Profile

Fields: Works on comparative political institutions; models of participation, elections, and policy-making; revealed political preferences and scaling techniques; and numerical methods tailored to mathematical models of politics

Recent publications include "A priori bounds on legislative bargaining agreements," American Journal of Political Science (2023); "One-dimensional scaling without apologies," Journal of Politics (2022); "Generalized medians and a political center," Social Choice and Welfare (2022); and "National electoral thresholds and disproportionality" (with Miguel Rueda), Political Analysis (2021). Teaches game theory, positive political theory, and comparative institutions.

Courses taught

• PSCI/INTR 264 Comparative Political Institutions
• PSCI 288 Game Theory
• PSCI 356 Political Institutions and Behavior
• PSCI 388 Models of Democratic Politics
• PSCI 408 Positive Political Theory II
• PSCI 555 Democratic Political Processes
• PSCI 556 Political Institutions and Behavior
• PSCI 561 Revealed Political Preferences
• PSCI 584 Game Theory
• PSCI 585 Dynamic Models: Structure, Computation and Estimation
• PSCI 587 Structural Modeling and Estimation
• PSCI 588 Bargaining Theory and Applications
• PSCI 588 Models of Democratic Politics