Johnny Goldfinger
Assistant Professor
Phone number: 317-278 8443
Room number: CA 503G

Johnny Goldfinger joined the Department of Political Science in 2002. He teaches introduction to political theory, the history of political theory sequence (Plato through Nietzsche), and courses in contemporary political thought. Before coming to IUPUI, he was an instructor at the University of New Orleans, Duke University, and Wake Forest University.

Johnny has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and a BA with majors in philosophy and political science from the University of South Alabama. He also earned MA degrees in political science from the University of New Orleans and Duke University. Johnny received his Ph.D. in political science from Duke in 2003. His dissertation, Deliberative Democracy, Preference Change, and Social Choice, looks at the normative and empirical consequences of the political theories of John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas.

Johnny research generally combines the insights of normative political theory with the findings of formal and empirical political science. His substantive interests tend to focus on the theory and practice of democracy including participation, deliberation, and decision-making. He also has interests in the politics of cultural pluralism and the social construction of personal identity. Johnny currently has working papers on the effects of political messages on third-party viability, the relationship between social capital and government performance, the consequences of different recall procedures, the use of diverse social group perspectives in jury trials, and the future of multicultural education in America.

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