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Christopher Karpowitz is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. He earned an M.A. and B.A. (summa cum laude and University Honors) from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. His research is located at the intersection between political behavior and political theory, and he has developed special interests in deliberation, democratic theory, civic engagement, political psychology, and American political thought. His dissertation, Having a Say: Public Hearings, Deliberation, and Democracy in America, explores how citizens experience and perceive political institutions and democratic processes, focusing on both traditional public hearings and reforms designed to foster greater deliberation. He is co-author of Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation, and What We Can Do About It, and he has published chapters and articles in The Deliberative Democracy Handbook (with Jane Mansbridge) , Can The People Decide?(with Tali Mendelberg), and the British Journal of Political Science. Christopher received an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University, where he was named to the Fellowship of Woodrow Wilson Scholars and was an affiliate graduate student at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics. He was also a Research Associate at the Center for Human Values at Princeton.

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