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Bill Ball is the publisher of ThePolity.net. He is a visiting associate professor of political science at Stetson University. From 1991 to 2009 he was a faculty member in the political science department at The College of New Jersey. He studies deliberative democracy and the civic education of adults while convening community-based deliberative forums. He also conducts local policy research with his students. His academic vita provides more details of these activities. When not doing that he is usually making self-indulgent short movies, buying stuff from Sparkfun electronics and torturing it to pieces, reading Make magazine, or barbecuing.