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Kenneth Kollman

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Director, Center for International and Comparative Studies
Research Professor, Center for Political Studies
Ph.D., Northwestern

4248 ISR
426 Thompson Street
(734) 936-0062
kkollman@umich.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:


Ken Kollman is Professor of Political Science and Research Professor in the Center for Political Studies in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research and teaching focus on political parties, elections, lobbying, federal systems, formal modeling, and complexity theory. He was recently on sabbatical at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford writing a book on comparative federalism, but is now back in Ann Arbor. He published a book in 2004 with Princeton University Press (co-authored with Pradeep Chhibber) on political party systems in four countries, Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States, which won the Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award from the organized section on Political Parties and Organizations of the American Political Science Association, and he continues to conduct research on party systems in a variety of countries, including Korea, Germany, France, and several in Sub-Saharan Africa. Along with Allen Hicken, Daniele Caramani, and David Backer, he is organizing CLEA, the Constituency Level Election Archive, which will post on the web the largest collection of election returns for parliamentary elections from around the world. He also published a book with Princeton Press on lobbying strategies in the United States, and has an edited volume (with John Miller and Scott Page) with MIT Press on computational models in political economy.

Selected Publications

  • The Formation of National Party Systems: Federalism and Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States. 2004. With Pradeep Chhibber. Prince ton University Press.
  • Computational Models in Political Economy. 2003. Edited with John Miller and Scott Page. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • “Decentralization and the Search for Policy Solutions.” with Scott E. Page and John H. Miller. 2000. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organizations. 16 (April):102-28.
  • “Consequences of Nonlinear Preferences in a Federal Political System.” 2000. with John H. Miller and Scott E. Page. In Diana Richards, ed. Political Complexity: Nonlinear Mod els of Politics. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
  • Outside Lobbying: Public Opinion and Interest Group Strategies (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998).
  • "Party Aggregation and the Number of Parties in India and the United States," with Pradeep Chhibber American Political Science Review, (1998) 92:329-42.
  • "Political Parties and Electoral Landscapes," with John H. Miller and Scott E. Page, British Journal of Political Science (1998) 28:139-58.
  • "Political Institutions and Sorting in a Tiebout Model," with John H. Miller and Scott E. Page, American Economic Review (1997) 87:977-92.
  • "Inviting Friends to Lobby: Interest Groups, Ideological Bias, and Congressional Committees," American Journal of Political Science (1997) 41:519-44.
  • "Landscape Formation in a Spatial Voting Model," with John H. Miller and Scott E. Page, Economics Letters (1997) 55:121-30.
  • "Computational Political Economy," with Scott E. Page and John H. Miller in The Economy as an Evolving Complex System II, ed. W. Brian Arthur, Steve Durlauf, and David Lane (Readin g, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997).

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