Christopher F. Karpowitz and Tali Mendelberg

Christopher F. Karpowitz is a professor of political science and codirector of the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy at Brigham Young University. Tali Mendelberg is the John Work Garrett Professor of Politics and the director of the Program on Inequality at Princeton University. Together, they are the authors of multiple award-winning papers and of The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions (Princeton University Press, 2014). In 2015, their book won the American Political Science Association’s Robert E. Lane Award for the best book in political psychology and its award for best book in experimental methods, as well as the International Society of Political Psychology’s David O. Sears Award for the best book published in the field of mass politics.