# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-s-fishkin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:45:26.268Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-s-fishkin"
name: "James S. Fishkin"
slug: "james-s-fishkin"
description: "James S. Fishkin is an American political scientist and communications scholar. He holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, where he serves as a professor of communication and, by courtesy, political science. He also acts as the director of Stanford’s Deliberative Democracy Lab. Fishkin is widely cited for his work on deliberative democracy, with his proposition of Deliberative Polling in 1988 being particularly influential. Together with Robert Luskin, Fishkin's work has led to over 100 deliberative polls in 28 countries."
tagline: "American political scientist (1948-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_S._Fishkin_en_Democracia_2050.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
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birthDate: "1948-05-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.847761194029851
  historical:           5.01512
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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    url:       "https://profiles.stanford.edu/james-fishkin"
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    title: "Фишкин, Джеймс"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump