American Politics, Political Institutions, Political Behavior, Theory of Social Choice, Formal Theories of Politics, Public Law

Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Graduate School of Business

Marble Fellowship, 1967-68.
National Defense Education Act, 1968-69.
Social Science Research Council Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 1969-70.
Brookings Fellowship, 1970-71.
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois, 1971-72.
Fellow, Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 1981-82.
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1981-82.
National Fellow, Hoover Institution, 1982-83.
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1985-.
Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1988-.
Richard Fenno Prize for the best book in legislative politics during 1987.

Graduate Courses
Political Science 420C: American Political Institutions

Books

Pork Barrel Politics: Rivers and Harbors Legislation, 1947-1968. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1974).

The Personal Vote: Constituency Service and Electoral Independence (with Bruce Cain and Morris Fiorina). (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987).

Information and Democratic Processes. John Ferejohn and James Kuklinski (eds.). (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1990).

The New Federalism: Can the States be Trusted? John Ferejohn and Barry Weingast (eds.). (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1997).

Articles

"Voting, or a Price System in a Competitive Market Structure" (with Talbot Page), American Political Science Review, March 1973.

"Externalities as Commodities: Comment" (with Talbot Page), The American Economic Review, 1974.

"The Paradox of Not Voting: A Decision Theoretic Analysis" (with Morris P. Fiorina), American Political Science Review, 1974.

"On a Class of Rational Social Decision Procedures" (with David M. Grether), Journal of Economic Theory, 1974.

"Observations on a Distributive Theory of Policy Making: Two American Expenditure Programs Compared" (with Barry S. Rundquist), in Comparative Public Policy: Theories, Methods and Issues, 1974.

"Resource Efficiency in the Public Sector," Political Science Annual 6, Cornelius P. Cotter (ed.), (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975).

"Closeness Counts Only in Horseshoes and Dancing" (with Morris P. Fiorina), American Political Science Review 49, September 1975.

"Who Wins in Conference Committee," Journal of Politics 37, 1975.

"Purposive Models of Legislative Behavior" (with Morris P. Fiorina), American Economic Association Papers And Proceedings 65, May 1975.

"On the Effects of Aid to Nations in Arms Races," in Mathematical Models in International Relations, (Praeger, 1976).

"An Experimental Market for Public Goods: The PBS Station Program Cooperative" (with Roger G. Noll), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 1976.

"Weak Path Independence" (with David M. Grether), Journal of Economic Theory 14, no. 1, February 1977.

"On the Decline of Competition in Congressional Elections," American Political Science Review 71, no. 1, March 1977.

"Some New Impossibility Theorems" (with David M. Grether), Public Choice 29, Summer 1977.

"Decisive Coalitions in the Theory of Social Choice," Journal of Economic Theory 15, no. 2, August 1977.

"Uncertainty and the Formal Theory of Political Campaigns" (with Roger G. Noll), American Political Science Review, 1978.

"On the Distribution of Rights in Society," Decision Theory and Social Ethics, Hans Gottinger (ed.), Reiden, 1978.

"On the Foundations of Intertemporal Choice" (with Talbot Page), The Journal of Agricultural Economics, May 1978; reprinted in Materials and Society, 1978; reprinted in a Resources for the Future conference volume, Emery Castle (ed.).

"Practical Aspects of the Construction of Decentralized Decisionmaking Systems for Public Goods" (with Robert Forsythe and Roger G. Noll), Application of Social Choice Theory, Clifford Russell (ed.), (Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 1979).

"An Experimental Analysis of Decision-making Procedures for Discrete Public Goods: A Case Study of a Problem in Institutional Design," Research in Experimental Economics 1, Vernon Smith (ed.), (Greenwich, Connecticut: J.A.I. Press, 1979), pp. 1-58.

"Toward a Theory of Legislative Decision" (with Morris P. Fiorina and Herbert F. Weisberg), Game Theory and Politics, Peter Ordeshook (ed.), (New York University Press, 1979).

"The House is Not a Home: MP's and Their Constituents" (with Bruce E. Cain and Morris P. Fiorina), in Legislative Studies Quarterly, November, 1979.

"Characterization of Some Binary Decision Procedures" (with Peter Fishburn), in Journal of Economic Theory, 1980.

"Continuous-Valued Binary Decision Procedures" (with David M. Grether, Steven A. Matthews, and Edward W. Packel), Review of Economic Studies, 1980.

"A Nonequilibrium Approach to Legislative Decision Theory" (with Morris P. Fiorina and Edward W. Packel), in Behavioral Science, March 1980.

"A Comparison of Party Identification in Great Britain and the U.S." (with Bruce E. Cain), Comparative Political Studies 14, no. 1, April 1981.

"On the Properties of Stable Decision Procedures" (with David M. Grether), in Political Equilibrium, Ken Shepsle and Peter Ordeshook (eds.); Studies in Public Choice, Gordon Tullock (ed.), (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1982).

"An Experimental Examination of Auction Mechanisms for Discrete Public Goods" (with Robert Forsythe, Roger G. Noll, and Thomas R. Palfrey), in Research in Experimental Economics 2, Vernon Smith (ed.), 1982.

"An Impossibility Theorem for von Neumann-Morgenstern Solutions" (with Richard D. McKelvey), in The Journal of Economic Theory, February 1983.

"The Constituency Component: A comparison of Service in Great Britain and the United States" (with Morris Fiorina and Bruce E. Cain), in Comparative Political Studies, April 1983.

"Implementation of Democratic Social Choice Functions" (with Richard D. McKelvey and David M. Grether), in The Review of Economic Studies, 1983.

"Coattail Voting in Recent Presidential Elections" (with Randall L. Calvert), in American Political Science Review, 1984.

"Congress and Redistribution," in Making Economic Policy in Congress, Allen Schick (ed.), Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1984.

"Limiting Distributions for Continuous State Markov Models," (with Edward W. Packel and Richard D. McKelvey) in Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 1, May
1984, pp. 45-68.

"Continuous Social Decision Procedures" (with Edward Packel), in Mathematical Social Science, 1984.

"Presidential Coattails in Historical Perspective" (with Randall Calvert), in The American Journal of Political Science, 1984.

"The Constituency Service Basis of the Personal Vote for U.S. Representative and British MP's" (with Bruce Cain and Morris Fiorina), in American Political Science Review, 1984. Reprinted in Controversies in American Voting Behavior, Richard Niemi and Herbert Weisberg (eds.), (New York, NY: W.H. Freeman & Co., 1984).

"Constituency Service in the United States and Great Britain" (with Bruce Cain and Morris Fiorina), in Congress Reconsidered (revised edition), Larry Dodd and Bruce Oppenheimer (eds.), (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1985).

"Comment on Lowi's 'The State in Politics,'" in Regulatory Policy and the Social Sciences, Roger Noll (ed.), (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985).

"Incumbency and Realignment in Congressional Elections" (with Morris Fiorina), The New Direction in American Politics, John Chubb and Paul Peterson (eds.), 1985, pp. 91-116.

"Incumbent Performance and Electoral Control," Public Choice, vol. 30, Fall 1986.

"Logrolling in an Institutional Context: A Case Study of Food Stamps Legislation," in Congress and Policy Change, Gerald Wright, Leroy Rieselbach and Lawrence Dodd (eds.), (New York City: Agathon Press, 1986).

"Sophisticated Voting and Agenda Independence in the Distributive Politics Setting" (with Morris Fiorina and Richard McKelvey), American Journal of Political Science, vol. 31, no. 1, Feb. 1987.

"Reconciliation and the Size of the Budget" (with Keith Krehbiel) in The American Journal of Political Science, 1987.

"Bargaining and Agenda Formation in Legislatures" (with David Baron), The American Economic Review, vol. 77, no. 2, May 1987, pp. 303-309.

"The Structure of Agency Decision Processes," Congress: Structure and Policy, Mathew McCubbins and Terry Sullivan (eds.), (Cambridge University Press, 1987).

"Democracy and Social Choice" (with Jules Coleman), Ethics, vol. 97, no. 1, October 1986, pp. 6-25. Reprinted in Jules Coleman (ed.), Markets, Morals and the Law, (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1988).

"Congressional Influence on Administrative Agencies: A Case Study of Telecommunications Policy" (with Charles Shipan), Congress Reconsidered (4th edition) Larry Dodd and Bruce Oppenheimer (eds.), Congressional Quarterly Press, 1989.

"Congress and Telecommunications Policy: The Role of Committees" (with Charles Shipan) in New Directions in Telecommunications Policy, Paula Newberg (ed.), (Duke University Press, 1989).

"The Power to Propose" (with David Baron) in Models of Strategic Choice in Politics, Peter Ordeshook (ed.), (University of Michigan Press, 1989).

"Bargaining in Legislatures" (with David Baron), American Political Science Review, Dec. 1989.

Review of Peter Temin with Louis Galambos, The Fall of the Bell System, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, in Information, Economics and Policy, vol. 4, No. 1, 1989/90, pp. 88-92.

"Information and the Electoral Process," in Information and Democratic Processes, John Ferejohn and James Kuklinski (eds.), (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1990).

"Congressional Influence on Bureaucracy" (with Charles Shipan), Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, vol. 6, 1990.

"Linking Constituency Opinion and Senate Voting Scores: A Hybrid Explanation" (with Catherine Shapiro, David Brady, and Richard Brody), Legislative Studies Quarterly, Nov. 1990.

"Rationality and Interpretation: Parliamentary Elections in Early Stuart England" in The Economic Approach to Politics, Kristen Monroe (ed.), New York: Harper Collins, 1991. Reprinted (in Japanese) in Leviathan: The Japanese Journal of Political Science, vol. 9, 1991, pp. 154-185, and (in Spanish) in Foro Internacional, vol. 31, no. 4, 1991, El Colegio de Mexico.

"Welfare Policy in the 1980s," in Politics and Economics of Public Policy in the 1980s, Alberto Alesina (ed.), NBER Publications, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, November 1991).

"The Personal Vote in Canada" (with Brian Gaines), Representation, Integration and Political Parties in Canada, Herman Bakvis (ed.), (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1991).

"The Article I, Section 7 Game" (with William Eskridge, Jr.), Georgetown Law Journal, vol. 80, no. 3, Feb. 1992.

"The Limitation of Statutes: Strategic Statutory Interpretation" (with Barry Weingast), Georgetown Law Journal, vol. 80, no. 3, Feb. 1992.

"Making the Deal Stick" (with William Eskridge), Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, vol. 8, no. 1, March 1992.

"The Economics and Politics of Administrative Law and Procedures: An Introduction" (with Pablo Spiller), Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, vol. 8, no. 1, March 1992.

"Positive Theory of Statutory Interpretation" (with Barry Weingast) International Review of Law and Economics, vol. 12, 1992, pp. 263-279.

"Structure and Ideology: Change in Parliament in Early Stuart England," in Ideas and Foreign Policy, Judith Goldstein and Robert Keohane (eds.), Ithaca, (NY: Cornell University Press, 1993).

"Must Preferences be Respected in a Democracy?" in The Idea of Democracy, David Copp, Jean Hampton, & John Roemer (eds.), (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1993).

"The Spatial Model and Elections," in Information, Participation, and Choice, Bernard Grofman (ed.), (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1993).

"Politics, Interpretation and Rule of Law" (with William Eskridge), NOMOS, vol. 36, (New York University Press, 1994), pp. 265-296.

"Rational Choice and Social Theory" (with Debra Satz), Journal of Philosophy, vol. 91, no. 2, Feb. 1994, pp. 71-87.

"La theorie du choix rationnel est-elle une theorie psychologique?" (with Debra Satz), Iconomie, Andri Orlean (ed.), (Paris: Presse Universitaires de France, April 1994).

"The Development of the Spatial Theory of Elections," James Farr and John Dryzek (eds.), Political Science and History, (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

"Law, Legislation and Positive Political Theory," Jeffrey Banks and Erik Hanushek (eds.), Modern Political Economy, (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

"The Elastic Commerce Clause: A Political Theory of American Federalism" (with William Eskridge), Vanderbilt Law Review, vol. 47, 1994, pp. 1355-1400.

"Reforming the Initiative Process," Bruce E. Cain and Roger G. Noll (eds.), Constitutional Reform in California: Making State Government More Effective and Responsive, (Institute of Governmental Studies Press, 1995).

"Virtual Logrolling: How the Court, Congress, and the States Multiply Rights," (with William Eskridge), Southern California Law Review,1996.

"Politics of European Federalism," (with Geoffrey Garrett and Jenna Bednar), International Review of Law and Economics, 1996

"Unification, Universalism and Rational Choice Theory" (with Debra Satz), Critical Review, 1995.

"Choix Rationnel et Psychologie Ordinaire," (with Debra Satz), Les Limites de la Rationalitie, Tome 1: Rationalite, Ethique et Cognition, (Paris: Editions La Decouverte, 1997).

"Rational Choice and Folk Psychology," (with Debra Satz), in progress.

"A Political Theory of Federalism" (with Jenna Bednar and William Eskridge), forthcoming in Constitutions and Constitutionalism.

"The Politics of Imperfection," Law and Social Inquiry, 1998

"Economic Theories of Politics and Statutory Interpretation," (with William Eskridge) forthcoming in the New Palgrave Encyclopedia of Economics and Law.

"A Tale of Two Congresses: Social Policy in the Clinton Years," forthcoming in Social Policy in the Clinton Years, Margaret Weir (ed), 1997.

"Accountability and Authority: Toward a Political Theory of Electoral Accountability," forthcoming in a volume edited by Adam Przeworski.

Constitutions and Constitutionalism (edited with Jack Rakove and Jonathan Riley) forthcoming with Cambridge University Press, 1998.

"Cooperation and Time," in Self-Deception and Paradoxes of Rationality, (J.P. Dupuy, ed.), Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 1998.