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Schofield, Norman J.
Dr. William Taussig Professor of Political Economy and Director of the Center in Political Economy
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Curriculum Vitae:
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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 Review of Economic Studies (2007), and Public Choice (in 2010, with Alexei Zakharov) 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 four volumes: Political Economy: Institutions, Information, and Representation in 1993 ,and Social Choice, Welfare and Ethics, in 1995 (both with Cambridge University Press), Collective Decision Making (Kluwer, 1996) and the Political Economy of Democracy (2009). 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, Munich)in 2009. He has received a number of NSF awards, most recently one on electoral politics and regime change. He was the recipient of the Riker prize for political theory in 2002. 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, and in summer 2009, a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April 2005.
Current Couses:
- political economy of democracy. 3552.spring 2010 - syllabus
- PS 4551 AND 5551( syllabus not available for viewing )
- ps 4551 and 5551( syllabus not available for viewing )
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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- 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 2010)
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- Political support (Feb.2010)Homo Oeconomicus(with Schnidman)
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- structural stability of the political economy(2010)
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- Elections in Britain, Netherlands and Canada with Ozdemir and Gallego(Oct 2009)
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- Factor emdowments and democracy with Galiani and Torrens (2010)
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- Comparison of US and Israel (with Claassen and Ozdemir,FEB 2010)
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- Turkey (SCW,2010), with Gallego, Ozdemir and Zakharov
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- Is the political economy stable or chaotic (2010)
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- US 2000 (with Ozdemir and Claassen, 2010)
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