Research is a crucial part of NICD’s mission. Since the organization’s inception, NICD has sought to support research on civility in order to create a body of knowledge on the history of political discourse in American and ways to improve the nation’s political and social discourse. The organization’s research staff and research network support scholars throughout the country in their research and teaching. NICD also strives to conduct research on the effectiveness of its own program.
About NICD Research Network
Our Research
Research is a crucial part of NICD’s mission. Since the organization’s inception, NICD has sought to support research on civility in order to create a body of knowledge on the history of political discourse in American and ways to improve the nation’s political and social discourse. The organization’s research staff and research network support scholars throughout the country in their research and teaching. NICD also strives to conduct research on the effectiveness of its own program.
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The NICD Research Network includes over fifty scholars from a range of academic institutions, disciplines, and political perspectives who study political and social discourse. The NICD Research Network serves as a forum for encouraging cross-disciplinary research on civility and incivility; for connecting academic researchers with practitioners and the general public; and for supporting new and innovative research.
Featured Research
Highlighting the work our Research Network has produced to enhance understanding and improve civil discourse.
NICD Research Brief 10: Conspiracy Theories
Research Brief No. 7: The Concept of Civility in Modern Political Philosophy
Research Staff
The Common Interest, the state-level pilot organization, operated in Idaho from 2005 – 2009. Its major legislative achievements led the Idaho Democratic Party to make the unusual move of asking him, as an independent, to be their nominee for Governor in 2010.
Prior to returning home to pilot the citizens’ group, Keith became the first professor of negotiation and conflict resolution hired by Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He started his academic career as a professor at Columbia.
Keith has also served in a variety of business leadership roles. Most recently, he was a partner at the Cicero Group, ranked the 12th best boutique management consulting firm in the world by Vault.com. Prior to Cicero, he served as COO of Health Catalyst. Keith’s leadership there played a critical role in attracting a major investment by Sequoia Capital. He is a member of the Board of Directors for Midas Gold, which trades on the Toronto Exchange (TSX: MAX).
Keith earned a PhD in Organizational Behavior from UCLA and BA in American History from Stanford. A fifth-generation Idahoan who grew up working summers on the family cattle ranch, Keith finished eighth in the world standings of the National Cutting Horse Association in 2017 after competing in the World Finals in Fort Worth. He and Christine are the proud parents of Anna (16), Dan (14), and Cate (11). The kids are still deciding if they’ve forgiven their parents for moving them from Idaho to DC this summer.