EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, 1995. M.S. Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, 1993. Diploma (M.A.) Political Economy, Moscow State University, 1989.DISSERTATION: Electoral Institutional Design
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT:
2014 鈥 present Professor of Political Science and Economics (Joint Title), 香港六合彩资料 University 2020 - present Director of COVID--19 Policy Responce Lab, 香港六合彩资料 2007 鈥 2014 Associate Professor of Political Science, 香港六合彩资料 2008 鈥 2012 Associate Professor of Economics (Joint Title), 香港六合彩资料 2004 鈥 2007 Assistant Professor of Political Science, 香港六合彩资料 2004 鈥 2005 Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, California Institute of Technology 2003 鈥 2004 Fellow at the Micro鈥慖ncentives Research Center, Duke University 2003 鈥 2004 Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Duke University 1996 鈥 1997 Visiting Assistant Researcher in Social Science, Department of Politics and Society, University of California, Irvine 1995 鈥 2003 Research Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Washington University in St. Louis 1994 鈥 2003 Assistant Professor of Political Science, Washington University in St. LouisPUBLICATIONS:
Books:
1. Formal Modeling in Social Science (with Carol Mershon). University of Michigan Press. September 3, 2019. 256 pp. Hardcover: ISBN: 978-0472074235; Paperback: ISBN: 978-0472054237; ASIN: B07X3BT8QL
2. Parties and Party System Change in Legislatures Worldwide: Moving Outside the Electoral Arena (with Carol Mershon) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. October 5, 2013. 240 pages 17 b/w illus. 28 tables. Hardcover: ISBN:9780521765831; Paperback: 978-1107569607; ASIN: B00CMNTL1W.
3. Micro-Foundations of Federal Institutional Stability. Special Issue of: Constitutional Political Economy. 16(2). June 2005.
4. Designing Federalism: A Theory of Self-Sustainable Federal Institutions. (with
Mikhail Filippov and Peter C. Ordeshook). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2004.
384 pages 10 line diagrams 17 tables. Hardcover: ISBN: 0521816181; Paperback: ISBN:
0521016487; Printed access edition: ISBN: 978-0511610875; ASIN: B01DM27URI.
Honorable Mention for the William H. Riker Prize of the Political Economy Section
of the American Political Science Association, September 2005.
Articles in refereed journals:
5. (with Andrei Zhirnov, Frank Giannelli, Michael Catalano, Olivia Catalano). 2021. American journal of preventive medicine, October 11, 2021. DOI:
6. (with Julie VanDusky-Allen, Andrei Zhirnov, Abdul Basit Adeel, Michael Catalano, Olivia Catalano, Frank Gianelli, Ezgi Muftuoglu, Dina Rosenberg, Mehmet Halit Sezgin and Tianyi Zhao). 2021. Frontiers Political Science - Elections and Representation. DOI:
7. 鈥淐OVID-19 Policy Response and the Rise of the Sub-national Governments.鈥 (with Abdul Basit Adeel, Michael Catalano, Olivia Catalano, Grant Gibson, Ezgi Muftuoglu, Tara Riggs, Mehmet Halit Sezgin, Naveed Tahir, Julie VanDusky-Allen, Tianyi Zhao, Andrei Zhirnov. 2020. Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de politiques 46(4). DOI: .
8. 鈥淚nstitutional Origins of Protective COVID-19 Public Health Policy Responses: Informational and Authority Redundancies and Policy Stringency鈥 (with Andrei Zhirnov, Julie VanDusky-Allen, Abdul Basit Adeel, Michael Catalano, Olivia Catalano, Frank Giannelli, Ezgi Muftuoglu, Tara Riggs, Mehmet Halit Sezgin, Naveed Tahir, Tianyi Zhao). Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy. 1, 4 (2020)7.
9. 鈥淭raditional Authority and Bargaining for Legitimacy in Dual Legitimacy Systems鈥 (with Carol Mershon). Journal of Modern African Studies. 57, 2 (2019), pp. 289鈥312.8.
10. 鈥淎ccounting for Heterogeneous Private Risks In The Provision of Public Goods: The Controversy of Compulsory Contracting Institutions in Horizontal Hydrofracturing鈥 (with Benjamin Farrer and Robert Holahan). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 133(1):138-150. January 2017.
12. 鈥淭he Micro-Foundations of Party System Stability in Legislatures.鈥 (with Carol Mershon) Journal of Politics. 75(4) October 2013.
13. 鈥淩isks and Constraints of Political Modernization in Russia: The Federal Problem,鈥 (with Irina Busygina and Mikhail Filippov) Perspectives on European Politics and Society 12(1): 1-19. 2011
14. "Surviving Structural Change: Electoral Reform in the Face of Franchise Expansion" with Barbara Kinsey. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 20: 303-327, 2008.
15. 鈥淧arliamentary Cycles and Party Switching in Legislatures鈥 with Carol Mershon. Comparative Political Studies, 41: 99-127, 2008.
16. 鈥淩epresentative Democracy as a Necessary Condition for the Survival of a Federal Constitution 鈥 with Kevin Roust. Publius: the Journal of Federalism, 37(2): 244-61, 2007.
17. 鈥淢ass-Elite Equilibrium of Federal Constitutional Legitimacy.鈥 Constitutional Political Economy, 16(2): 125-41. 2005.
18. "Endogenous Selection of Institutions and Their Exogenous Effects," Constitutional Political Economy. 14(3): 191-212, 2003.
19. 鈥淕aining Legislative Control through Strategic District Nomination: The Case of the Russian Left in 1995,鈥 Legislative Studies Quarterly. XXVII: 635-57, 2002.
20. 鈥淗eresthetical Maneuvering on the U.S. Supreme Court,鈥 with Lee Epstein, Journal of Theoretical Politics. 14(1): 93-122, 2002.
21. 鈥淐omparing Judicial Selection Systems,鈥 with Lee Epstein and Jack Knight. William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 10(1): 7-36, 2001.
22. 鈥淭he Role of Constitutional Courts in the Establishment and Maintenance of Democratic Systems of Government,鈥 with Lee Epstein and Jack Knight, Law and Society Review, 35(1): 117-64, 2001.
23. 鈥淎 Survey of Post-Communist Electoral Institutions: 1990-1998,鈥 Electoral Studies, 18(3): 397-409, 1999.
24. 鈥淎symmetric Bi-Lateral Bargaining in the New Russian Federation: A Path-Dependence Explanation,鈥 with Mikhail Filippov, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 31(1): 61-76, 1999.
25. 鈥淧arty Fragmentation and Presidential Elections in Post-Communist Democracies,鈥 with Mikhail Filippov and Peter Ordeshook, Constitutional Political Economy, 10: 1-24, 1999.
26. 鈥淔ederalism and Constitutional Design,鈥 with Peter Ordeshook, The Journal of Democracy, 8(1): 27-42, 1997.
27. "If Hamilton and Madison Were Merely Lucky, What Hope is there for Russian Federalism?" with Peter Ordeshook, Constitutional Political Economy, 6(2): 107-26, 1995.
28. "Ethnic Heterogeneity, District Magnitude, and the Number of Parties," with Peter Ordeshook, American Journal of Political Science, 38(1): 100-23, 1994.
Refereed book chapters and series:
29. "Constitutional and Institutional Structural Determinants of Policy Responsiveness to Protect Citizens from Existential Threats: COVID-19 and beyond" (with Zhirnov, Andrey; Adeel, Abdul Basit; Catalano, Michael; Catalano, Olivia; Chu, Hyoungrohk; Dumond, Garrett K.; Ghincea, Georgian-Marius; Means, Jason; Muftuoglu, Ezgi; Riggs, Tara; Sadykova, Almira; Sezgin, Mehmet Halit; Allen, Julie Vandusky; and Zhao, Tianyi. Working Papers Series. 4. May 2020.
30. "Policy Error and Policy Rescue in COVID-19 Responses in the United States and United Kingdom." (with Catalano, Michael; Chu, Hyoungrohk; Dumond, Garrett K.; Muftuoglu, Ezgi; Ozutemiz, Hasan; Sadykova, Almira; and Riggs, Tara). Working Papers Series. 3. April 2020.
31. 鈥淭he Ouroborous of Political Institutions: Party Rules in Institutional Context鈥 (with William Heller). Citizenship, rights, and cultural belonging Working paper series. no. 101. 香港六合彩资料: 香港六合彩资料. October 2016.
32. 鈥淎utocratic Health versus Democratic Health: Different outcome variables for health as a factor versus health as a right.鈥 In The Political Economy of Social Choices. Gallego, Maria, Schofield, Norman, Eds. Springer (with Dina Rosenberg). 2016.
33. 鈥淒eciding How to Choose the Healthcare System鈥 (with Katri Sieberg). In Advances in Political Economy: Institutions, Modeling and Empirical Analysis. by Norman Schofield, Gonzalo Caballero and Daniel Kselman, Eds. New York: Springer. 2013
34. 鈥淔ederalism is Good for Democracy, Not so Good for Democratization鈥 (with Mikhail Filippov). In Federal Dynamics: Continuity, Change and the Varieties of Federalism. Arthur Benz and Joerg Broschek, eds. Oxford University Press. 2013
35. 鈥淢oving in Time: Legislative Party Switching as Time-Contingent Choice.鈥 (with Carol Mershon) In Norman Schofield and Gonzalo Caballero, eds., Political Economy and Institutions. New York: Springer. 2011
36. 鈥淭iming Matters: Incentives for Party Switching and Stages of Parliamentary Cycle鈥 (with Carol Mershon). in William B. Heller and Carol Mershon, eds. Political Parties and Legislative Party Switching. Palgrave Macmillan. 2009.
37. 鈥淐ompromising a Long Lasting Transitional Formula,鈥 in Josep Colomer, ed., The Handbook of Electoral System Design. St. Martin Press. 2005.
38."Resolving the Problem of Pre鈥慐lection Coordination: The 1999 Parliamentary Election as Elite Presidential 'Primary,'" in V. Hesli and W. Reisinger, eds., Elections, Parties and the Future of Russia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2003.
39. 鈥淪electing Selection Systems,鈥 (with Lee Epstein and Jack Knight). Judicial Independence at the Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Stephen B. Burbank and Barry Friedman, eds. American Academy of Political and Social Science/Sage Publications. pp. 191鈥226. 2002.
40. 鈥淚nstitutions and Coalition-Building in Post-Communist Transitions,鈥 in A. Reynolds, ed., The Architecture of Democracy: Constitutional Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy. Oxford University Press. pp. 55-78. 2002.
41. 鈥淓nsuring a Stable Federal State: Economics or Political Institutional Design,鈥 (with Mikhail Filippov and Peter Ordeshook) In Rules and Reason: Perspectives on Constitutional Political Economy, Pietro Navarra, Ram Mudambi, and Giuseppe Sobbrio, eds. Cambridge University Press. pp. 207-36. 2001.
42. The Duverger law without two-partism. St. Louis, Mo. : Washington University, School of Business and Center in Political Economy, 1997. HB31 .P64 v.193.
43. 鈥淎ssessing the extent of the endogeneity problem in institutional selection: The case of East European election laws.鈥 Political economy working paper. St. Louis: Washington University, Center in Political Economy, 1998). ASIN: B0006R1M9K.
44. Russia, Federalism, and Political Stability (with Peter C Ordeshook). College Park: Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector, University of Maryland at College Park. 1995/4.
45. Russia, Federalism, and Political Stability, (with Peter Ordeshook) California Institute of Technology, Social Science Working Paper 882, March 1995.
46. Equilibria with Unrestricted Entry in Multimember District Elections (under SNTV), California Institute of Technology, Social Sciences Working Paper 780, March 1994. ASIN: B0006PDDE4.
47. Competition in Plurality Elections in Multimember Districts (Evidence from Taiwan and Japan), California Institute of Technology, Social Sciences Working Paper 781, March 1994.