinion Quarterly. He is a co-editor of Chicago Studies in American Politics, a book series published by The University of Chicago Press, and the editor of the Political Science Research Network eJournal on Experiments and Experimental Design. He obtained his BA from Northwestern in 1993, majoring in mathematical methods in the social sciences and political science. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego in 1999.