Civic Reasoning: Why Thoughtful People Disagree

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Pablo Montagnes is an Associate Professor of Data and Decision Sciences and Political Science at Emory University, where he co-directs the Center for Civic Reasoning and co-teaches its flagship course, Policy Debates: Left and Right. The Center prepares students for democratic citizenship by teaching them to understand why thoughtful people disagree and to engage that disagreement constructively. He also serves as President of the Emory College Faculty Senate.

His research is in political economy: how institutions, incentives, and information shape accountability and behavior, with work on elections and ideology, courts, lobbying, bureaucracy, and the governance of firms and public institutions. He holds a PhD in Managerial Economics from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, and his work has appeared in the American Economic Review, the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Politics, Management Science, and PNAS.

Zachary Peskowitz is the Masse-Martin NEH Professor of Political Science at Emory University, where he co-directs the Center for Civic Reasoning and co-teaches its flagship course, Policy Debates: Left and Right. The Center prepares students for democratic citizenship by teaching them to understand why thoughtful people disagree and to engage that disagreement constructively.

His research is on elections and public policy in the United States. He received his PhD from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2012 and spent 2020-21 as the W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow and Starr Foundation Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and his analysis has been covered in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.