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David Moscrop PhD | |
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| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of British Columbia (PhD) University of Ottawa (post-doc) |
Notable work | Too Dumb for Democracy? (2019 book) |
David Moscrop is a Canadian podcaster, political scientist, columnist, and the author of the 2019 book Too Dumb for Democracy?
Moscrop has a PhD in political science [1] from the University of British Columbia [2] and was a post-doctoral Scholarly Communication Lab fellow at the University of Ottawa. [3] [4]
Moscrop has written for both The Washington Post [1] and Maclean's Magazine. [4] [5] He is the author of Too Dumb for Democracy? a 2019 book that documents how people make decisions against their own interests. [5] [6] [3]
He hosts the podcast Open to Debate. [7]
Moscrop advocates for deliberative democracy. [2]
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