Esterling ORCID record

Citation

ORCID. “Kevin Esterling,” record 0000-0002-5529-6422, from the ORCID public API. The researcher maintains the record. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5529-6422. Read 2026-10-26.

Bottom line

Kevin Michael Esterling has been a professor at UC Riverside since 2003. He was Associate Dean, then Interim Dean, of the Graduate Division from 2012 to 2017.
The record lists 51 works and 10 grants. Most are on deliberation, Congress and online town halls.
His grants include NSF, the Institute of Education Sciences and the California Air Resources Board (CARB). The CARB grant uses online town halls for community input in California.

Background

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Key claims

Employment: “Asst., Assoc., Full Professor; Public Policy and Political Science; 2003 to present”, UC Riverside. (Employment)
Graduate Division: Associate Dean 2012 to 2016, Interim Dean 2016 to 2017. (Employment)
Education: Ph.D., Political Science, University of Chicago, 1999. BA, Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, 1989. (Education)
Executive Committee, Berkeley Initiative on Transparency in the Social Sciences, since 2012. Editor, Research & Politics, since 2018. (Invited positions, Service)
Grants include “The Prytanea Project: A Web-Based Town Hall Platform” (Democracy Fund, 2020 to 2021). (Funding)
They also include “Connecting Classrooms to Congress” (Institute of Education Sciences, 2021 to 2025). (Funding)
A CARB grant: “Building Local-level Capacity for Implementing Decarbonization Strategies: Empowering Community Engagement Using Deliberative Online Town Halls”. No dates. (Funding)
A 2026 work: “Comparing the Subjective Opinions and Justifications of LLMs and Web Search Engines”. (Works)
A 2024 work: “Post-January 6th deplatforming reduced the reach of misinformation on Twitter” (Nature). (Works)

Evidence and method

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Limits

The record does not show his department chair role or his role at the Riverside AI Institute (RAISE).
Some grants have no dates or amounts.