Ted Becker

Ted Becker (B.A., J.D., Rutgers; M.A., University of Maryland; Ph.D., Northwestern University.) Becker is the author of 15 books in the fields of Law and Politics, American Government, Global Geo-Politics, and Conflict Resolution.

He is the former chairman of the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai’i and also at Auburn University. He has also been the Distinguished Visiting Professor at California State at Los Angeles and Victoria University of Wellington (NZ), as well as The Walter Meyer Professor of Law at NYU School of Law and the Alma Holladay Professor of Civic and Community Engagement at Auburn University where he presently teaches (2016-17).

Dr. Becker is also a professional mediator who was co-founder of the first university based community mediation center in Hawai’i as well as the Executive Coordinator of Honolulu Neighborhood Mediation Network for the City and County of Honolulu and was Vice President of the Asia-Pacific Organization of Mediators (Manila, Philippines), of which he was a co-founder.

His main passion, however, is the field of citizen empowerment through new forms of democracy. He is co-inventor of the first scientific deliberative poll (Televote); one of the early practitioners of Electronic Town Meetings; co-organizer of the first two International Congresses of Direct Democracy (Prague and Athens); and is currently finishing up his next book on this subject, Real Democratic Revolutions.