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Schofield, Norman J.
Dr. William Taussig Professor of Political Economy and Director of the Center in Political Economy

Office:     Seigle 240
Phone: (314) 935-5630
Fax: (314) 935-4156
Web: http://schofield.wustl.edu
Email: schofield.norman@gmail.com
Office Hours:   Wednesday 2.00-4.00
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Curriculum Vitae:
1.1.1.1.Nov16.vitaschofield.pdf

Keywords:
Formal theory, comparative politics

Biographical:
Norman Schofield is Director of the Center in Political Economy, the William R. Taussig Professor of Political Economy, and Professor in the Departments of Economics and Political Science. He is currently working on topics in the theory of social choice, political economy, and democracy. His recent publications in democratic theory include articles in the European Journal of Political Research (2005), The Review of Economic Studies (2007), and (with Gary Miller), Political Studies (2003), the American Political Science Review (2003), the American Journal of Political Science (2007), and Perspectives on Politics (2008).His paper on Authoritarian Regimes (with Micah Levinson) was published in Politics, Philosophy and Economics in 2008. He has written several books, including Multiparty Government (with Michael Laver, in 1990), Social Choice and Democracy (1985), and co-edited three volumes: Political Economy: Institutions, Information, and Representation in 1993 ,and Social Choice, Welfare and Ethics, in 1995 (both with Cambridge University Press), and Collective Decision Making (Kluwer, 1996). His book, Mathematical Methods in Economics and Social Choice, was published by Springer in 2003. In 2006 he published Architects of Political Change as well as Multiparty Democracy (with Itai Sened) both with Cambridge University Press. His book, The Spatial Model of Politics (Routledge) was published in 2008 , followed by The Political Economy of Democracy and Tyranny (Oldenbourg) 2008. He has been the recipient of a number of NSF awards, most recently one on electoral politics and regime change. In 2003 he was the Fulbright distinguished professor at Humboldt University and in 2007, visiting fellow at ICER in Turin. In Spring 2008 he was the visiting Leitner Professor at Yale University.
He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April 2005.

Current Couses:
  • PS 4551 and 5551 (Fall 2009) - syllabus
  • political economy of democracy. spring 2010 - syllabus
  • seminar in social choice and comparative political economy, spring 2010 - syllabus

Working Papers:
  • Architects of political change
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  • multiparty democracy
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  • Activists and partisan realignment
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  • critical elections(2003)
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  • equilibrium in the spatial valence model(2004)
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  • local political equilibria
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  • political equilibrium in Britain(2005)
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  • modelng the interaction of parties,activists and voters(2005)
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  • multiparty competition in Israel
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  • Condorcet
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  • political equilibria with electoral uncertainty (SCW 2007)
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  • necessary and sufficient conditions for convergent equilibrium (Review Econ Studies, July 2007)
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  • Equilibria in the spatial stochastic model of voting with party activists (Rev.Econ.Design)
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  • “ Divergence in the Spatial Stochastic Model of Voting,” in Power, Freedom and Voting (2008)
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  • Republican and Democrat Coalitions (with Gary Miller, in Perspectives on Politics)
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  • Elections and Activist Coalitions in the US (AJPS,2007)with Gary Miller
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  • A Model of Political Competition with Activists applied to elections in Argentina , 1985-1995.” (with Guido Cataife). Mathematical Social Science, 53 2007): 213-231
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  • social choice and elections
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  • Quandaries and Civil War
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  • Switching equilibria
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  • Modelling Authoritarian Regimes (PPE, 2007) with Micah Levinson
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  • The Spatial Model of Politics (Nov 2007)
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  • Political economy of Democracy and Tyranny (august 2008)
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  • Formal models of elections and political bargaining (with Ozdemir, Czech Economic Review, 2009)
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  • An activist Model of Democracy (june 2008)
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  • Public Choice (1998)
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  • AOR Israel(1998)
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  • Stochastic Models
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  • social orders (June 2009, to appear in SCW)
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  • A Stochastic Model of the 2007 Russian Duma Election (with Alexei Zakharov, Public Choice 2009)
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  • Political support (Oct.2009)(with Schnidman)
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  • Nontradeable goods and political divergence (with galiani and Torrens (2009)
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  • structural stability of the political economy
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  • Elections in Britain, Netherlands and Canada with Ozdemir and Gallego(Oct 2009)
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