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John R. Chamberlin

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Professor, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Ph.D., Stanford

Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
4121 Weill Hall
735 South State St.
(734) 763-0689
johnch@umich.edu

Research Interests:

Professor Chamberlin's primary research interests are in social choice theory (representation, voting systems for multi-candidate elections) and ethics and public policy. His current projects include an examination of proposals for reforming political redistricting and an investigation of the effects of including non-issue preferences in spatial models of elections.

Selected Publications

  • "Provision of Collective Goods as a Function of Group Size,"American Political Science Review, 1974
  • "Toward Applicable Social Choice Theory: A Comparison of Social Choice Functions under Spatial Model Assumptions,"American Political Science Review, 1978 (With Michael Cohen)
  • "Representative Deliberations and Representative Decisions: Proportional Representation and the Borda Rule," American Political Science Review, 1983 (With Paul Courant).
  • "Privatization as Institutional Choice," with John E. Jackson, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1987.
  • "Ethics and Game Theory," Ethics and International Affairs, 1989.
  • "Formal Political Theory and the Design and Evaluation of Institutions," in Institutions in American Society, ed. John E. Jackson (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1990).
  • "Fairness and Secrecy: A Contractarian Approach," with Kim Lane Scheppele, Rationality and Society, 1991.

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