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Citations
41904
World Ranking
29
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2012 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

James N. Druckman is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a substantial body of work across related subfields such as sociology and political science, political science and international relations, clinical psychology, communication, and health.

The scientist's published works cover a range of contemporary and interdisciplinary topics including misinformation and its impacts, electoral systems and political participation, social media and politics, COVID-19 and mental health, social and intergroup psychology, long-term effects of COVID-19, and vaccine coverage and hesitancy.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Druckman include:

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Political sectarianism in America, 2020, Science
  • Affective polarization, local contexts and public opinion in America, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Prevalence and Correlates of Long COVID Symptoms Among US Adults, 2022, JAMA Network Open
  • How Affective Polarization Undermines Support for Democratic Norms, 2021, Public Opinion Quarterly

Druckman collaborates frequently with several scholars, notably:

  • Roy H. Perlis
  • Katherine Ognyanova
  • David Lazer
  • Matthew Baum
  • Mauricio Santillana

Their publications appear regularly in venues including:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • JAMA Network Open
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Experimental Political Science

James N. Druckman has authored multiple books published by Cambridge University Press, among them:

  • Experimental Thinking (2022)
  • Black Networks Matter (2024)
  • Equality Unfulfilled (2023)

Druckman's academic contributions have been recognized by awards including Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, both awarded in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response.

    Jay J. Van Bavel;Katherine Baicker;Paulo S. Boggio;Valerio Capraro

  • THE IMPLICATIONS OF FRAMING EFFECTS FOR CITIZEN COMPETENCE

    James N. Druckman

  • On the Limits of Framing Effects: Who Can Frame?

    James N. Druckman

  • A Theory of Framing and Opinion Formation in Competitive Elite Environments

    Dennis Chong;James N. Druckman

  • F RAMING T HEORY

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  • How Elite Partisan Polarization Affects Public Opinion Formation

    James N. Druckman;Erik Peterson;Rune Slothuus

  • The Generalizability of Survey Experiments

    Kevin J. Mullinix;Thomas J. Leeper;James N. Druckman;Jeremy Freese

  • Political Preference Formation: Competition, Deliberation, and the (Ir)relevance of Framing Effects

    James N. Druckman

  • Framing Public Opinion in Competitive Democracies

    Dennis Chong;James N. Druckman

  • Framing and Deliberation: How Citizens' Conversations Limit Elite Influence

    James N. Druckman;Kjersten R. Nelson

  • The Demographic and Political Composition of Mechanical Turk Samples

    Kevin E. Levay;Jeremy Freese;James N. Druckman

  • The Influence of Partisan Motivated Reasoning on Public Opinion

    Toby Bolsen;James N. Druckman;Fay Lomax Cook

  • Political sectarianism in America

    Eli J. Finkel;Christopher A. Bail;Mina Cikara;Peter H. Ditto

  • The Impact of Media Bias: How Editorial Slant Affects Voters

    James N. Druckman;Michael Parkin

  • The Growth and Development of Experimental Research in Political Science

    James N. Druckman;Donald P. Green;James H. Kuklinski;Arthur Lupia

  • Emotion and the Framing of Risky Choice

    James N. Druckman;Rose McDermott

  • Dynamic Public Opinion: Communication Effects over Time

    Dennis Chong;James N. Druckman

  • The evidence for motivated reasoning in climate change preference formation

    James N. Druckman;Mary C. McGrath

  • Framing, Motivated Reasoning, and Opinions About Emergent Technologies

    James N. Druckman;Toby Bolsen

  • Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science

    James N. Druckman;Donald P. Green;James H. Kuklinski;Arthur Lupia

  • Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science: Students as Experimental Participants

    James N. Druckman;Cindy D. Kam

  • The Power of Television Images: The First Kennedy-Nixon Debate Revisited

    James N. Druckman

  • Learning More from Political Communication Experiments: Pretreatment and Its Effects

    James N. Druckman;Thomas J. Leeper

  • The crisis of democracy and the science of deliberation.

    John S. Dryzek;André Bächtiger;Simone Chambers;Joshua Cohen

  • How Elite Partisan Polarization Affects Public Opinion Formation (WP-12-14)

    James Druckman;Erik Peterson;Rune Slothuus

Frequent Co-Authors

Toby Bolsen
Toby Bolsen Georgia State University
Fay Lomax Cook
Fay Lomax Cook Northwestern University
Arthur Lupia
Arthur Lupia University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Lawrence R. Jacobs
Lawrence R. Jacobs University of Minnesota
Donald P. Green
Donald P. Green Columbia University
Matthew A. Baum
Matthew A. Baum Harvard University
James H. Kuklinski
James H. Kuklinski University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David Lazer
David Lazer Northeastern University
David G. Rand
David G. Rand Cornell University
Jay J. Van Bavel
Jay J. Van Bavel New York University

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