Resume

• 2008

  Leiden University

  Leiden University

  Professor of Political Science and Psychological Science

  Research focus: right wing populism and democratic decline; the psychology of how people make sense of politics

  University of California

  Irvine

  Yale University

  Bachelor’s Degree

  Harvard University

  Social Psychology

  Visiting Graduate Student

  University of Oxford

  Political Sociology

  Politics & Psychology

  Postdoctoral Fellow

• 2007

  University of California

  Berkeley

  University of California

  Irvine

  University of California

  Berkeley

• 2006

  Princeton University

  Princeton University

• 1995

  Lund University

  Lund University

• Political psychological study of the different ways people make sense of politics. Based on in-depth

  open-ended interviews of 50 people of vary diverse backgrounds.

  The Not So Common Sense: Differences in How People Judge Social and Political Life

  Co-authored with Dana Ward and Stephen Chilton. This is a developmental psychological analysis of political reasoning.

  Political Reasoning and Cognition

  A study of cognition and ideology that draws on the developmental psychological approach of Jean Piaget and L.S. Vygosky. The key claims are: (1) there is a general quality or underlying structure to a how a person thinks about various social and political issues; (2) different people may think about politics in fundamentally different ways.

  Reason

  Ideology and Politics

  An edited volume of seminal studies of democratic deliberation followed by commentary by four leading political theorists.

  Deliberation

  Participation and Democracy: Can the People Govern?

  Shawn