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 Journal of Theoretical Politics (2005), the European
Journal of Political Research (2005), British Journal of Political
Science (2005), Political Studies (2003),Politics and Society (2002),
the American Political Science Review (2003), the American Journal of
Political Science and The Review of Economic Studies. He has also
published in and is a member of the editorial board of Social Choice
and Welfare. 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 on the Spatial Model of Electoral Politics will be published in
the near future.
He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April 2005.
Republican and Democrat Coalitions (with Gary Miller) view paper
Elections and Activist Coalitions in the US (AJPS,2007)with Gary Miller view paper
A
Model of Political Competition with Activists applied to elections in
Argentina , 1985-1995.” (with Guido Cataife). Mathematical Social
Science, 53 2007): 213-231 view paper
Dred Scott and the election of Lincoln in 1860 view paper
