Robert HuckfeldtRobert Huckfeldt is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. He is the author or co-author of Politics in Context; Race and the Decline of Class in American Politics; Citizens, Politics, and Social Communiction (Cambridge, 1995); Political Disagreement (Cambridge, 2004); Experts, Activists, and Interdependent Citizens; and a number of articles. He received the 1979 E. E. Schattschneider Award for outstanding dissertation in American politics from the American Political Science Association; the 2012 Doris Graber Outstanding Book Award from the Political Communication Section of the American Political Science Association; and outstanding conference-paper awards from the Political Communication Section and the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Section of the American Political Science Association. He received his PhD from Washington University, St Louis. Read More Read Less