Modeling Program - Core Faculty
Robert Axelrod. Ph.D. Yale University.
Professor Axelrod's principal interests include math models (especially computer simulation), international security affairs, and complexity theory. His main current projects are in emergent properties of social systems (including culture and institutions), and in the political and social effects of the information revolution. He is also interested in developing a theory of personal, social and political responsibility.
Jenna Bednar. Ph.D. Stanford University.
Professor Bednar studies comparative federalism using approaches from game theory and microeconomics. Her current research centers on modeling different institutional forms among federal systems, and whether particular decision-making mechanisms can enhance the stability of diverse societies.
William Clark. Ph.D. Rutgers University.
Professor Clark's research explores how political and social institutions can simultaneously be the product of human choice and an important determinant of human behavior. To this end, he has used game theory to understand the policy choices finance ministers and central bankers and the institutional choices of their elected principals. He is currently exploring models to examine the effect of institutional structure on the effort level of church leaders.
Kenneth Kollman. Ph.D. Northwestern University.
Professor Kollman is currently working on the development of mathematical and computational models of political party formation in legislatures and electoral districts. He also studies the effects of multi-layered electoral competition in federal political systems.
Arthur Lupia. Ph.D. California Institute of Technology
Professor Lupia develops formal models that clarify how information and institutions affect fundamental political phenomena. He regularly integrates his models with empirical work and experiments. He then applies new insights to topics such as voting and elections, civic competence, legislative-bureaucratic relations, parliamentary governance, political development, and the role of the media in politics.
James Morrow. Ph.D. University of Rochester.
Professor Morrow uses game theoretical models to understand international politics, generally war and conflict. His current research interests are how international law and institutions shape international politics and how domestic institutions affect how the international and domestic policies that leaders adopt to help them retain power.
Scott Page. Ph.D. Northwestern University.
Professor Page studies mathematical and computational models of economic and political institutions. His main interests are in the study of how diverse groups of decision-makers can outperform more homogeneous groups of decision-makers, and how political institutions can aggregate preferences efficiently, even in the presence of complicated preference structures among voters.
Charles Shipan. Ph.D. Stanford.
Professor Shipan studies the creation and effects of political institutions. He is especially interested in developing models that help us to understand the relationship between institutions, such as legislatures and agencies or legislatures and courts, and using these models to generate testable hypotheses.
George Tsebelis. Ph.D Washington University (St. Louis).
George Tsebelis studies political institutions as game forms; the result of such analysis is that behaviors of political actors as well as outcomes of political interactions can be studied as equilibrium strategies and equilibrium outcomes of games. Such analyses come to empirically accurate yet understudied effects of institutions.
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