Peter Loewen
Current affiliations
- Director, Munk School
- Director, PEARL
- Associate Director, Schwartz Reisman Institute for AI and Society
Areas of interest
- Future of democratic societies
- Policy, elections and representation
- Political polarization
- Citizens' perceptions of elected officials
Biography
Professor Peter Loewen is the Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. Professor Loewen teaches in the Department of Political Science and the Munk School.
Professor Loewen is the Director of PEARL, Associate Director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute, a Senior Fellow at Massey College, and a Fellow with the Public Policy Forum. For 2020-2022, he is a Distinguished Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Tel Aviv University.
Professor Loewen received his B.A. from Mount Allison University (2002) and his PhD from l’Université de Montréal (2008). He held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of British Columbia and the University of California at San Diego. Since joining the University of Toronto Mississauga in 2010, he has held visiting positions at the Melbourne School of Government at the University of Melbourne, the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
From 2016 to 2018, Professor Loewen was the Director of the School of Public Policy & Governance until it was amalgamated with the Munk School of Global Affairs to create the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy.
Professor Loewen’s work has been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Medicine, Nature Human Behaviour, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, Transactions of the Royal Society B, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and other journals. He has edited four books and is a regular contributor to the media, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Globe & Mail, Toronto Star and National Post.
He grew up in North Bay, Ontario and now lives in Toronto with his wife, Yvette, and two children.
Professor Loewen’s CV is available here.
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Peter John Loewen is the Director of PEARL, the Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, and a Professor in the Department of Political Science. He is also the Associate Director of the Schwartz-Reisman Institute.
Peter received his BA from Mount Allison University (2002) and his PhD from l’Université de Montréal (2008). He held postdocs at the University of British Columbia and the University of California at San Diego. Since coming to Toronto in 2010, he has held visiting positions at the Melbourne School of Government at the University of Melbourne, the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
His work has been published in American Political Science Review, Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Transactions of the Royal Society B, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and other journals. He has edited four books. He often contributes to the popular press. His CV is available here.
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Books
- de Geus, Roosmarijn, Erin Tolley, Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, and Peter John Loewen. (Eds). 2021. Women, Power, and Political Representation. University of Toronto Press.
- Tuohy, Carolyn, Sophie Borwein, Peter John Loewen, and Andrew Potter. (Eds). 2019. Policy Transformation in Canada: Is the Past Prologue? University of Toronto Press.
- Loewen, Peter and Daniel Rubenson. (Eds). 2019. Duty and Choice: Voter Turnout and Choice in the World’s Electoral System. University of Toronto Press.
- Potter, Andrew, Peter John Loewen, and Daniel Weinstock. (Eds). 2017. Should We Change How We Vote? McGill-Queen’s University Press.
