Robert C. Luskin

Robert C. Luskin is Associate Professor of Government and Director of the Center for Deliberative Opinion Research at the University of Texas at Austin and Visiting Associate Professor of Communication and Research Advisor at the Center for Deliberative Democracy at Stanford University .  He received his B.A. from the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan .  He has also taught at the University of Alabama , Indiana University , Princeton University , and Stanford University , as well as in the ICPSR Summer Program at the University of Michigan , the ECPR Summer School at the University of Essex , and the Summer School on Advanced Methods in the Social Sciences at the Universita della Svizzera Italiana .

He has also been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and Chercheur Associé at the Centre d'Etude de la Vie Politique Française and is presently Chercheur Associé at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Grenoble .  He has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Texas Poll and of the Editorial Boards of Political Analysis and the American Political Science Review .

Luskin's general interests include public opinion, voting behavior, political psychology, and statistical methods, and he has published papers on these and other topics in the American Political Science Review , the American Journal of Political Science , the British Journal of Political Science , and other scholarly journals. In particular, he has long been interested in political information and its effects on the texture and outcomes of representative democracy. Among other recent projects, he has been working on the design and analysis of Deliberative Polls in the U.S. and abroad and on an analysis of political knowledge in France and the U.S.