James S. Fishkin

James S. Fishkin
Fishkin at the first edition of the Democracy 2050 conference, organized by the Tribu Foundation in Santiago de Chile in 2018
Born	1948 (age 75–76)
Education	Yale University (BA, PhD); Cambridge University (PhD)
Occupation(s)	Professor, author
Notable work	Deliberative Polling
Title	Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication, Stanford University

James S. Fishkin (born 1948) is an American political scientist and communications scholar. He holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, where he serves as a professor of communication and, by courtesy, political science. He also acts as the director of Stanford’s Deliberative Democracy Lab. Fishkin is widely cited for his work on deliberative democracy, with his proposition of Deliberative Polling in 1988 being particularly influential. Together with Robert Luskin, Fishkin's work has led to over 100 deliberative polls in 28 countries.^[1]