Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University

John Patty

Assistant Professor, Program on Political Economy

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John Patty's expertise is in formal political theory and computational modeling. His research interests encompass behavioral models of decision making and political institutions. This year (2005-2006), he will teach an undergraduate course entitled ""Strategic Models in Political Economy"" (Government 1015), the first semester of the graduate formal theory sequence (GOV 2005), and a graduate seminar, ""Formal Models in American Politics"" (Government 2012). He has published work on formal models of elections and voter behavior in Electoral Studies, Games and Economic Behavior, Public Choice, and Social Choice and Welfare. His current work includes an examination of the effect of partisanship on roll call voting in the US House, the implications of incommensurability on electoral strategy, a rhetoric-based theory of deliberation, a theory of legislative scheduling in Congress (with Elizabeth Maggie Penn), and an empirical and theoretical study of bureaucratic design (with Frederick Boehmke and Sean Gailmard). An Assistant Professor of Political Economy and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University from 2000-2005, he received his Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the California Institute of Technology in 2001.