Please answer the following question: Information:  - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS Church or, informally, the Mormon Church) is a Christian restorationist church that is considered by its followers to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ. The church is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has established congregations and built temples worldwide. According to the church, it has over 74,000 missionaries and a membership of over 15 million. It is ranked by the National Council of Churches as the fourth-largest Christian denomination in the United States. It is the largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement founded by Joseph Smith during the period of religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening.  - A candidate, or nominee, is the prospective recipient of an award or honor, or a person seeking or being considered for some kind of position; for example:  - Campaign finance refers to all funds raised to promote candidates, political parties, or policy initiatives and referenda. Political parties, charitable organizations, and political action committees (in the United States) are vehicles used in aggregating funds to keep campaigns alive. "Political finance" is also popular terminology, and is used internationally for its comprehensiveness. Campaign finance deals with "the costs of democracy", a term coined by G. Alexander Heard for his famous analysis of campaign finance in the U.S.  - Brigham Young (June 1, 1801August 29, 1877) was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States. He was the second President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1847 until his death in 1877. He founded Salt Lake City and he served as the first governor of the Utah Territory. Young also led the foundings of the precursors to the University of Utah and Brigham Young University.  - Direct democracy (also known as pure democracy) is a form of democracy in which people decide (e.g. vote on, form consensus on) policy initiatives directly. This differs from the majority of modern Western-style democracies, which are representative democracies.  - David Blyth Magleby ( born October 20 , 1949 ) is a distinguished professor of political science at Brigham Young University ( BYU ) and formerly the dean of the College of Family , Home , and Social Sciences at that institution . He is an expert on direct democracy and campaign finance . Magleby is the author of several books . His first , Direct Legislation , is considered the seminal work on initiatives and referenda . Along with the other works Magleby has written , he is the lead editor of a series on presidential election finance , including Financing the 2008 Election . He has also written several works on issues related to soft money in campaigns . In 1990 , he served on a bipartisan Senate task force on campaign finance reform and his book on the subject , The Money Chase , was published by the Brookings Institution . In addition , Magleby authors a best - selling American government textbook , Government by the People , which , as of late 2012 , was in its 25th edition . Prior to joining the faculty of BYU , Magleby was a professor at the University of California , Santa Cruz and the University of Virginia . Magleby received his bachelor 's degree from the University of Utah and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California , Berkeley . At BYU , Magleby has served as dean , department chair , and founding director of the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy ( CSED ) . He also established the KBYU / Utah Colleges exit poll . Every election year , the poll mobilizes several hundred college students from Utah college campuses to gather data about Utah voters and elections . BYU students design the survey and sample . On Election Night , Magleby hosts a television program where students present the results of the poll . Magleby is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints ( LDS Church ) . As such , his comments have been sought on Mormon political issues , such as gay marriage and Mitt Romney 's presidential campaign . He has also contributed articles on politics to...  - Brigham Young University (often referred to as BYU or, colloquially, The Y) is a private research university in Provo, Utah, United States. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and excluding online students, is the largest of any religious university and the third largest private university in the United States, with 29,672 on-campus students. Approximately 99 percent of the students are members of the LDS Church, and one-third of its US students are from Utah.  - In political science, an initiative (also known as a popular or citizens' initiative) is a means by which a petition signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can force a public vote (referendum, sometimes called a plebiscite).  - George Alexander Heard (born March 14, 1917, in Savannah, Georgia; d. July 24, 2009, in Nashville, Tennessee) was chancellor of Vanderbilt University from 1963 to 1982. He was also a political scientist and adviser to U.S. presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Richard Milhous Nixon.    After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'david magleby' exhibits the relationship of 'occupation'. Find the answer from the choices below.  Choices: - candidate  - chancellor  - leader  - political scientist  - president  - religious  - research  - saint  - science
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political scientist