Lori Weber
Assistant Professor

Office: Butte 733
Telephone: (530) 898-4504
Email: lweber@csuchico.edu

Lori M. Weber received her Ph.D. from University of Colorado at Boulder.  Her research interests are political participation, deliberative democratic theory, electronic democracy, political tolerance and hate politics.  Professor Weber teaches political methodology and public opinion courses.  She received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Dissertation Enhancement award for her dissertation on “The Effects of Democratic Deliberation on Political Tolerance.”  She has published several book chapters on the 1992 Perot movement and the Reform Party.  She also has published articles in scholarly journals on political participation, deliberative democracy, and electronic democracy.  Currently, Professor Weber is involved in an NSF-funded research project based at Carnegie Mellon University that investigates deliberation and political communication over the Internet.