James N. Druckman (born 26 June 1971) is an American political scientist who was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.
Druckman earned a bachelor's degree at Northwestern University in 1993, followed by a doctorate from the University of California, San Diego in 1999. He was an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, and returned to Northwestern in 2005 as a faculty member, where he was appointed Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science in 2009. He is also an Honorary Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University in Denmark. Starting Spring 2024, he is a faculty member at the University of Rochester.
With Nancy Mathiowetz, he was co-editor-in-chief of Public Opinion Quarterly for four volumes, from 2008 to 2012. and their joint tenure saw the publication of the journal's 75th anniversary edition.