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Kenneth Kollman

Professor
Acting Vice Provost for International Affairs
Acting Director of the International Institute
Research Professor, Center for Political Studies
Ph.D., Northwestern

International Institute
2660 Social Work Bldg
1080 South University
(734) 936-1538
kkollman@umich.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:


Ken Kollman is currently Acting Vice Provost for International Affairs, and Acting Director of the International Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is also Professor of Political Science and Research Professor in the Center for Political Studies in the Institute for Social Research. His research and teaching focus on political parties, elections, lobbying, federal systems, formal modeling, and complexity theory. He is writing a book on centralization in federated institutions, which includes analyses of the European Union, the Catholic Church, and the United States government. With Allen Hicken, Daniele Caramani, and David Backer, he has produced CLEA, the most comprehensive electronic archive of constituency-level election results in the world. This year he will be completing a textbook on American government for W.W. Norton & Co.

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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