Peter Ordeshook
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Peter Ordeshook is currently a Mary Stillman Harkness Professor of Political Science at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. He received his Ph.D in Political Science from University of Rochester and a Bachelor's of Science from MIT where he studied engineering, economics and politics. He has authored many influential papers and books, such as "The Calculus of Voting" (co-authored with William H. Riker). He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
[edit] Research interest
Election processes, international relations, and applications of game theory to politics.
[edit] Research statement
- To study voting generally in Central Europe and the states of the former USSR, with specific interest in developing methodologies for the detection and measurement of electoral fraud.
- To refine a new methodology for aggregate data analysis. In collaboration with M. Myagkov and mathematicians at the Institute for Open Economy in Moscow, he has developed an extension of the Chambers-Steel model, which is currently being tested with artificial data.
- Completion of his manuscript with M. Klochko using agent-based modeling that focuses on endogenous time preferences and endogenous social networks. Upon completion of this manuscript the various models will be applied to other parameters of individual choice and to alternative specifications of network transition structures.
[edit] Selected publications
Lessons for Citizens of a New Democracy. Edward Elgar, 1997. A Primer in Political Theory. Routlege Press, 1992. Constitutional Secessions Clauses (with Yan Chen), Constitutional Political Economy. 1994
