Team led by James Fishkin wins ‘Virtues’ grant

A Stanford proposal is one of the winners in the University of Chicago’s competition for “A New Science of Virtues,” an international competition for work that combines the sciences and humanities to shed light on virtuous behavior. Out of more than 700 proposals, 19 winners will average $150,000 each.

The winning project from Stanford was “Deliberative Democracy and the Virtues of Democratic Citizenship.” The principal investigator is JAMES FISHKIN, the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication and director of the Center for Deliberative Democracy, who worked with ALICE SIU, associate director of the center, and ROBERT C. LUSKIN, an associate professor at the University of Texas, Austin.