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SESSION VI Open Part 1 of 2: Gerry Mackie
Gerry Mackie (born c. 1960s) is an American political scientist, currently associate professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
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- SESSION VI Open Part 1 of 2 Gerry Mackie
- Forum on Energy and Climate Justice Introduction Gerry Mackie
- Education and career
- References
Mackie specializes in the study of harmful social practices, including female genital mutilation. Using ideas from game theory, he has worked with UNICEF and the NGO Tostan to persuade communities to abandon the practice. He is co-director of UNICEF's Learning Program on Changing Social Conventions and Social Norms, and of UCSD's Center on Global Justice. He is the author of Democracy Defended (2003).
Forum on Energy and Climate Justice - Introduction - Gerry Mackie
Education and career
Mackie obtained his MS in political science from the University of Chicago in 1990 and his PhD, also from Chicago, in 2000 for a thesis entitled "Is Democracy Impossible? A Preface to Deliberative Democracy."
Before joining UCSD, Mackie was assistant professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, a research fellow at the Australian National University, and a junior research fellow at St John's College, Oxford.