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Who I Am...

I am a faculty member in the Department of Political Science, University of Rochester located in Rochester, New York. My research interests include formal and quantitative methods in political science. My office is located in the W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy. I also consort with economists.

I was formerly on the faculty of the Politics Department at Princeton University, but don't hold it against me.

What I Do...

My vita is available here.

Teaching

Fall 2007: PSC 584, Game Theory, and PSC 407, Mathematical Modeling.

Summer 2007: Summer reading group on Topics in Political Economy, as part of the Political Economy Working Group. The reading list is available here.

Spring 2007: PSC 281, Formal Models in Political Science, and PSC 408, Positive Political Theory.

Fall 2006: PSC 584, Game Theory, and PSC 586, Theory of Voting and Elections.

Research

Here are some recent papers:

Electoral Systems, Political Corruption, and Voter Information, coming soon!

Uncertainty and Incentives in Crisis Bargaining: Game-Free Analysis of International Conflict (with Kris Ramsay)

Duverger's Law Without Strategic Voting

Mechanism Design Goes to War: Peaceful Outcomes with Interdependent and Correlated Types (with Kris Ramsay), forthcoming in Review of Economic Design

Mutual Optimism and War (with Kris Ramsay), published in American Journal of Political Science, 51 (4), October 2007, pp. 738-754

Rent-Seeking Contests with Incomplete Information, forthcoming in Public Choice

Pre-play Communication in Games of Two-Sided Incomplete Information (with Jaehoon Kim and Larry Rothenberg)

Risky but Rational: War as an Institutionally-Induced Gamble (with Hein Goemans), forthcoming in Journal of Politics

Choosing From a Large Tournament, forthcoming in Social Choice and Welfare

The Swing Voter's Curse with Adversarial Preferences (with Jaehoon Kim), published in Journal of Economic Theory, 135 (1), July 2007, pp. 236-252

The Common Priors Assumption: A Comment on Bargaining and the Nature of War (with Kris Ramsay), published in Journal of Conflict Resolution, 50 (4), August 2006, pp. 607-613

Repeated Downsian Electoral Competition (with John Duggan), published in International Journal of Game Theory, 35 (1), December 2006, pp. 39-69.

An Application of Asymptotic Density to Characterizing Voting Rules, published in Tatra Mountains Mathematical Publications, 31, 2005, pp. 29-37.

Electoral Competition with Policy-Motivated Candidates (with John Duggan), published in Games and Economic Behavior, 51 (2), May 2005, pp. 490--522.

Group Support and Top-Heavy Rules, published in Economics Letters, 84 (2), August 2004, pp. 255-259.

May's Theorem with an Infinite Population, published in Social Choice and Welfare, 23 (2), October 2004, pp. 275-294.

A Note on the Condorcet Jury Theorem with Supermajority Rules, published in Social Choice and Welfare, 20 (1), February 2003, pp. 27-32.

The Swing Voter's Curse: Comment (with Jaehoon Kim), published in American Economic Review, 92 (4), September 2002, pp. 1264-1268.

Stability and Coordination in Duverger's Law: A Formal Model of Pre-Election Polls and Strategic Voting, published in American Political Science Review, 91 (1), March 1997, pp. 135-147.

An Experimental Study of Constant-sum Centipede Games, (with Thomas R. Palfrey and Richard D. McKelvey), published in International Journal of Game Theory, 25 (3), 1996, pp. 269-287.

All of these papers are PDF files. Acrobat Reader is available here, but you probably already have it.

Conferences

Last year, I was a co-organizer of the Wallis Institute Conference on Political Economy. The program is available here. I also co-organized the conference in 2000, 2001, 2003, and 2005.

In the summer of 2000, John Duggan and I hosted a workshop on Models of Candidate Entry, Exit, and Positioning. The program is available here.