Professor of Politics; Chair of Politics
Ph.D. 1981, Liverpool; M.A. 1972, Essex; BA (Hons) 1970, Essex.

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Research Interests:

Analytical, computational and empirical accounts of political competition and decision-making.

Selected Works:

Working Papers:

• Party competition: an agent-based model (with Ernest Sergenti). A book-length manuscript that develops a dynamic agent based spatial model of multi-party competition. This deals, among other things, with: interactions between party leaders using different decision rules; endogenous birth and death of political parties; satisficing behavior by party leaders; evolutionary stability of combinations of decision rules; effects of party leaders’ non-policy valence; effects of party leaders who value personal policy preferences as well as increased party vote share; empirical patterns of dynamic party competition; rigorous characterization of the output of computational models. A current version of the full manuscript is available in from the authors.

Recent and Forthcoming Articles

• Treating Words as Data with Error: Uncertainty in Text Statements of Policy Positions. (with Kenneth Benoit and Slava Mikhavlov.  American Journal of Political Science, 53:2, 95–513. 

• Participation Bias, Durable Opinion Shifts and Sabotage through Withdrawal in Citizens’ Juries. (with Damien French). Political Studies, 57, 422–450.

• (with Macartan Humphreys) Spatial models, cognitive metrics and majority rule equilibria. British Journal of Political Science (forthcoming)
  

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