Career
Mackie specializes in the study of harmful social practices, including female genital mutilation. Using ideas from game theory, he has worked with United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund and the non-governmental organization Tostan to persuade communities to abandon the practice. He is co-director of United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund"s Learning Program on Changing Social Conventions and Social Norms, and of University of California, San Diego"s Center on Global Justice.
Mackie obtained his Mississippi in political science from the University of Chicago in 1990 and his Doctor of Philosophy, also from Chicago, in 2000 for a thesis entitled "Is Democracy Impossible? A Preface to Deliberative Democracy."
Before joining University of California, San Diego, Mackie was assistant professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, a research fellow at the Australian National University, and a junior research fellow at Street John"s College, Oxford.
