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Benjamin I. Page Ph.D.
Stanford University
Gordon S. Fulcher Professor of Decision-Making
American Politics

His interests include public opinion and policy making; the mass media; empirical democratic theory; political economy; policy formation; the presidency; and American foreign policy. He is author of a number of articles, including "Effects of Public Opinion on Policy" and "What Moves Public Opinion?", both in the American Political Science Review, and of seven books, including The Rational Public: Fifty Years of Trends in Americans' Policy Preferences (with Robert Shapiro), and Who Deliberates? Mass Media in Modern Democracy. He is currently studying the mass media, as well as public policy and inequality in the context of globalization. 

[e-mail: b-page@northwestern.edu]