Druckman earned a bachelor's degree at Northwestern University in 1993, followed by a doctorate from the University of California, San Diego in 1999.[4] He was an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota,[5] and returned to Northwestern in 2005 as a faculty member, where he was appointed Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science in 2009 and also the associate director of Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research.[6][7] In addition, he is an Honorary Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University in Denmark.[6] Starting Spring 2024, he joined the Rochester faculty as a professor of political science.
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