Tasos Kalandrakis
- Professor of Political Science
PhD, UCLA, 2000
- Office Location
- Harkness 336
- Telephone
- 585-275-4291
- Web Address
- Website
- Office Hours
- T 12:30-2pm
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