Peter is Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Cornell University. Formerly, he was an associate professor of political science and the director of the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto. He is substantively interested in questions of elite and citizen behaviour and how information (and information technology) can improve governance and representation. He’s published in journals of political science, economics, biology, and general science. Prior to the University of Toronto, he completed postdocs at UBC and UCSD and a PhD at the Université de Montréal. He has held visiting positions at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton and the Melbourne School of Government, University of Melbourne.
Peter is Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Cornell University. Formerly, he was an associate professor of political science and the director of the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto. He is substantively interested in questions of elite and citizen behaviour and how information (and information technology) can improve governance and representation. He's published in journals of political science, economics, biology, and general science. Prior to the University of Toronto, he completed postdocs at UBC and UCSD and a PhD at the Université de Montréal. He has held visiting positions…